David Major: 28 books
The Syntax of City Space
American Urban Grids
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical division of the land. However, other cities of the world also began as planned towns with geometric layouts so American cities are not unique. Why did the...
by Winston Yu, Mozaharul Alam, Ahmadul Hassan
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional...
100 One-Night Reads
A Book Lover's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Readers everywhere know that nothing soothes the spirit like sinking into a really good book. If you're one of that happy band, you'll quickly recognize the authors of this inspired reading guide as kindred spirits. Here David and John Major have chosen one hundred books that can each be delightfully...
Shoreline of Infinity 7
Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #7
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Stories
Something Fishy—David L ClementsMessage in a Bottle—Davyne DeSyeAn Infinite Number of Me—Dan Grace3.8 Missions—Katie GrayAnyone Can ask About Enhancement—Terry JackmanThe Walls of Tithonium Chasma—Tim MajorQuantum Flush—Daniel SouleBrother’s Keeper—Shannon Connor Winward
That...
The People's Victory
Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
Countering Heedless Jihad
Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Using concepts that are not already a part of the militant discourse as a way to undermine extremism, Countering Heedless Jihad explores a stratagem aimed at defusing jihadist ideology. It explains how to counteract idealist theology using concepts from it, borrowing ideas from some revered Islamic...
by James A. Stone, David P. Shoemaker, Major Nicholas R. Dotti
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In September 2004, the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory board appointed by the Director of National Intelligence, initiated the Study on Educing Information (EI). This study is an ongoing effort to review what is known scientifically about interrogation and other forms of human intelligence...
by David Lehman, Major Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology...
Operation Medusa
The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa."
In the summer...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Old Habits Die Hard
The Network and Other Spies
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Major Neil Olaf has been defending his countryand himselffor over eight years. Neil is a Military Intelligence Officer, the third in his family after his uncle and now deceased father. But just as he prepares to face a crossroads in his life, everything goes terribly wrong.
Neil is on top of...
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
Air-Mech-Strike
Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
This book outlines how to reorganize the U.S. Army into a fully 2 and 3-Dimensional maneuver capable, ground force with terrain-agile, armored fighting vehicles sized to rapidly deploy by fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft to the scene of world conflicts and strike at the heart of freedom‚s enemies....
Sting of the Scorpion
The Inside Story of the Long Range Desert Group
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Long Range Desert Group was Britain's original Special Force in the Western Desert long before the SAS burst onto the scene. Sting of the Scorpion is the exclusive, authorised, inside story of the tough LRDG raiders of the Second World War, drawn from the unpublished records of the famous force....
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