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Submarine Operational Effectiveness in the 20Th Century
Part One (1900 - 1939)
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
A very new weapons system, the lurking submarine with its self-propelled torpedoes fired from ambush changed the complexion of naval warfare forever. Both warships and merchant ships were at risk. In 1914 U-boats demonstrated their capability to sink major warships.
During 1915 they turned...
Ask the Chief
Backbone of the Navy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Whenever sailors are confronted with 'unsolvable' problems--be it a fouled anchor or paint that won't dry--they often throw up their hands and exclaim, 'We'd better ask the Chief.' That refrain, heard for generations throughout the Navy, is the theme for Jack Leahy's newest book. Written at sea, his...
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
Restorer of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western...
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.
Focusing on...
by Captain John F. O’Kane USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What are the origins of tactical innovation in large, bureaucratic, military systems? This study will provide a detailed analysis of how the German Army in World War One took advantage of innovative tactical methods developed by their junior and non-commissioned officers (NCO) in the field. While...
Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards
A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse--the...
Moody Classics Complete Set
Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
This package includes the entire collection of the Moody Classics Set: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, The Apostolic Fathers, The Incomparable Christ, Orthodoxy, Answers to Prayer, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, Power Through Prayer, The Imitation of...
Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
Volume I: The Years 1914-1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the words of eminent historian José Honório Rodrigues,...
Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945
Repression during World Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime. Such governmental...
Mere Catholicism
What the Catholic Church Teaches and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
C. S. Lewis's masterpiece of Christian apologetics, Mere Christianity, was about Christianity in general, carefully refraining from teaching the doctrine of any particular denomination. Mere Catholicism explains specifically what Catholics believe and practice. Meant for both Catholics who want a...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
by John W. Yolton, F. Gonseth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by John F. Chilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by John F. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009