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Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26–June 3, 1864
Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and L... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864
Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon C. Rhea provi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1994 -
The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864 (Jules And Frances Landry Award Ser.)
The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Campaign abounds with Rhea's signature detail, innovative analysis, and riveting prose. Here Rhea examines the maneuvers and battles from May 7, 1864, when Grant left the Wilderness, through May 12, when... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1997 -
To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864
With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 through 25, a phase oddly ignored by historians, was critical in the c... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2000 -
Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero
The life of Charles Whilden, an "epileptic desk clerk," was largely one of mediocrity and failure until one moment of flag-bearing heroism that had a significant impact on the very course of the American Civil War, according to historian Rhea. Rhea combines the life story of Whilden with the descri... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Southern Biography Series)
Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously covered the campaign in his magisterial volumes... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study
The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia during the Overland Campaign included the pivotal battles of Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Yet this crucial engagement has only recently received the same degree of scrutin... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Stellar Short Novels
This is a collection of three short science fiction novels including: The Mortal and the Monster by Gordon R. Dickson (a delightful story of Nessie), The Greenhouse Defect by Andrew J. Offutt (science fiction locked room mystery cum ecological mayhem), and Oceans Away by Robert S. Weinstein (is it t... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1976 -
Domestic Trends in the United States, China, and Iran
The U.S. Navy faces uncertainty about the degree to which it will have to prepare for a high-end future conflict versus the so-called Long War. To help the Navy understand how critical near-, mid-, and far-term trends in the United States, China, and Iran might influence U.S. security decisions in g... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008 -
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure--a riddle--a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. La... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance
Corporate governance is on the reform agenda all over the world. Is the Anglo-American model of shareholder capitalism destined to become the global corporate governance standard or will important differences persist? Well-known scholars address this question with sophisticated political economy an... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc.
Describes the technical, economic, and competitive trends in the metal container industry. The strategy of Crown Cork and Seal is then described in relation to these trends. Focuses on two immediate threats to Crown's strategy: the future of aerosol cans, given the ozone problem; and the impact of t... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1977 -
Your Insiders' Guide to Retirement: The Practical Guide to Transitioning from Working to Retirement
Your Insiders Guide to Retirement sheds surprising light on the necessary financial planning for a secure retirement. Are you ready to retire, but are afraid of running out of money? Do you know who to trust? People imagine retirement as learning new things, challenging themselves, giving back as a ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Leadership: Helping Others To Succeed
by George J. Mitchell • Vickie Gordon • Denise Brouillette • Tom Bay • Bernard Curtis • Madelon Miles • Curt Dombecky • Michael K. Takagawa • Dian J. Harrison • Robert L. Nibbs • Patricia Schroeder • Ray Perry • David W. Earle • Brett Miles • Stephan KrausWhat are you doing to help the others on your team lead as effectively as you are? True leaders lead by helping others to succeed. Learn how in this dynamic, exciting book that features outstanding speakers, leaders, and authors who explain how they help others and why they think helping others is a... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2006 -
Calculus: Single Variable (5th Edition)
by Deborah Hughes Hallett • Deborah Hughes-Hallett • Daniel E. Flath • Andrew M. Gleason • Patti Frazer Lock • Karen R. Rhea • Andrew Pasquale • Sheldon P. Gordon • Douglas Quinney • William G. Mccallum • David O. Lomen • David Lovelock • Jeff Tecosky-Feldman • Thomas W. Tucker • Joseph ThrashThe fifth edition of Calculus brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team's extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innova... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (The Revolutionary Age)
by Francis D. Cogliano • Nicholas Canny • Gordon S. Wood • T. H. Breen • Eliga Gould • Matthew P. Dziennik • Trevor Burnard • S. Max Edelson • Robert G. Ingram • Rachel Banke • Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy • Jessica Choppin Roney • Annette Gordon-Reed • Christa Dierksheide • Peter S. OnufO’Shaughnessy, International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello * Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History (Jeffersonian America)
by Gordon S. Wood • Andrew Burstein • Jon Meacham • R. B. Bernstein • Annette Gordon-Reed • Jan Ellen Lewis • J. Jefferson Looney • Brian Steele • Nancy Isenberg • Francis D. Cogliano • Joanne B. Freeman • Barbara Oberg • Christine Coalwell McDonald • Robert M. S. McDonald • Richard Samuelson • Herbert SloanWho was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplishments. Jefferson was controversi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Bovine Tuberculosis
by B. Coleman • Y. Wu • R. Reid • A. Arunachalam • H. A. Bahamonde • L. Borrelli • S. Briggs • G. Caballé • C. Carrasco • S. X. Chang • C. Concha • S. K. Dhyani • F. Dube • C. Dupraz • M. E. Fernández • C. Figueroa • V. Gargaglione • H. E. Garrett • M. A. Gold • Professor Andrew Gordon • J. Gyenge • A. K. Handa • N. E. Hansen • M. F. Hawke • S. Jose • P. D. Kemp • R. L. Knowles • B. M. Kumar • N. Lamersdorf • G. J. Lawson • M. V. Lencinas • C. E. Lloyd • G. Martínez Pastur • R. Moore • B. Müller-Using • P. Neira • S. M. Newman • S. Ormaechea • V. P. Papanastasis • X. Peng • P. L. Peri • D. J. Pilbeam • A. Rosati • J. Ruiz-Mirazo • V. Rusch • M. Sarasola • J. M. Schwenke • V. Schwenke • R. Soler • N. B. Stolpe • L. E. Tejera • N. V. Thevathasan • A.R. von Müller • W. Wang • T. Ward • L. Zabek • E. Zagal • Z. ZhuThis book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in som... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Barbara Jones • Paul Coleman • Anna Dean • David Waltner-Toews • Michael Clarke • Iain J. Gordon • Rea Tschopp • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Karin Hediger • Mahamat Bechir • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Martin Bunch • Maxine Whittaker • Dennis C Turner • Abigail Woods • Michael Bresalier • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky • Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Massimo Canali • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Kathryn C. Conlon • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • Sylvia Wanzala • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Andreas F. Widmer • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian ZurbrüggOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
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: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023