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Three days in Vietnam: a vet's harrowing story (Xbooks. Total war)
Par John DiConsiglio. 2020
The shape of battle: the art of war : from the Battle of Hastings to D-Day and beyond
Par Allan Mallinson. 2022
"Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context-the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the…
centuries, whether fought with spears and swords or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all, an intensely human affair; human nature doesn't change. So why were certain battles fought as they were? What gave them their shape? Why did they go as they did: victory for one side, defeat for the other? In exploring six significant feats of arms-the war and campaign in which they each occurred, and the factors that determined their precise form and course-|The Shape of Battle| answers these fundamental questions about the waging of war. Eschewing polemics, |The Shape of Battle| doesn't try to argue a case. It lets the narratives-the battles-speak for themselves." -- Provided by publisherEverest 1922: the Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain
Par Mick Conefrey. 2022
"The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full…
of controversy, drama, and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters straight out of an adventure novel. The expedition ended in tragedy when, on their third bid for the top, Mallory's party was hit by an avalanche that left seven men dead. Using diaries, letters, and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey creates a rich, character-driven narrative that explores the motivations and private dramas of the key individuals-detailing their backroom politics and bitter rivalries-who masterminded this epic adventure." -- Provided by publisher"In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of…
the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Drawn from King's intensive field work, the book focuses on the physical, legal, political, and ideological dimensions of repression--in the streets, in courtrooms, in the media, in city hall, and within the movement itself--When Riot Cops Are Not Enough highlights the central role of political legitimacy, both for mass movements seeking to create social change, as well as for governmental forces seeking to control such movements. Although Occupy Oakland was different from other Occupy sites in many respects, King shows how the contradictions it illuminated within both social movement and police strategies provide deep insights into the nature of protest policing generally, and a clear map to understanding the full range of social control techniques used in North America in the twenty-first century." -- Provided by publisherGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
Par Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- Goodreads100 disasters that shaped world history (100 series)
Par Joanne Mattern. 2022
"From the Great Fire of London to the Challenger explosion, earthquakes, crashes, floods, and accidents have been major turning points…
throughout history. In 100 Disasters That Shaped World History, young readers will be introduced to some of the most notorious disasters known to mankind, discovering how these fateful events unfolded-and how they changed the world as we know it." -- Provided by publisherSquirrel Hill: the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting and the soul of a neighborhood
Par Mark Oppenheimer. 2021
A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable…
tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. 2021. Adult. Some strong language. Some violenceA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
Par Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
Hidden history of Jefferson City (Hidden History)
Par Michelle Brooks. 2021
The urge: our history of addiction
Par Carl Erik Fisher. 2022
Great decisions: 2023 (Foreign Policy Association. - Great decisions)
Par Foreign Policy Association. 2023
Review and analysis of eight important international issues. The articles provide background and current data, policy options for the United…
States, recommended readings, discussion questions and opinion ballots that are used in organized Great Decisions discussion groups. Adult. UnratedBiographical profiles of more than one hundred African Americans from colonial times through the twentieth century. Includes portraits of eighteenth-century…
poet Lucy Terry Prince, slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, scientist George Washington Carver, blues singer Bessie Smith, writer James Baldwin, and golfer Tiger Woods, among many others. For grades 6-9. 2001Much has been written of the marriage of President John Adams and his wife Abigail. But few people know of…
the strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody. AdultA wide-ranging examination of why things become popular, why preferences change over time, and how identity plays out in contemporary…
society. In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together the wisdom from history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to demonstrate exactly how individual status seeking creates our cultural ecosystem. Marx examines three fundamental questions: Why do individuals cluster around arbitrary behaviors and take deep meaning from them? How do distinct styles, conventions, and sensibilities emerge? Why do we change behaviors over time and why do some behaviors stick around? The answers then provide new perspectives for understanding the seeming "weightlessness" of internet cultureHistoric towns of Texas: Gonzales, Columbus, Jefferson / v.2 (Historic Towns of Texas #02)
Par Joe Tom Davis. 1995
The second volume in the Historic Towns of Texas series focuses on three of the oldest towns in the Lone…
Star State. Gonzales, founded in 1825, was the site of the first battle of the Texas Revolution. Columbus, established in 1823, has fifty-seven historical markers, including a National Historic District. This town of 4,000 people is the center of a growing tourism trade by virtue of its restoration efforts. Surveyed in 1841, Jefferson became the state's largest inland port. Today only Galveston can claim more historical markers than the sixty-five found in JeffersonAncient Syria: a three thousand year history
