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Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
by John L.D. Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
How would posterity and the youth of Britain remember my men who had died in such a desperate battle? UNLESS they were told the story, they would have nothing to remember, states Rear Admiral G.W.G. Simpson CB, CBE Captain of the Fighting Tenth Flotilla Malta, G.C. 1941-1943. With this in mind, author...
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by Major John L. Zimmerman USMCR
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Contains 88 photos illustrations and maps.
“We struck at Guadalcanal to halt the advance of the Japanese. We did not know how strong he was, nor did we know his plans. We knew only that he was moving down the island chain and that he had to be stopped.
We were as well trained and as well armed as...
Upon the Fields of Battle
Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of...
by John L. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In recent years a host of Western Marxists have tried to emancipate Marx from responsibility for various unsavory doctrines. Political theorists have argued that Marx can avoid the weight of Stalinism and also the various theories, such as positivism, naturalism, Darwinism, technological determinism...
by Peter Stern, Gary L. Hewitt, Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor...
Miera y Pacheco
A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
The Future Church
How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed*—and what the changes will mean for all of us.*
What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the...
Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject
Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies – that is, how the necessity and unassailable intensity of trauma is fastened to its historical emergence....
Basics of Greek Accents
Eight Lessons with Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Basics of Greek Accents by John A. L. Lee is a compact, student-friendly, and practical guide to accents for students of both classical and biblical Greek. In eight simple lessons students will learn the basics of ancient Greek accentuation.
Ideal for beginners who are just learning the language...
by John L. French
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Books of the Dead Press is proud to present: Paradise Denied
Fast Eddie’s Big Night Out:
Fast Eddie Cromwell is a thief and junkie willing to give up his supplier in exchange for a new start. But when he gets killed before the deal can be made two cops and a voodoo practicing Medical Examiner...
by John L. Cameron, MD, FACS
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Each year, Elsevier’s Advances in Surgery reviews the latest techniques, data, and evidence in general surgery. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. John L. Cameron of Johns Hopkins, identifies current areas of major progress and controversy, and invites specialists from around the world to contribute comprehensive, detailed reviews on these topics.
Afghanistan: The Perfect Failure
A War Doomed by the Coalition’s Strategies, Policies and Political Correctness
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Unparalleled access to all levels of the Afghan government and coalition forces is the result of John Cook’s tenure in Afghanistan. Over the past four and a half years, he has developed an intimate and alarming insight into what has become a hand-wringing quagmire of politically correct, socially and...