Keith: 3326 books
by Donald Keith
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Taking along the many tough and uncompromising lessons learned together with the indispensable soul-saving brand of mining humour, Donald Keith stepped into the outside world of private commerce and worldwide travel—all of which was completely alien to him.
True Travel Tales presents stories...
Bombing the Marshall Islands
A Cold War Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle...
Early Civilizations of the Old World
The Formative Histories of Egypt, The Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case the ecological and economic background to growth, geographical factors, cross-cultural intersection and the rise...
Upon the Fields of Battle
Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of...
Delaying the Dream
Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations...
Battle Exhortation
The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle...
Portraits of 'the Whiteman'
Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1979
'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans...
by Keith Dorricott
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
In this practical and Bible-based book, Keith Dorricott outlines a journey that God wants every Christian to embark upon, one that involves our own spirit and the Holy Spirit and that can result in a final destination of victorious Christian living!
The Journey of Spirituality
Understanding...
The Scar That Binds
American Culture and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor...
Speak Freely
Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Why colleges and universities live or die by free speech
Free speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate. In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage vigorous free...
Loyal Unto Death
Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in Balkan history, Keith Brown focuses on social and...
Sustaining Southern Identity
Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners. A journalist, lecturer, radio broadcaster, and teacher of renown, Freeman wrote and spoke...
War Isn't the Only Hell
A New Reading of World War I American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army’s unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men—except, notoriously, African Americans—to positions and ranks...
by Keith Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Join the revellers in a bawdy ‘world of men’, between Christmas and New Year, as a somnambulist chameleon, a dancing bear and ten lords-a-leaping prance into a bag of glees and good tidings at the retro-Hustler’s Ball.
Swirling through music, memories of childhood, places, teenage years,...