Par Trevor Bryce. 2019
"Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world.…
This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what happened many centuries before. Trevor Bryce reveals the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of it's earliest written records in the third millennium BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the 3-4th century AD. Across the centuries, from the Bronze Age to the Rome Era, we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations, enlivening, enriching, and besmirching the annals of Syrian history: Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings; Egyptian pharaohs; Amorite robber-barons; the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar; Persia's Cyrus the Great and Macedon's Alexander the Great; the rulers of the Seleucid empire; and an assortment of Rome's most distinguished and most infamous emperors. All swept across the plains of Syria at some point in her long history. All contributed, in one way or another, to Syria's special, distinctive character, as they imposed themselves upon it, fought one another within it, or pillaged their way through it. But this is not just a history of invasion and oppression. Syria had great rulers of her own, native-born Syrian luminaries, sometimes appearing as local champions who sought to liberate their lands from foreign despots, sometimes as cunning, self-seeking manipulators of squabbles between their overlords. They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of Syria's recorded history. The conclusion looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD: in many ways the opening chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria." -- Provided by publisherThe Mariel Boatlift: a Cuban-American journey
Par Victor Andres Triay. 2019
In 1980, 125,000 Cuban refugees escaped to Florida. Many were reunited with family upon their arrival, but Cuban propaganda followed,…
complicating their new American lives. Personal histories illuminate this exploration of their last forty years. Adult. Some violence and strong languageOr perish in the attempt: the hardship and medicine of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Par David J Peck. 2011
An in-depth examination of the health problems faced by the Lewis and Clark expedition, the common medicinal practices of the…
time, and the types of medical treatments used on the expedition. Adult. Some violence and strong languageBattles of the new republic: a contemporary history of Nepal
Par Prashant Jha. 2014
"|Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal| is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace,…
monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography of the key characters, the book breaks new ground in political writing from the region. With access to the most powerful leaders in the country as well as diplomats, it gives an unprecedented glimpse into Kathmandu's high politics. But this is coupled with ground-level reportage on the lives of ordinary citizens of the hills and the plains, striving for a democratic, just and equitable society. It tracks the hard grind of political negotiations at the heart of the instability in Nepal. It traces the rise of a popular rebellion, its integration into the mainstream, and its steady decline. It investigates Nepal's status as a partly-sovereign country, and reveals India's overwhelming role. It examines the angst of having to prove one's loyalties to one's own country, and exposes the Hindu hill upper-caste dominated power structures. |Battles of the New Republic| is a story of the deepening of democracy, of the death of a dream, and of that fundamental political dilemma--who exercises power, to what end, and for whose benefit." -- Provided by publisherThe great reset: and the war for the world
Par Alex Jones. 2022
"If you really want to know what's happening in the world, this is the one book you must read now.…
Alex Jones is the most censored man on the planet and you should ask yourself why that is. There is a powerful authoritarian takeover in process that is seeking to capture the entire human system and turn it into an artificial factory farm controlled system. We are in a war for the future of the world. In this book, you will hear from the world's elites, from their own mouths, what they are planning for you and your families and you will learn what you can do to fight it. From central bankers, corporate billionaires, and corrupted government officials, global elites have been organizing a historic war on humanity under a trans-humanist, scientific dictatorship. Alex Jones was the first major figure to expose the World Economic Forum's agenda. He has dedicated the last 30 years of his life to studying The Great Reset, conducting tens of thousands of interviews with top-level scientists, politicians, and military officials in order to reverse engineer their secrets and help awaken humanity. The Great Reset: And the War for the World chronicles the history of the global elites' rise to power and reveals how they've captured the governments of the world and financed The Great Reset to pave the way for The New World Order. Once dubbed a conspiracy theory, but now openly promoted by the most powerful corporations and governments, The Great Reset is a planned attempt to redistribute all the world's wealth and power into the hands of banks, corporations, billionaires, and The World Economic Forum. If you read one book in a lifetime, this is it. In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, you will discover from the self-appointed controllers of the planet in their own words, their plan for what they call the final revolution, or The Great Reset. The only way this corporate fascist conspiracy can succeed is if the people of the world are not aware of it. And this book lays out their sinister blueprint and how to stop it. While many great books have been written to help awaken people to this sinister agenda, no author has ever spent as much time and research on The Great Reset as Alex Jones." -- Provided by publisher