Tucker: 805 books
Women's Lacrosse
A Guide for Advanced Players and Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Women’s lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States. As stick technology advances, athleticism increases, and rules and regulations adapt, even the most experienced players and coaches need to keep current on all aspects of the game. Janine Tucker, head women’s lacrosse...
Dance Floor Democracy
The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window...
by Charlotte Maria Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Haunted Room Charlotte Maria Tucker, writer and poet for children and adults, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E., a Lady of England (1821-1893) This ebook presents «The Haunted Room», from Charlotte Maria Tucker. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...
by Charlotte Maria Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Hebrew Heroes Charlotte Maria Tucker, writer and poet for children and adults, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E., a Lady of England (1821-1893) This ebook presents «Hebrew Heroes», from Charlotte Maria Tucker. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....
The Panther Tank
Hitler’s T-34 Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Along with the Tiger, Sherman and T-34, the Panther ranks as one of the most famous tanks of the Second World War. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this comprehensive new study of a remarkable fighting vehicle, uses over 100 archive photographs, along with a selection of colour profiles, to describe its design,...
The Panzer IV
Hitler's Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34\. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the Tiger and Panther tanks, Anthony Tucker-Jones...
T-54/55
The Soviet Army's Cold War Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The Soviet T-54/55 is probably the best-known tank of the Cold War, and it was produced in greater numbers that any other tank in history. It first went into service just after the Second World War and over 70,000 were made, and its design was so successful that it even outlasted its successor the...
Panzer III
Hitler's Beast of Burden
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen III Panzer III was one of the German army's principal tanks of the Second World War, yet its history is often overlooked in comparison to its more famous successors the Panzer IV, Panther and Tiger. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images of War series, provides a visual...
Panzer I and II
The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic...
by Spencer C. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea. And for good reason. Naval operations decided the outcome of the war as the North exploited its significant naval and maritime advantage to turn the war on land in its favor....
War of Nerves
Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic...
The Forty-Seven Ronin
The Vendetta in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The forty-seven rōnin vendetta is one of the most famous incidents in Japanese history, but it is also one of the most misunderstood. John A. Tucker seeks to provide a credible account of the vendetta and its afterlife in history. He suggests that, when considered historically and holistically, the...
Living with Tourism
Negotiating Identities in a Turkish Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Redefining 'community' and considering the effects tourism has on culture, this detailed book delivers an ethnographic account of both the toured and touring community in Göreme, central Turkey.
Hazel Tucker presents an in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community...
by Kate Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
'The book is grounded in the latest research about how children become effective learners, particularly in relation to mathematics. Bringing together research and practice in an accessible way, Kate Tucker provides an essential resource for all those who work with young children. I strongly recommend...