Hall: 2949 books
by Charles Winslow Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This early work by Charles W. Hall is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a fictional story of heroism during the British war with Spain in the eighteenth century. On the 19th of October, 1739, war was declared between England and Spain, and the following year was one...
Home of the Brave
Honoring the Unsung Heroes in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
They are nineteen of the most highly decorated soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the United States military, and yet most Americans don't even know their names. In this riveting, intimate account, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Wynton C. Hall tell stories of jaw-dropping...
Tragedy Offstage
Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they...
Cyberwar
How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. In Cyberwar,...
Clear Case of Genius
Room 40's Code-Breaking Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In 1933, the Admiralty banned "Blinker" Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence—the pinnacle of the world's secret intelligence...
Roman Berytus
Beirut in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Examining the numerous primary sources, including inscriptions, religions, histories, literary references, legal codes, and archaeological reports, Linda Jones Hall presents a composite history of late antique Berytus - from its founding as a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, to its development...
Deployed
The Survival Guide for Families at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Wondering what you are in for as you move to your first military base, or as you try to recover from numerous deployments? Deployed is the perfect solution for every member of a military family who wants a healthy family. From the time you finish boot camp to the time you return from your last deployment,...
Mapping Applied Linguistics
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students...
by Joan Kelly Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful insights into the nature of language acquisition and expression. In this volume, Joan Kelly Hall gives a perspective...
Zamumo's Gifts
Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy...
Books to Bullets... in Defiance of Northern Propaganda!
A History of the 46Th North Carolina Infantry, Csa
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Over 2,000 men were recruited for this regiment from the counties of Robeson, Rowan, Warren, Richmond, Granville, Moore, Randolph, Sampson, and Catawba, throughout 1861-1865! The 46th North Carolina persevered over three years of unbelievable hardship valorously, and under constant threat of death!...
by Jennie Hall
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Lavishly illustrated with more than 90 spectacular new color photographs, plus nearly 75 original illustrations
this anthology will take you to “lost cities” around the world -- from Pompeii to Chichen-Itza to Mycenae to Machu-Picchu to Tiahuanaco. You’ll meet ancient Greek bakers and American...
by Doug Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
The author recounts his family history including an ancestor who fought at the Battle of Waterloo and another who was a veteran of the Crimean War. His maternal grandfather was a veteran of the First World War and his father a veteran of the Second World War having served with the Royal Canadian Regiment...
by M.K. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
It is the uplifting tale of an overweight alley cat who suffers from extreme loneliness, isolation, undesired obesity and low self esteem. A negative and dark life perception clouds the cat’s life and creates a less than positive outlook of himself and his environment. But the cat is given a better...