A Charles: 534 books
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters
The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters
Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson & Samuel de Champlain
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
European colonization of America occurred as a result of the bravery and discoveries of great navigators, visionaries and adventurers. This carefully edited collection presents the lives of the most influential explorers of North America: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci,...
by Charles A Peek
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.
CliffsNotes on Catch-22 takes you into this unforgettable novel that is full of satire, exaggeration, grotesque and comic caricatures, and telling allusions....
George Santayana at 150
International Intepretations
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish–American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Santayana’s birth. Appropriately, the...
Anthropology of Los Angeles
Place and Agency in an Urban Setting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...
by Lisa V. Binckes, Charles J. Cavenee, Carol A. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they...
by Charles K. Reed, Chester A. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Here in one comprehensive source are all the age-old instructions for correctly mounting all kinds of game, from birds and deer to fish and beyond. The Complete Guide to Traditional Taxidermy will show you the pleasure of performing taxidermy work for yourself and the profit to be gained in performing...
Globalization in Africa
Perspectives on Development, Security, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This book presents critical perspectives on the impacts of globalization in Africa with particular reference to the crisis of development and governance, the crisis of peace and security, and the environmental crisis. It explores both global and local factors that exacerbate these crises, and seeks...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
by Colin R. Anderson, Mary A. Beckie, Eva A. Bogdan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Few things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to...
Textbook of Social Administration
The Consumer-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Textbook of Social Administration equips social programs managers with the skills they need to produce mutually desired outcomes for their consumers/clients and for their staff. This comprehensive resource is a how-to guide to developing the management abilities needed to maintain an effective client-centered approach by using a social programs fra
Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship and a supplemental website providing resources for hundreds of images, the book introduces key themes of modern...
Haunted New Jersey
Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
A fun look at unexplained phenomena in New Jersey, featuring information on ghost tours in the state.
Ray Guns And Space Babes
Boundary Shock Quarterly #6
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Pulp. Freshly squeezed. Throwing it back to bad 30's and 40's tropes and archetypes. Lantern-jawed heroes. Femme fatales. Scantily-clad princesses. Scenery chewing villains. And Dr. Basil Exposition in a white coat.
Join over a dozen of today's most exciting SF authors as they go old school...