Tudor Networks of Power by: Prof Ruth Ahnert (Author), Dr Sebastian E. Ahnert (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2024-01-12 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 0198858973 ISBN-13: 9780198858973 Book Description Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelli...
The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: An Historical and Archaeological Study (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 2) by: Robert Schick (Author) Publisher: Gerlach Pr Publication Date: 2021-01-15 Language: English Print Length: 583 pages ISBN-10: 3959940920 ISBN-13: 9783959940924 Book Description An assessment of the nature and social continuity of Christian communities in Palestine from 602-813. By synthesizing literary and archeological evidence, it provi...
Alexander the Great: The Story of the Invincible Macedonian King (Lives in Action) Author(s): Martin Howard (Author) Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Publication Date: October 1, 2010 Language: English Print length: 127 pages ISBN-10: 1408126516 ISBN-13: 9781408126516 Book Description The story of Alexander the Great is one of the most amazing and enthralling that history has to offer. The reader will journey to a world of heroism, of great courage and amazing conquest as we follow Ale...
Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex (Technology in Motion) by: Alex Roland (Author) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Publication Date: 2021-08-10 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1421441810 ISBN-13: 9781421441818 Book Description Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War?First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, o...
Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought (Studies in Naval History and Sea Power) by: Kevin McCranie (Author) Publisher: Naval Institute Press Publication Date: 2021-02-15 Language: English Print Length: 344 pages ISBN-10: 1682475743 ISBN-13: 9781682475744 Book Description At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power. Important in their lifetimes, their writings re...
The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America’s Cold War Army (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History) by: Robert F. Williams (Author) Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication Date: 2025-03-15 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1501779826 ISBN-13: 9781501779824 Book Description The Airborne Mafia explores how a small group of World War II airborne officers took control of the US Army after World War II. This powerful cadre cemented a unique airb...
Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (Rural Studies) by: Michael Mayerfeld Bell (Author) Publisher: Penn State University Press Publication Date: 2024-03-19 Language: English Print Length: 334 pages ISBN-10: 0271097485 ISBN-13: 9780271097480 Book Description Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst o...
Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by: Mike Stark (Author) Publisher: Bison Books Publication Date: 2025-03-01 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 1496242025 ISBN-13: 9781496242020 Book Description Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City’s Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add to the tuneful choir of other songbirds. Rather than staying put, the...
When Fracking Comes to Town: Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom by: Sabina E. Deitrick (Editor), Ilia Murtazashvili (Editor) Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication Date: 2022-01-15 Language: English Print Length: 318 pages ISBN-10: 150176098X ISBN-13: 9781501760983 Book Description When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and...
Lair of the Lion: A History of Beaver Stadium (Keystone Books) by: Lee Stout (Author), Harry H. West (Author) Publisher: Penn State University Press Publication Date: 2017-07-03 Language: English Print Length: 196 pages ISBN-10: 027107776X ISBN-13: 9780271077765 Book Description Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home game―from the crowds and tailgates to the spectacle of the game itself―has changed significantly over the years...
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