The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor. Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time, Paperback - Bruce (US Naval Academy, USA) Fleming

Drawing on Elias' thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the indivi...

Based on the author's experience of teaching young men at a military academy, this book rejects the vocabulary and presuppositions of discourses su...

Contending that the Modernist project of the long 20th century is approaching exhaustion, with its remaining insights approaching triviality, this ...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

Reducere. Are you looking for hobbies that can be a favorite weekend pastime for young, old, and teens alike?Well, you can get 3 of them in a single book: Le...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

Reducere. Representing five years of research, The Battlecruiser HMS Hood is easily the most comprehensive book ever published on this great warship. Bruce T...

Diverse teams add tremendous value to any organization... if they work as a cohesive unit. Empower your leaders to bring together teams made up of ...

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Reducere. The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibran...

Publisher: Authors' Chance LtdAuthor(s): R. TurneramonNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 203 x 128 x 13Cover type: PaperbackRede...

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Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald HorneVirtually no part of the modern United States--the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutio...

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

Since the US Navy's beginnings, it has created, adapted, rejected, and sometimes grudgingly accepted new technologies. This entry into the Wheel Bo...

Vega Jane and the End of Time (previously published in the USA as The Stars Below) is the fourth and stunning final instalment in master storytelle...

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Reducere. Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more t...

Reducere. Emily Windsnap must travel through time in order to save the people of her hometowns -- both human andmerfolk -- in the exciting ninth book of the ...

Publisher: Regnery Publishing IncAuthor(s): Bruce GilleyNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 30Cover type: HardbackRed...

'Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.' It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exac...

Reducere. In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn th...

Reducere. The Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into understanding the secrets of consciousness, ancient history, and the very ...

Reducere. The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II. This definit...

In The Lost Cat, Pip discovers her superpower super-strength when she has to lift a car to help find a lost cat (Slink). This book is part of Proje...

Reducere. Suppose, you have to appear for an exam next week, who would be the go-to person for seeking help and guidance?Option 1 A Subject Matter Expert (SM...

Reducere. Together with God in the Garden (Genesis 2-3) Together with Christ in the Church (Ephesians 5-6) Corrected and Restored by Christ (1 Timothy 2-3) w...

Reducere. DescriptionThirteen-year-old Laila, still grieving over her father's death, goes on their planned pilgrimage with her aunt and uncle. When she is t...

Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into ...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and mariti...

Reducere. This thoroughly revised edition of Bruce M. Metzger's classic work is the most up-to-date manual available for the textual criticism of the New Tes...

Reducere. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the ...

DescriptionThis refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence is important both because ONI was the first official American in...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Includes an All-New Afterword. An unflinching account of America's most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America final...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower o...

Reducere. The Ship of the Line takes the best models from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to tell the story of the evolution of the ship of the lin...

Reducere. The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guada...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mark D. McCoyIllustration(s): 21 b-w imagesNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

* Completely overhauled version of the combined classic texts The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization. * Revised throughout, up...

Reducere. "NEW YORK TIMES "EDITOR'S CHOICE"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "RECOMMENDED BOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in t...

Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over...

Reducere. After crushing Japanese naval power in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf, the U.S. moved to liberate the Philippines. Admiral Morison describes a series of...

Reducere. As the Vietnam War reached its tragic climax in the last days of April 1975, a task force of U.S. Navy ships cruised off South Vietnam�s coast. The...

A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital Could 2008's c...

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

Reducere. When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an ins...