Geoffrey: 1373 books
Migrants and the Courts
A Century of Trial and Error?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Written in a lively and engaging style from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with migrants. The chapters reflect on changes in the laws and rules of migration on an international and regional basis and the impact on the parties, administration,...
by Geoffrey Greatrex, Hugh Elton, the assistance of Lucas McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity examines the transformations that took place in a wide range of genres, both literary and non-literary, in this dynamic period. The Christianisation of the Roman empire and the successor kingdoms had a profound impact on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature,...
Dream It! Screw It!
30 Years of Rejected Disney Park Ideas by Imagineer Dipp Disney
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Disney theme park Imagineers think up hundreds of ideas for rides and attractions that never get used. But no Imagineer has created more terrible and rejected ideas than Dipp Disney. Walt's cousin was a sloppy drunk, a complete idiot, and a lovable showman, whose 7000 attraction ideas never saw the light...
by Geoffrey Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book is your ultimate Leonard Nimoy resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Leonard Nimoy's whole picture right away. Get countless...
Cain's Blood
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
When clones of infamous serial killers escape from a secret government facility, it’s up to a former Army Ranger to stop them…with the help of a teenage killer clone.
The DNA of the world’s most notorious serial killers—including Ted Bundy, The Son of Sam, and The Boston Strangler—has...
by Geoffrey Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
This is the only encyclopedia of the social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English,...
An Encyclopedia of Swearing
The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English,...
Eisenhower’s Pursuit Of Strategy:
The Importance Of Understanding The Influence Of Leadership Styles On Strategic Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Eisenhower preferred to build consensus for his military and national strategies by using multiple communication techniques to convey his intent. If consensus was not achieved, though, and his intent was not carried out he would aggressively move to eliminate the source of friction. This monograph...
The First World War (1)
The Eastern Front 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This book unravels the complicated and tragic events of the Eastern Front in the First World War. The author details Russia's sudden attack on German forces, despite her inadequate resources. A crushing defeat at Tannenberg was followed by Germany inflicting humiliation after humiliation on desperate...
Plumer
The Soldier's General
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Sir Herbert Plumer stood out as an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white hair, white moustache, pot-belly. But his appearance belies the fact that he was one of the best-performing and best-regarded officers on the Allied side. Plumer's crowning glories were the attack on Messines Ridge...
Understanding Victory: Naval Operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands
Naval Operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Providing a unique assessment of naval strategy and historic outcomes across centuries of warfare, Understanding Victory: Naval Operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands presents four case studies that examine each ship-based battle narrative to expose and analyze the factors that contributed to...
by Geoffrey Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Christina Preston is an American exchange student who has gone against the advice of her Texas billionaire father and decided to attend a prestigious college in Santa Marta, the capital of Magdalena, Colombia. But when masked gunmen storm the university tour bus en route to Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino...
by Geoffrey C. Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, located at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. East Timor was among the last of colonial territories to become independent, and it actually had to be liberated twice. First, after more than four centuries...
Between Stalin and Hitler
Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist...