Thomas Tucker: 28 books
by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
For the first time, the true story of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America’s most popular stories. For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America’s most popular western myths, growing larger over...
America's Bloody Hill of Destiny
A New Look at the Struggle for Little Round Top, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
No chapter in the annals of the most important battle of America's national epic has been more celebrated than the key struggle for possession of the rocky hill at the extreme southern flank of the battle line at Gettysburg, Little Round Top. And no contest during the battle of Gettysburg was deadlier...
Burnside's Bridge
The Climactic Struggle of the 2nd and 20th Georgia at Antietam Creek
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Profile of the troops whose last stand helped prevent the destruction of the Army of Northern Virginia, providing Robert E. Lee with yet another chance for a northern invasion .
Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground
The Devil’s Den, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
During the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at the southern end of Houck's Ridge was truly a hell on earth during the decisive afternoon of July 2, 1863.
The...
by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Not all pirates are men, nor are all damsels in distress. Here is the true saga of Irish born Anne Bonny, "Golden Age" pirate of the 18th Century Caribbean.
Hollywood has tried numerous times to reproduce Anne, currently in Starz Black Sails, even the video game Assassins Creed, and...
The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots
Language Minorities and Political Access Under the Voting Rights Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
In recent years, few federal requirements have been as controversial as the mandate for what critics call 'bilingual ballots'. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 included a permanent requirement for language assistance for Puerto Rican voters educated in Spanish and ten years later Congress banned English-only...
The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry
Imagining the Earth Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural...
Derridada
Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Jacques Derrida said that deconstruction 'takes place everywhere.' Derridada reexamines the work of artist Marcel Duchamp as one of these places. Tucker suggests that Duchamp belongs to deconstruction as much as deconstruction belongs to Duchamp. Both bear the infra-thin mark of the other. He explores...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
by Ann E. Burnette, Mary Frances Casper, Hao-Chieh Chang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the...
by Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
by Thomas George Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This 1907 volume sets out, in the author’s own words, to demonstrate “the interdependence of literatures.” Chapters include “Greek Literature and English,” “Latin Literature and English,” “Literary Currents of the Dark Ages,” and “French Literature and English,” among others.
by Jonathan L. Gross, Thomas W. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
The use of topological ideas to explore various aspects of graph theory, and vice versa, is a fruitful area of research. There are links with other areas of mathematics, such as design theory and geometry, and increasingly with such areas as computer networks where symmetry is an important feature....
Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus
Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors...
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