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by Phillip Padilla
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Best book on Trey Songz, Bar None. This book is your ultimate resource for Trey Songz. Here you will find the most up-to-date 241 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Trey Songz's Early...
by Lonely Planet, Tim Bewer, Greg Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tempt your tastebuds with pho noodle soup in Vietnam,...
Death at the Little Bighorn
A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisions Made at The Last Stand
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A fresh and fascinating examination of Custer’s Last Stand.
On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke. After dividing his famed 7th Cavalry, he ordered his senior officer, Major Marcus A. Reno, to strike the southern end...
S.A.S. - The Special Air Service
A History Of Britains Elite Forces
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Special Air Service (The SAS) are perhaps the Special Forces Regiment. With an almost unparalled experience and a rich history that is encapsulated by their motto ‘Who Dares Wins’. The story which follows is not of course a complete account of all the deeds of this remarkable regiment. If such...
Puppetmasters
The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2002
The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the...
by Charles Phillip Rider
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The book The Right Wing: the Good, the Bad, and the Crazy discusses the political right in the United States from Prohibition through recent speculation concerning the presidential campaign of 2016. A chapter is devoted to each U.S. President from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Many...
by Stephen Aron, Edward J. Cashin, David Grimsted
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.
Edgar G. Ulmer
Detour on Poverty Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors...
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Text, Performance, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies,...
Shockwaves of Possibility
Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism...
by Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the...
Red Apple
Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom,...
After Montaigne
Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
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...
Kitchener
The Man Behind The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and of Broome, was Britain's last great military hero. his face became known to millions before his death in 1916 because it appeared on the recruiting posters of World War I over the caption 'Your Country Needs You'. Kitchener's ambition was all for...