Ross (strategy, US Naval War College, Newport, RI), in a concise and knowledgeable narrative, describes the development in American war plans from the Spanish American War to WWII. It was during this
Steven Ross Smith is one of the preeminent sound poets in Canada. He is also one of the few poets in Canada currently engaged in writing a life poem (a long poem that encompasses a life)--Emanations i
One-time Central Intelligence Agency analyst Ross (Naval War Academy) focuses on the truly revolutionary military aspects of the French Revolution rather than the more vaunted political, social, and c
A provocative and engaging look at ten film-industry stars who illuminate the real impact of Hollywood on American political life In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells an important story
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have
Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter here tell the story of how the chemical industry, abetted by a compliant government, set loose a plague of pollution that began in the years before and directly followi
The persistent failure rates of complex industrial and large capital investment projects are a clear indication that traditional project management is not sufficient to deliver these types of project
Based on their ground-breaking book The Anger Fallacy, leading psychologists Ross Menzies and Steven Laurent have put together 35 simple, practical exercises to help rid your life of anger. In this wo
This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades. Adopting a mixed-method perspective involving micro-analytic approach
Journey into the nation's past with this gallery of 30 figures of history and folklore ? Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Annie Oakley, Johnny Appleseed, Casey Jones, Betsy Ross, and other characters.
Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explo
Explains how the best laid plans of US military strategists were scrambled by such factors as coalition politics, inter-service disputes, disagreements between field commanders and Washington, logisti
At the end of World War I the British Empire reached its largest extent in terms of territory and population. The government was reluctant to devote large resources to defense and to contemplate sendi
The A to Z of the French Revolution describes significant persons, places and events, encounters and battles, that substantially changed the nature of warfare at the end of the 18th century in Europe.
This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film.Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in th
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE "[Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding" (Los Angeles Times). No American city was mor
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles,
Lucullus V. McWhorter devoted much of his life to preserving the history of the Nez Perce and Yakama Indians of the Pacific Northwest's interior plateau region. McWhorter held a unique role as Nez Per
The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and jus
This book provides executives, managers and educators with a comprehensive implementation plan for implementing enterprise-wide lean. Using the Lean Extended Enterprise Reference Model (LEERM), it de
Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2013 provides an abundance of functionality and search capabilities for your SharePoint environment. It can be very overwhelming when trying to setup, configure,
A?one-stop record containing everything Angels fans want to know about their favorite baseball team, this resource is packed with anecdotes, history, explanations of traditions, statistics, trivia, an
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the de?nitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and Ameri
A life without anger is attainable — if you understand The Anger Fallacy.Anger is everywhere — behind everything from road rage to wrap rage, domestic violence to international confl
The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional compet
