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Yanks in the RAF
This is the story of American volunteer pilots who risked their lives in defense of Britain during the earliest days of World War II--more than a year before Pearl Harbor, when the United States first became embroiled in the global conflict. Based on interviews, diaries, personal documents, and rese... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Battle of Wills: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and the Last Year of the Civil War
Historians have long analyzed the battles and the military strategies that brought the American Civil War to an end. Going beyond tactics and troop maneuvers, this book concentrates on the characters of the two opposing generals--Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant--showing how their different temper... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln: A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges
This day-by-day account of Abraham Lincoln's last six weeks of life covers a period of extraordinary events, not only for the president himself but for the fate of the nation.From March 4 to April 15, 1865--a momentous time for the nation--Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address, supe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
This lively narrative, full of intriguing historical facts, brings to life an important series of episodes in our nation's history. History and Civil War buffs will not want to put down this real-life page-turner."I'm going to be beaten . . . and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten." ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Union Revisited (Images of America)
Union Township has changed dramatically since the 1950s. The town was still very rural in those days. O'Mara's Farm sold fresh fruit to local kids on their daily trek home from school; Headley's Cider Mill sold homemade cider that tasted like real apples and sausages that tasted like nothing that ha... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Revelation
Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors’ studies wo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #555)
This Festschrift, Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges, is the first Festschrift in the IFIP AICT series. It examines key challenges facing the ICT community today. While addressing the contemporary challenges, the book provides the opportunity to look back to help understand the co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Alone Together: How Marriage In America Is Changing
Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve satisfying and stable relationships. Others believe that changes, such as increasing gender equality, have made marriage a be... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing
Based on two studies of marital quality in America twenty years apart, Alone Together shows that while the divorce rate has leveled off, spouses are spending less time together. The authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in societ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Integrated Principles Of Zoology
A comprehensive text covering biological principles, molecular genetics, evolution, diversity, and anatomy and physiology. Each chapter of the book has been fully revised and include colour illustrations, tables and figures.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl
by David Bevington • Adrian Poole • Stanley Wells • Catherine Belsey • Peter Holland • Paul Edmondson • Brian Gibbons • Ann Thompson • Piero Boitani • R. A. Foakes • Ann Jennalie Cook • Bruce R. Smith • Phyllis Rackin • Grace Ioppolo • Alan Brissenden • Christa Jansohn • Velma Bourgeois Richmond • Hugh Macrae Richmond • Martin Orkin • John O. Thompson • Alexander Shurbanov • Chee-Seng Lim • Werner Habicht • Marta Gibinska • Jesús Tronch • Catherine M.S. Alexander • Georgianna ZieglerShakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl offers a wide-ranging collection of essays written by an international team of distinguished scholars who attempt to define, to challenge, and to erode boundaries that currently inhibit understanding of Shakespeare, and to exemplify how ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Conversations in Food Studies
by Arthur Green • Carmen Wong • Penny Van Esterik • Keith Lee • Jennifer Sumner • Charles Z. Levkoe • Phil Mount • Colin R. Anderson • Jennifer Brady • Mustafa Koç • Mary A. Beckie • Eva A. Bogdan • Mark Bomford • Jennifer A. Braun • Samara Brock • Robyn Bunn • Kirsten Valentine Cadieux • Chantal Clement • Anais Detolle • Ankit Gupta • Robert Jennings • Josee Johnson • Emily Huddart Kennedy • Ahmed Khan • Mustafa Koc • Kristen Lowitt • Wanda Martin • Victoria Millious • Erika Mundel • Alan Nash • Seriy Polyakov • Keren Rideout • Steffanie Scott • Tammara Soma • Cathryn Sprague • David Szanto • Lani Trenouth • Matt Ventresca • Cassie Wever • Konstantinos ZougrisFew things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023