William L : 574 books
The Collapse of the Third Republic
An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times).
As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just...
Deception
Counterdeception and Counterintelligence
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Bridging the divide between theory and practice, Deception: Counterdeception and Counterintelligence provides a thorough overview of the principles of deception and its uses in intelligence operations. This masterful guide focuses on practical training in deception for both operational planners and...
Extinct Madagascar
Picturing the Island's Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island’s baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar’s mammal fauna, for example, is far more diverse, and more...
Shaken and Stirred
Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
William L. Hamilton loves a good gimlet. Rose's and lime. Straight up. Perfectly iced. Make the glass pretty too. "It ruined my reputation for thinking before I speak," he writes of that love. "I accept the trade-off." Like Lewis Carroll's Alice, when Hamilton sees it, he drinks...
by William L Culbertson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Young Dax is rightfully King Darius Ambegriff X of West Landly, but an evil plot ends his reign before it can begin. The discovery that his father had been poisoned, along with an attempt on his own life, forces Dax to flee his castle home and live by his wits. At first he is alone in a world of danger,...
When Washington Shut Down Wall Street
The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled America's...
Fields of Blood
The Prairie Grove Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
William L. Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding fighting at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War, which effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. Fields of Blood provides a colorful account of a grueling...
Just a Guy
Some Memories and Reflections of William L Horton 1947-2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
My dad, Lew Horton, always had a place to do woodworking. After he retired from Penneys he rented places in Lincoln, Illinois to store his stuff and work on projects. I helped him to move his shop twice-- a hard, dirty job. On one move an older fellow helped, probably because he had a pickup and Dad...
Ipse Dixit
How the World Looks to a Federal Judge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During William L. Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a U.S. District Court judge, he presided over many complex and groundbreaking cases. In one of his most controversial rulings, he engaged environmentalists and the timber industry in a heavily publicized and emotionally fraught battle over the territory...
Transitions
Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...
by William L. Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
The Anglican conflict over homosexuality has drawn worldwide interest and divided the church. However, conflict within Christianity is not new. This book traces the steps by which the crisis emerged, and reveals the deeper debates within the church which underlie both the current controversy and much...
by William L. Remley
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The influence of anarchists such as Proudhon and Bakunin is apparent in Jean-Paul Sartres' political writings, from his early works of the 1920s to Critique of Dialectical Reason, his largest political piece. Yet, scholarly debate overwhelmingly concludes that his political philosophy is a Marxist...
Feminism in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
William L. O'Neill's lively history of American women's struggle for equality is written with style and a keen sense for the variety of possible interpretations of 150 years of the feminist movement, from its earliest stirring in the 1830's to the latest developments in the 1980s.
O'Neill's...
by David Albert, Mike Chanslor, Carolyn L. Funk
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Candidate Images provides...