Steven: 5874 books
by Steven Beller
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national history of the Habsburg Monarchy, or with the...
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780–1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley’s time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama.
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Soldier in Paradise
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Soldier In Paradise is a novel depicting the human experience of life through the eyes of war. Th is fi ctional autobiography follows the trials and tribulations of one young mans journey out of childhood adolescence and into the prison of memories inescapable by any means. Th e struggle to forget...
by Steven Rosefielde
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more. These high crimes against humanity constitute a Red Holocaust that exceeds the combined carnage of the French Reign of...
Bully of Asia
Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
THE ONCE AND FUTURE HEGEMON
In a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country
that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago
whose economic...
Feeble-Minded in Our Midst
Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. In this book, Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the 'feeble-minded' in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the...
The Clara Nevada
Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
The true story of a mysterious shipwreck during the Klondike gold rush.
In early February 1898, witnesses reported a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska’s Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm, taking...
M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural
Operation Desert Storm 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Gulf War bore witness to a number of deadly encounters between these two great adversaries. Heavily armoured, highly mobile and capable of killing at over 2500m the M1 Abrams is, to this day, a veritable fighting machine. Superior to both Iraq's Soviet era T-55 and T-62 tanks, nearly all sources...
Politicizing the International Criminal Court
The Convergence of Politics, Ethics, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 1998 has attracted growing interest in the evolving role of politics in international law. Steven C. Roach's innovative and systematic work on the political and ethical dimensions of the ICC is the first comprehensive attempt to situate...
Red SAM
The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Russian SA-2, nicknamed "Red SAM,†? is history's dominant antiaircraft missile. In 1960 it famously downed Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane, and two years later it was one of the missiles deployed during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost sparked a nuclear showdown between America and the...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Russian T-72 Ural tank is the most widely-deployed main battle tank of the current generation. Used by the armies of the former Warsaw pact and Soviet Union, it has also been exported in large numbers to many of the states in the Middle East. This book reveals the previously secret history behind...
T-80 Standard Tank
The Soviet Army’s Last Armored Champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The Soviet T-80 Standard Tank was the last tank fielded before the Soviet collapse, and the most controversial. Despite having the most sophisticated fire controls and multi-layer armor ever fielded on a Soviet tank, its turbine power plant (rather than a conventional diesel) remained a source of...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The Soviet Army hastily developed the T-62 in a struggle to compete against the rapid proliferation of NATO tanks in the 1960s. It was essentially a modification of the widely-manufactured T-55 tank with the addition of a new 115mm gun. Within the USSR itself, the T-62 was quickly superseded, but...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
The Sherman tank was the principal US and Allied tank of World War II more Shermans were built than all German tanks combined. Not only were large numbers of Shermans manufactured, but a large number of variants emerged powered by different types of engines and with different types of hulls, turrets...