Tucker: 805 books

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy...

The Forgettors Starfall. That one catastrophic event changed everything for people in the high city. In fact, it was so devastating and painful that people found a way to forget it. But when one young girl refuses to have her memories erased, refuses to have them discarded, will she be allowed to keep...

Set in the far future after the world has been overtaken by a series of catastrophic events, this is the first in an epic fantasy trilogy full of heroism and sacrifice, romance and tragedy, greed and redemption. Blan and her allies, those who aspire to a higher civilisation for mankind, struggle against...

Alfred, son of Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, ran. Behind him, the takers of his land and kingdom fanned out, searching for the fleeing king ... Buried in AD 899 as the king of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great’s bones were thought to have ultimately been moved...

Not all pirates are men, nor are all damsels in distress. Here is the true saga of Irish born Anne Bonny, "Golden Age" pirate of the 18th Century Caribbean. Hollywood has tried numerous times to reproduce Anne, currently in Starz Black Sails, even the video game Assassins Creed, and...

For half a century the St. Louis Browns were nothing short of spectacular ... when it came to futility. Whatever promise or hope or grandeur dreams held by the franchise and its fans after a second place finish in its inaugural season in St. Louis was quickly replaced by this abysmal reality: the...

From the author of The I Hate Tofu Cookbook: Tips and recipes that set the record straight on the leafy green everyone loves to hate. There are a lot of reasons to hate kale. It’s an upstart. It’s painfully hip. It’s healthy—almost too healthy. Kale will never be bacon. But if...

A tipsy confession of infidelity during their engagement hadn't been the best start to Sarah's marriage. Blurting it out on their honeymoon wasn't the best timing, either. Still, how could he complain? It had taken Paul O'Brian five years to propose, and even then he'd made only occasional appearances...

The classification and distribution of the languages of the Northern Bantu Borderland between the Great Lakes and the Indian Ocean have been given in Volume 1 of The Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, where however, the linguistic evidence on which the classification rested was not...

Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian...

The northern limit of the Bantu languages is one of the important linguistic boundaries of Africa and this and the subsequent 3 volumes provide an invaluable resource which delimits the frontier. Since a number of the languages investigated had not hitherto been recorded, while with others the published...

Rainmaker takes you on adventures around the world, universe, galaxies and beyond. Children learn to appreciate colors of the world. Rainmaker is action, adventure, excitement and is beautifully illustrated.

Part history, part biography, this book describes the issues that produced the passionate activism of the 1960s and the campaigns waged at Princeton University by Students for a Democratic Society, the most important radical organization on campuses at the time. The author traces the lives of nine...

Winner of the 2013 Gival Press Poetry Award "Whether he is speaking of (as) Wile E. Coyote metaphorically, or speaking as a man who jumped out of airplanes (not for fun) and fired and was fired upon, or when he is speaking his remarkable love poems, you know you are hearing (I'm purposefully using 'speaking'...