Tombs: 29 books

On March 15, 1965, at 2:00 p.m., Theodore Poland was in the Newark, New Jersey, at the supreme court of Judge Jocoby Graham, waiting to be sentenced for attempted murder. The two shooting victims in wheelchairs accusing Theodore were quietly speaking with several assistant prosecutors in the courtroom...

It is 5:00 a.m. Monday morning in the conference room of the Franklin Technologies St. John, United States Virgin Islands headquarters. General James Phillips just arrived to brief Michael Tombs on the top secret conference in the Middle East with Michael Tombs and the Saudi group in the Saudi Arabian...

That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel...

Bruce Tombs has written passionately about the emotions felt by those adults who live with the struggle of having weak reading skills. He writes form a powerful personal perspective with a message of hope. Tombs will give you insight into the minds of those who live the literacy struggle, then break...

Early Monday morning on September 18, back in the day, Aku was extremely angry and upset because of the murder of Uncle Freddie in South Carolina. What prompted his anger was that the killer’s hideout was known by young Rudy and his family, who lived in Columbia at the time. Aku wanted “this piece...

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common...

Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution...

→ Grand entretien avec Gilles Kepel : « Le salafisme est l’arrière-plan culturel du djihadisme » Pour Gilles Kepel, la radicalisation ne précède pas l’islamisation. « Il ne s’agit pas de “Brigades rougesˮ devenues “ vertesˮ ; il ne s’agit pas non plus de simple nihilisme »....

Robber Baronr is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world's third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering. Robber Baron is based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, original documents,...

What is research in education? And what is it for in a digital age? Reflecting upon these questions, this engaging introduction provides critical discussion about the dilemmas of researching education in the digital age and ways forward for research in this complex area. Research Methods for...

Amiri Baraka is, in my opinion, a literary genius: He knew how to write, but he knew it so well that he could make a world of it. Certainly Baraka’s ideas prevail within the American literary community, however, from Amiri Baraka comes my contemporary emphasis on revolution and its power to mobilize...

According to Michael Tombs, “To prove murder, you have to prove intent. And you must prove intent not by the laws of today but by the laws of the time.” The collapse of the economic, financial, and political structure in the North African and the Middle Eastern nations of Libya, Iraq, and Syria...

While sitting in his World Trade Center office suite soon after his arrival from St. John, United States Virgin Islands, Michael Tombs began to privately reflect, “I knew the Duran assignment was a very tough, dangerous, and challenging assignment. However, I knew my security team had dotted every single I and crossed every single T in the war on terror in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Namibia.”