Barry: 2877 books

In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures,...

Fourteen year old Lee Parsons escapes from an English Boarding School in Kent, steals a pushbike and rides down to Dover, and from there decides to keep right on going, all the way home to Australia. It isn't really England nor the school that he is fleeing but his brutal, selfish father Trevor...

Wessex -- the ancient counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire -- is remarkable for its economic and social cohesion as a region, and for the extraordinary wealth of its ancient remains. In this authoritative survey, Barry Cunliffe sets the great monuments and famous sites...

A sudden accident and the destinies of three strangers—a young athlete, an immigrant mechanic and a doctor—are profoundly changed. Unaware of one another’s suffering, they struggle for years until their pain reaches a zenith. Then their independent lives are thrust inescapably together once...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.   In contemporary discussions of...

This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in the British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and political interconnections between nineteenth-century British imperial, Irish and Indian history. Barry Crosbie argues that Ireland was a crucial sub-imperial centre...

Uma organização treina jovens talentosos para controlar a mente e o comportamento das pessoas usando combinações específicas de palavras. Os iniciados deixam suas verdadeiras identidades para trás e passam a usar nomes de poetas.Identificada como um prodígio na arte da persuasão, Emily Ruff,...

“An accessible introduction to contemporary rhetorical theory and its applications in everyday life.” —Cory Brewster, Eastern Oregon University **Rhetoric in Popular Culture, Fifth Edition,**shows you how to apply growing and cutting-edge methods of critical studies to a full spectrum...

Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation...

We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human perceptions...

The product of his English father and French mother’s ferociously antagonistic genes, François Théodore Thistlethwaite is a traumatized, split-identity ‘Frenglishman’. Any one of his three alter egos – François, the Marxist Frenchman, the ultra-conservative Englishman, Thistlethwaite, or...

21 Years is an episodic crime saga following in the footsteps of Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Narcos, House of Cards, & Breaking Bad. "Nuthin from Nuthin" is Episode 4.

Originally written in screenplay formatting aimed at Netflix, it's been transposed into all digital formatting. As a result, the writing is tight, hard-hitting, and fast-reading. Designed to be visualized on your big-screen at home. Written in episodic format, eighty-nine episodes on the drawing...

"Mr. Jacobson, the old Jewish guy who lives on Bickford street, sniffs little girls' bicycle seats," eight year old Benjamin Carter announced cavalierly as though the topic made for polite dinner conversation. The family had just sat down to the evening meal. Grace Carter poured some gravy on her mash potatoes, cleared her throat and asked, "Where exactly did you learn this?"