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30 produkter
Sixty Stories
Av David Gates, Donald Barthelme
Häftad, 2005
179 kr
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This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences …
The Spanish Ulcer: A History of Peninsular War
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2001
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
335 kr
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Jernigan
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2015
126 kr
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Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what …
Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2003
225 kr
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Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for …
Jernigan
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2010
121 kr
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From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his …
Wonders of the Invisible World
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2010
95 kr
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The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful …
Preston Falls
A Novel
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2010
110 kr
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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. "Full of dark truths and biting humor," wrote Frederick Exley, "a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time." After that blackly comic handbook of self-destruction--whose antihero …
Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
Stories and a novella
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2015
110 kr
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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, each one of them carries the full weight of …
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a Novella
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2016
329 kr
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Air Power in the Maritime Environment
The World Wars
Av David Gates, Ben Jones
Häftad, 2017
787 kr
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This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare …
Air Power in the Maritime Environment
The World Wars
Av Ben Jones, David Gates
E-bok, 2016
907 kr
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This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare …
Air Power in the Maritime Environment
The World Wars
Av Ben Jones, David Gates
E-bok, 2016
927 kr
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This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare …
Nonoffensive Defence
Alternative Strategy for N. A. T. O.
Av David Gates
E-bok, 1991
712 kr
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Throughout the 1980s numerous calls were made for Nato to change its strategy to one in which nuclear weapons played either a much smaller role or none at all. Among proposed alternatives were several so-called "defensive" strategies. This book examines these alternatives.
Air Power in the Maritime Environment
The World Wars
Av David Gates, Ben Jones
Inbunden, 2016
2585 kr
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This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare …
Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for …
924 Miles
Thoughts on Finding God and Living a Meaningful Life
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2015
80 kr
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924 Miles tells the story of a man searching for God while trying to figure out what life is all about. It explores the true purpose of life, the grace of God, and the connection between the two. It will make you cry, laugh, and ultimately examine your purpose in life; many are calling 924 Miles a …
924 Miles
Thoughts on Finding God and Living a Meaningful Life
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2015
142 kr
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924 Miles
Thoughts on Finding God and Living a Meaningful Life
Av David Gates
Inbunden, 2015
314 kr
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Islands in the Sky
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2013
42 kr
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The Falklands, at the time of this story, were a little known group of islands miles away from anywhere that most people hadnt even heard of. Of course, nearly everyone has now heard of them and most even have a good idea where they are.Back in the late 60s and early 70s they were a sleepy spot on …
Blurr
The Beginning of the End
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2017
61 kr
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A disease . . . the end of the times . . . a quest for survival? Where is a safe place to hide from the dangers that lurk behind a mask of lies? Daniel Gains and his best friend Carson Dennison own a retail establishment outside of town and have expectations in expanding their business. Little did …
Jernigan
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2015
113 kr
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Peter Jernigan''s life is slipping out of control. His wife''s gone, he''s lost his job and he''s a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn''t work, you up the dose. And when that doesn''t work, …
Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
Av David Gates
E-bok, 2015
104 kr
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A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates''s characters are a dark reflection of our own urban …
Sky Wars
A History of Military Aerospace Power
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2003
322 kr
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Unlike land and maritime military warfare, which has evolved over thousands of years, the history of war in the air is as short as it has been spectacular: only 100 years have passed since the first flight in a powered aircraft. Despite its brief history, however, military air power is not an …
