Hess: 433 books
Smart Growth
Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that all companies either "grow or die." Introducing a research-based growth model called "Smart Growth," Edward D. Hess challenges this...
Big Foot Stole My Wife
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Eleven stories of jealousy, lunacy, and murder told in the uproarious style of Joan Hess, the creator of Maggody, Arkansas.
As he waits in the checkout line at Consumers Market, Jay Jay Anderson is certain of one thing: His wife, Cookie, deserves to die. In the tabloids, he finds a story about...
The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess's definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes:
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula...
The Rural Modern
Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception...
Education Unbound
The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
What if it’s the system that’s the problem? What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating new solutions built on an elusive combination of the right standards, pedagogy, and assessments but removing entrenched bureaucratic barriers and rethinking restrictive norms and routines?...
Representing the Good Neighbor
Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Winner of the 2015 Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society In Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the twentieth century. Hers is the first study...
Civil War Infantry Tactics
Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends...
Braxton Bragg
The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the...
by Stephen Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S. commercial news organizations. His study...
Lee's Tar Heels
The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina's best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew's men...
The Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy....
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War
The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to...
Dear Miss Demeanor
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Agatha Award-winning author Joan Hess, the prolific creator of the Claire Malloy and Maggody mysteries, is beloved for her clever sleuths, quirky characters, and her ingenious plotting. We invite you to enjoy this delightful Claire Malloy mystery, and to discover why Sharyn McCrumb calls Joan Hess...
Caveat Emptor
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Delightfully deadly short fiction from the pen of Joan Hess, creator of Maggody, Arkansas.
Althea is caught in a romance writer’s worst nightmare: She’s been trapped in one of her own melodramatic creations. Around her, strapping men chase after elegant women whose bosoms heave and whose...