Lucas: 1331 books

Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle.

A posting to the Eastern Front during the Second World War was rightly regarded with dread...

The author of War on the Eastern Front offers an in-depth analysis of Nazi Germany’s shock troop tactics in every theater of WWII.   The German army in the Second World War sought to fight and win swift, decisive victories in a succession of short campaigns known as blitzkrieg, or “lightning...

As absolute as Hitler's control over the German war machine was, it depended on the ability, judgment and unquestioning loyalty of the senior officers charged with putting his ideas, however difficult, into effect. Top military historian James Lucas examines the stories of fourteen of these...

An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes...

In 2004, one of the world’s last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ bulldozers.  Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire’s intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo...

Este volumen recoge una descripción detallada de México en los albores de su independencia. El ocaso del mundo novohispano es visto con la lente del polifacético y polémico historiador guanajuatense Lucas Alamán (1792-1853), una de las figuras más destacadas del siglo XIX mexicano.

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional...

Ogni inizio contiene già una magia. Ma è solo alla fine della storia che incontriamo la vera felicità. «"C’è sempre un lieto fine" è il miglior antidoto al cattivo umore, vi farà sorridere e commuovere dalla prima all’ultima pagina.» Literaturmarkt «Ora si trovava...

This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points...

The author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy dares all women who have had a stumble in life to harness their fighting spirit and stand back up with courage and optimism. One mastectomy, two C-sections, three pant’s sizes, and lots of red lipstick later, Geralyn Lucas is dealing with...

Astronomers are on the verge of answering one of our most profound questions: are we alone in the universe? The ability to detect life in remote solar systems is at last within sight, and its discovery—even if only in microbial form—would revolutionize our self-image. Planet Hunters is the rollicking...

Up in his office, Mark Gibson shuffled through his creative concepts like a deck of cards, placing his bets. He’d spent the familiar long hours hunched over his laptop, and longer ones scribbling in his bedside notebook. He had portfolios of options, drawers full of thoughts, and absolutely nothing...

This photo reveals an author in deep denial of which a whole book could be written. Lucas asks how definitive does a man have to be to tell a story of reasonable conjecture from the viewpoint of a victim? He finds himself in eerily similar circumstances that his protagonist found himself to be in: Tampa, the hood, 9/11, the VA, Alcohol Anonymous. Whatever can be said, consider it said.

A classic tale of romance and love by Lucas Malet.