Charles A : 534 books
The Time of the Monkey, Rooster, and Dog
A Peace Corps Volunteer’S Years in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The year 1969 was a time of war in Vietnam; it was a time of peace in Korea, however, as an armistice held on the Korean peninsula, two thousand miles north of Saigon. Almost three hundred Peace Corps volunteers were serving in Korea then as teachers and health workers. In The Time of the Monkey,...
by Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Hell at 50 Fathoms, written by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, tells the story of submarine accidents of the United States Navy. It describes the bone-chilling experiences of valiant sailors who risked their lives to perfect underwater craft.
Vice Admiral...
Chinese Reportage
The Aesthetics of Historical Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
Chinese Reportage details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China. Reportage literature, while sharing traditional journalism’s commitment to the accurate, nonfictional portrayal of experience, was largely produced by authors...
Rocks and Minerals
A Guide to Field Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
Covering rocks and minerals form around the world—from brilliant Brazilian Aquamarine to Wulfenite from Arizona's Red Cloud Mine—this unique guide was created by Charles A. Sorrell for the serious mineral enthusiast or rock collector. Rocks and...
Paths to a Middle Ground
The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Spanish imperial attempts to form strong Indian alliances to thwart American expansion in the Mississippi Valley.
Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers...
by Dr. Kristen M. Shockley, Dr. Charles A Scherbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In Analysing Quantitative Data, Charles A. Scherbaum and Kristen M. Shockley guide the reader through Understanding Quantitative Data Analysis, Basic Components of Quantitative Data Analysis, Conducting Quantitative Data Analysis, Examples of Quantitative Data Analysis and Conclusions. An appendix...
by Patricia A. Martinelli, Charles A. Stansfield Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Garden State
Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Authors Patricia A. Martinelli and Charles A. Stansfield Jr. shine a light in the dark corners of New Jersey and...
Seven Faces
Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1996
Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. In Seven Faces, Charles A. Perrone charts the course of Brazilian...
by Charles A. Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
What would you do if someone you loved committed murder?Puerile man-boy, Neil Denton, thinks his life is ticking along just fine. Putting his recent failure behind him, he's retaking his degree in social sciences and earning money on the side organizing pyramid broadband sales (with most...
Days of Splendor, Hours Like Dreams
Four Years at a Small College in the Still North (1963–1967)
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In the 1960s, a young American president helped initiate the civil rights movement, captured the imagination of a nation with the establishment of the Peace Corps, launched the space age, nurtured the birth of the computer/digital age, and began the escalation of a war in Southeast Asia that exacted...
by Charles A. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
"Who is James K. Polk?" was a rallying cry of the Whigs during the campaign of 1844. Polk answered that question adequately by winning the election against his Whig opponent, Henry Clay. Today the question might be recast—respectfully, not derisively—"Who was James K. Polk?"...
A Texas Cowboy
or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads...
by Charles A. Siringo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Charles Angelo Siringo (February 7, 1855—October 18, 1928), was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Siringo was born in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian...
by Charles A. Siringo
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Charles Angelo Siringo (February 7, 1855—October 18, 1928), was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant father....