Kaplan: 716 books
Going Ninja
The Eight New Rules for Today's Silent Assassins
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
by 羅柏．D．卡普蘭(Robert D. Kaplan)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 16, 2015
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For the Record
On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive”...
Escort Pilot
Guarding the American Bombers Over Europe in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
“Anyone interested in a unique look at the American-Anglo air war effort after the Battle of Britain, would do well to read Escort Pilot**”** (New York Journal of Books).
Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt . . . in the darkest days of World War II, these legendary fighters escorted...
Hank Greenberg in 1938
Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Hammerin’” Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he’d hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season). Even with his success at the plate,...
Wayward Reproductions
Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race/reproduction bind”––the...
World War Two at Sea
The Last Battleships
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more...
Two-Man Air Force
Don Gentile & John Godfrey World War Two Flying Aces
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2006
American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge in England. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy aircraft destroyed....
Skytrain
A Transport Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, passenger air travel was expensive, uncomfortable, and frequently unreliable. That began to change with the appearance of the handsome, thoroughly modern...
Lone Eagle
The Fighter Pilot Experience—From World War I and World War II to the Jet Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The author of With Wings as Eagles gets into the cockpit with generations of fighter pilots on an illustrated trip through military aviation history.
Take someone with superior intelligence, unusual strength, perfect vision, catlike reflexes, exceptional marksmanship, and nerves of steel and you...
Battleships: The First Big Guns
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This new addition to the Images of War series takes as its focus the early Big Gun battleships that saw development and deployment during the First World War. Iconic ships such as HMS Warspite and Malaya feature amidst this pictorial history that is sure to appeal to fans of the series, and naval...
The Bird Farm
Carrier Aviation and Naval Aviators?A History and Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
See the excitement and danger of life on an aircraft carrier like never before.
How does it feel to sit aboard a thirty-ton jet and be hurled over a ship’s bow at 140 miles per hour? And how does a deck crew coordinate its efforts to achieve such a feat every thirty seconds?
Offering...
U-boat Prey: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1942
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
“The Merchant Seaman never faltered. To him we owe our preservation and our very lives” - The Right Hon. Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport.
During the first stages of the Second World War, all forces were rallied in an attempt to support the Allied effort. With trade and supply routes...
by C Loring Brace, Kaye Brown, Matt Cartmill
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology_or, as it is now known, biological anthropology_from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors...