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49 produkter
Agent for the Resistance
Inbunden, 1994
353 kr
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When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, he entered the resistance and five years of dangerous work as, in his words, ""a fighter and a killer"".
Transfer Transformation Ideas & Material
Av Texas A&M University Press, Peter J. Hugill m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
218 kr
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Lost Colony of the Confederacy
Häftad, 2000
225 kr
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Although it is not known how many Confederates migrated to South America, their departure was fuelled by bitterness over a lost cause and a distaste for an oppressive victor. This book tells the story of a grim, Quixotic journey of 20,000 Confederates to Brazil at the end of the American Civil War.
Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner
Häftad, 2001
215 kr
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William Watson spent two years evading Union gunboats and dealing with the ""sharpers"" who fed off the misfortune of the Civil War. In 1892, using log books, personal papers, and business memoranda, he published this ""plain, blunt,"" account of ""events just as they happened."" The result was a …
Keeping the Faith
Russian Orthodox Monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939
Inbunden, 2004
504 kr
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In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, both spiritually and politically, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stallnist …
Tales of a Cold War Submariner
Häftad, 2004
280 kr
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Though Dan Summitt retired from the U.S Navy years ago, he still regrets not receiving clearance to fill a submarine missile tube with thirty-five thousand pounds of wet grits and launch it at a very pesky Russian spy ship. In Tales of a Cold War Submariner, Summitt tells the story of his military …
Buffalo Soldiers in the West
A Black Soldiers Anthology
Av Texas A&M University Press, Bruce A. Glasrud m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
312 kr
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In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo soldiers, and their record in the infantry and cavalry, a record full of dignity and pride, provides one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of …
In Search of a Home
Nineteenth-century Wendish Immigration
Häftad, 2007
225 kr
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In the previous century, a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents. George R. Nielsen, in this revised edition of his classic study of Wendish migration, carefully describes the details of immigration and weighs the …
Serce Limani V. 2; Glass of an Eleventh-century Shipwreck
Inbunden, 2009
1731 kr
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For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds …
Moss Bluff Rebel
A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War
Inbunden, 2009
363 kr
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'I was not willing, but finally agreed...' So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of …
Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas
Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II
Häftad, 2008
303 kr
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In "Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas", Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination undermined …
Red Cosmos
K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry
Inbunden, 2009, 15+ år
605 kr
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Long before the space race captured the world's attention, K.E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs. Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanctioned …
Promised Land
Solms, Castro, and Sam Houston's Colonization Contracts
Inbunden, 2009
352 kr
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In 1842, Sam Houston, president of the new Texas Republic, wanted four things: peace with Mexico, peace with the native population, financing from Europe, and productive settlers for his vast, new country. He issued colonization contracts in an effort to meet all these objectives, but only two of …
Bridging the Constitutional Divide
Inside the White House Office of Legislative Affairs
Av Texas A&M University Press, Russell L. Riley
Inbunden, 2010
425 kr
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In September 2003, seven former heads of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs gathered for the first time ever to compare their experiences working for every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. For two days, these congressional liaisons, charged with moving their respective …
Julian Huxley
Biologist and Statesman of Science
Av Texas A&M University Press, C. Kenneth Waters m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
351 kr
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A member of the distinguished British Huxley family, Julian Huxley (1887-1975) was a man of many talents and enormous energy. At the beginning of his career, he founded the biology department at Rice Institute, where he taught for three years before going on to achieve eminence as a biologist, …
Red Cosmos
K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry
Häftad, 2009, 15+ år
259 kr
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Long before the space race captured the world's attention, K.E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs. Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanctioned …
Halford Mackinder
A Biography
Häftad, 2010
232 kr
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In the early twentieth century, Halford Mackinder established geography as a new discipline in English universities, predicted the decline of British influence in world affairs and the rise of European totalitarian regimes, and made the first ascent of Mount Kenya. His views colored American …
Execute Against Japan
The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Inbunden, 2013
238 kr
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“Execute against Japan should be required reading for naval officers (especially in submarine wardrooms), as well as for anyone interested in history, policy, or international law.” - Adm. James P. Wisecup, President, US Naval War College (for Naval War College Review)
Birds of the Texas Panhandle
Their Status, Distribution, and History
Inbunden, 2000
565 kr
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A guide to the status, distribution and history of the birds found on the open plains of the Texas Panhandle. For each of the more than 400 species found in this region, it provides information on the bird's status, occurrence and nesting habits. Eleven line illustrations accompany the text.
Broken Trusts
The Texas Attorney General Versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
Inbunden, 2002
582 kr
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Nineteenth-century editorial cartoons often pictured government and industry hand-in-hand. Yet as early as 1889 Texas had enacted an antitrust law to curb the power of monopolies. For most of the first twenty-five years following the enactment of the Sherman Antitrust Act, federal enforcement …
Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
Inbunden, 2002
216 kr
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From its earliest days of colonization, Texas sparked the imagination and ambition of some of North America's greatest leaders. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was one such man. His interest in Texas coincided with the strategic goal of Sam Houston, the …
Come to Texas
Enticing Immigrants, 1865-1915
Inbunden, 2003
467 kr
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Come to Texas, urged countless advertisements, newspaper articles, and private letters in the late nineteenth century. Expensive acres lay fallow, ready to be turned to agricultural uses. Entrepreneurial Texans knew that drawing immigrants to those lands meant greater prosperity for the state as a …
Imagining Flight
Aviation and Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2003
370 kr
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The history of the air age has mostly been written from the perspective of aircraft designers, builders, and pilots. ""Imagining Flight"" is a history of the air age as the rest of us have experienced it: on the pages of books, the screens of movie theatres and the front pages of newspapers. It is …
