M Scott: 440 books

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The Guerrilla Hunters

Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

by Daniel E. Sutherland, Adam Domby, Andrew Fialka
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
Book cover of Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)

Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)

History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo

by Charles C. Royce, Clay MacCauley, Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

"Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux,...
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After Montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
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Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

by Rosemary Ashton, Tony Bareham, Michael Caines
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015

This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.
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The Everything Mafia Book

True-life accounts of legendary figures, infamous crime families, and nefarious deeds

by Scott M Dietche
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009

"Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkableùand often sordidùworld of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia. From Al...
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Feminist Activist Ethnography

Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America

by Mary K. Anglin, Khiara M. Bridges, Elizabeth Chin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
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Freedom Papers

An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

by Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family’s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War.
Book cover of Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self
by David R. Hawkins, M.D./Ph.D., Jeffrey Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

How does one traverse the spiritual landscape to move beyond suffering to experience the peace and love of God, to dissolve illusion and realize the state of enlightenment? In this collection of inspiring passages from David R. Hawkins’s work, the reader is reminded of the illusory nature of the...
Book cover of The Ohio Valley Jazz Festival
by Scott M. Santangelo
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017

Cincinnati, Ohio, might have seemed like an unlikely choice to host the nation's largest annual R&B concert, but thanks to local promoter Dino Santangelo, the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival would become the "Granddaddy of Them All." The first festival was held in 1962 at the Carthage Fairgrounds, but the...
Book cover of China: Its History and Culture
by W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004

“A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China.” —Michael Gasster, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University Newly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture, Fourth...
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Cigar City Mafia

A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld

by Scott M. Deitche
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005

Bootleggers, gambling, ringleaders, arsonist, narcotics dealers and gang murders —a variety of characters flourished in the era known as Prohibition, and Tampa, Florida was where thye battled for supremacy of criminal underworld.
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Key States, High Stakes

Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

by Charles S. Bullock III, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
Book cover of The Collapse of Evolution
by Scott M. Huse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997

One of the most successful books on the flaws in evolutionary theory. The third edition includes two new chapters on astronomy and archaeology.
Book cover of The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Justice
by Joyce A. Baugh, John D. Burrow, Mark S. Hurwitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape...
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