Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, Paperback - Gary W. Gallagher

Reducere. More than 60, 000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was wo...

Reducere. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds...

Bartlett goes beyond Rorke's Drift to tell the largely forgotten story of how the Anglo-Zulu war was really won and lost.Publisher: Amberley Publis...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological "realities" are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the "rea...

Reducere. Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experie...

Reducere. Rocks and What We Know About Them - Geology for Kids Children's Earth Sciences Books, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective pa...

Reducere. An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of asc...

The end is just the beginning. The rapture is one of the simplest concepts found in the Holy Bible, yet there is a great amount of confusion and di...

Reducere. Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation ...

DescriptionThe six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as divers...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

The first and only insider account exploring how the US tried - and failed - to combat the global rise of disinformation that eventually spilled in...

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..

Definitive pop science from a world expert.

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About The Future of Work? is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues oft...

Reducere. DescriptionRyan, a physician, offers a history of the cure for tuberculosis, including accounts of the people and scientists involved. The final ch...

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of...

An introduction to the autistic experience told through the lens of special interests. Popular autism advocate, Pete Wharmby, takes us on a tour of...

Reducere. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football--or did we? Are ...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...

The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst ...

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What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration? Is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misr...

What's making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his c...

Popular podcaster and author Knox McCoy offers readers a unique blend of humor, Bible stories, pop culture references, and personal stories that sh...

Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to revers...

Paul Bernal addresses the issue of privacy on the internet and how it is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, ...

This book reviews what is known about the issue of slavery, and argues that the concept of "afterlives" is more helpful than that of "modern slaver...

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Reducere. DescriptionGrading is one of the most hotly debated topics in education, and grading practices themselves are largely based on tradition, instinct,...

About the AuthorBruce L. Brager, a graduate of George Washington University, is a writer who has ghostwritten dozens of books and published numerou...

DescriptionMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Gol...

Reducere. DescriptionWe need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views...

Although marriage is for grown-ups, very few of us are grown up when we marry. Here, the bestselling author of Suddenly Sixty and Necessary Losses ...

Reducere. DescriptionMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Gol...

Reducere. DescriptionMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Gol...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...