Tucker: 805 books
Workers of the World, Enjoy!
Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model...
That Was When People Started to Worry
Windows into Unwell Minds
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
'This is mental illness. It is unexpected strength and unusual luck and an uninterrupted string of steps. Then the next wave comes. And while you wipe grit from your eyes and swipe blood from your knees, the smiling faces in the distance call out: Why do you keep falling over?! Just stand up!'
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George Washington's Surprise Attack
A New Look at the Battle That Decided the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Extensively researched and superbly argued in Tucker’s compelling narrative, this in-depth examination of George Washington’s military miracle’ at the Battle of Trenton unquestionably confirms the vital importance of that stunning victory.” -Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, editor in chief at Armchair...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The German Tiger I and Tiger II (known to the Allies as the 'King Tiger' or 'Royal Tiger') were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day their awesome reputation inspired such apprehension among Allied soldiers that the weaknesses of these brilliant but flawed...
Daesh
Islamic State’s Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda...
Blue & Gray Navies
The Civil War Afloat
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
A longtime military history professor at Virginia Military Institute and prolific author, Spencer Tucker examines the important roles played by the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War. His book makes use of recent scholarship as well as official records and the memoirs of participants to...
Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"—including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics—is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age...
Notre Dame vs. The Klan
How the Fighting Irish Defied the KKK
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In 1924, two uniquely American institutions clashed in northern Indiana: the University of Notre Dame and the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker’s book, published for the first time in paperback, Notre Dame vs. The Klan tells the shocking story of the three-day confrontation in the streets of South Bend,...
A Wilderness of Tigers
A Novel of the Harpe Brothers and Frontier Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2005
With the cessation of the Indian Wars, Silas Magby believed that Western Kentucky would be safe for his wife and children. But then the Harpes came—two mysterious brothers, Micajah and Wiley, with three devoted women followers, leaving a wake of ghoulish and seemingly motiveless murders—men, women,...
by Tucker Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Three full-length sports history and trivia books from Black Mesa Publishing and author Tucker Elliot.Cincinnati Reds IQ: The Ultimate Test of True FandomIn 1968, Johnny Bench was a 20-year-old rookie embarking on his first full Major League season with the Cincinnati Reds. He was also the Reds starting...
The Moment of Racial Sight
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene...
by Kenneth Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
In 1913, several brutal murders occurred in the small town of Canton, Kentucky.Quentin Spade, the scion of a wealthy familyintellectual, respected. artistic, reserved,was accused of being a psychotic killerbut was he?In the early Twenty-First Century, Tiffany Gray, a college student, becomes obsessed...
by Dr George Tucker PhD ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Parents are often blamed for causing their children's problems, regardless of the age of the child or the number of "good children" that the parents have raised in addition to the "problem child." As a result of this bias against parents, especially when the bias is propagated by those in the...
by Kenneth Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Meet Leo Krull who encountered his dream girl when she emerged from his television screen; Lester Wilthammer, who, when his wife left him, took an almost unimaginable step; Marcus Garth who made a regrettable deal with a human devil during Kentucky’s tobacco wars; a werewolf in full hair and fangs...