Philip: 4665 books
by Philip Kitcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the sharp divide between those who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always valuable...
Awakening the Dreamer
Clinical Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral variations in...
The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1)
Infantry 1799–1814
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn. The College of War calculated that the regular army amounted to 541,741 men, plus 46,601 enrolled cossacks, and at least a further 100,000 irregular cavalry which could be mobilised in time of war. Inspired by the icons...
Frederick the Great's Army (3)
Specialist Troops
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Frederick the Great was not renowned as a great artillery enthusiast, however he did recognise the importance of artillery and greatly expanded the arm. Frederick was also aware of the value of strong fortifications as barriers against the manoeuvres of enemy armies, and as places of security for...
Frederick the Great’s Army (1)
Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The Prussian army of King Frederick II, 'the Great', became so renowned as a result of its campaigns, principally during the Seven Years' War, that it was regarded as a model for many of the other armies of Europe. In this first of two volumes exploring Frederick the Great's splendid army, Philip...
The Shield of Achilles
War, Peace, and the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
"We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons...
Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in...
by Philip Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that are often repeated about...
by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
This title looks at Napoleon's Middle and Young Guard infantry. The seniority of Guard infantry was only established definitely in 1812 by the Guard's chief of personnel, Courtois. The title 'Young Guard' was assigned to the newly-raised regiments in 1809, but the term 'Middle Guard' came into use...
A Fierce Green Fire
The American Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movemand the political, economic, social, and...
The Last Trojan Hero
A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later...
by Philip W. Blood
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for ôcombating banditryö (Bandenbek?mpfung), became the...
What That Pig Said to Jesus
On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Philip Garrison says his book of essays is “in praise of mixed feelings,” particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. His neighborhood is the Columbia Plateau, one of many North American nodes of immigration. Following a meandering, though purposeful...
Black Labor, White Sugar
Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import thousands...