Lost Voices of the Falklands War: Their story. In their words. by: Max Arthur (Author) Publisher: August Books Publication Date: 2025-03-13 Language: English Print Length: 402 pages ISBN-10: 1804369799 ISBN-13: 9781804369791 Book Description **’Remarkable and unique’ *Daily Express*** ## ‘I never dreamed we’d go to war with Argentina.’ Rear-Admiral John Woodward On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Britain was quick to mobilise a tas...
Modern Military Aircraft (Technical Guides) by: Ryan Cunningham (Author) Publisher: Amber Books Publication Date: 2022-03-14 Language: English Print Length: 128 pages ISBN-10: 1838861114 ISBN-13: 9781838861117 Book Description Illustrated with detailed artworks of modern military aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Technical Guide: Modern Military Aircraft is an extensively researched review of the military aircraft deployed by the world’s air forces in recen...
Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles by: Paul Haddad (Author) Publisher: Santa Monica Press Publication Date: 2024-06-18 Language: English Print Length: 404 pages ISBN-10: 1595801278 ISBN-13: 9781595801272 Book Description Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, ...
On this Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain by: Oliver Smith (Author) Publisher: Pegasus Books Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 256 pages ISBN-10: 1639368418 ISBN-13: 9781639368419 Book Description A lyrical and insightful narrative that presents a new approach to the idea of pilgrimage, traversing paths both ancient and modern.Retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of Ice Age to new pilgrimages of the 21st ...
Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women by: Vanda Krefft (Author) Publisher: Algonquin Books Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 320 pages ISBN-10: 1643753177 ISBN-13: 9781643753171 Book Description A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and...
Outmaneuvered: America’s Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan by: James A. Warren (Author) Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 336 pages ISBN-10: 1668004550 ISBN-13: 9781668004555 Book Description From a celebrated military historian, a highly engaging and thought-provoking exploration of why the United States has failed again and again in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan.Since the early 1960...
Slaveroad by: John Edgar Wideman (Author) Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 2025-10-07 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 1668057220 ISBN-13: 9781668057223 Book Description “Master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” offering “a fresh perspective of slavery’s impact and a confirmation of Wideman’s exalted status in American letters” (New York magazine).John Edgar Wideman’s Slavero...
Smoke & Spice, Updated and Expanded 3rd Edition: Cooking With Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue by: Cheryl Alters Jamison (Author), Bill Jamison (Author) Publisher: Harvard Common Press Publication Date: 2014-05-13 Language: English Print Length: 560 pages ISBN-10: 155832836X ISBN-13: 9781558328365 Book Description Cheryl and Bill Jamison’s path-breaking Smoke and Spice was the first, and remains by far the best-selling, book on real barbecue—slow-cooking over smoke—for home cooks. This new an...
The Great Architects of Mars: Evidence for the Lost Civilizations on the Red Planet (Sacred Planet) by: George J. Haas (Author), John E. Brandenburg (Foreword), James S. Miller (Foreword) Publisher: Bear & Company Publication Date: 2025-01-07 Language: English Print Length: 336 pages ISBN-10: 1591435161 ISBN-13: 9781591435167 Book Description A deep investigation of mysterious geometric structures on the surface of Mars• Explores a wide variety of anomalous structures on Mars’s surface that ...
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What’s Happened Since by: Stephen Mansfield (Author) Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Language: English Print Length: 246 pages ISBN-10: 1595550844 ISBN-13: 9781595550842 Book Description Based on an intriguing examination of the First Amendment, Ten Tortured Words embodies centuries of diverse American legal ideas on the role of religion in our society. The First Amendment ...