Robert Mcnally: 4 books
Crude Volatility
The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude...
Pyramid Quest
Secrets of the Great Pyramid and the Dawn of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2005
The Egyptologist acclaimed for re-dating the Great Sphinx at Giza sets his sights on one of the true mysteries of antiquity: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza? Ask that basic question of a traditional Egyptologist, and you get the basic, traditional answer: a fancy...
The Modoc War
A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s...
Making a Difference in Education
What the evidence says
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving young people's outcomes in pre-school, primary and secondary education. Never has this issue been more topical as the UK attempts to compete in the global...