Charles Allen: 77 books
The Savage Wars Of Peace
Soldiers' Voices, 1945-89
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Since the Second World War the British Army has been engaged in armed conflicts around the globe in every year except 1968. Some have been full-scale military campaigns, but most have been undeclared wars, fought out in such widely differing theatres as Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Brunei, Borneo, Aden,...
Coromandel
A Personal History of South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.
This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring...
God's Terrorists
The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and...
by Charles Allen Gramlich
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
THIRTY TALES OF MODERN HORROR! In his newest collection, Charles Allen Gramlich, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, explores the dark territory of modern horror, from monsters, to serial killers, to the surreal landscapes of the insane mind.
by Charles Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest.
Leading the mission was...
Soldier Sahibs
The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men,...
by Charles Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on learning their sacred language. Sanskrit, that...
Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling
An Effective short-term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This groundbreaking book, now updated and expanded, furthers its original, effective, time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands. Dr. Charles Kollar presents a departure in pastoral counseling, showing that counseling need not be long-term or depend on psychological...
Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling
An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This groundbreaking book, now updated and expanded, furthers its original, effective, time-saving approach that benefits pastors overtaxed by counseling demands. Dr. Charles Kollar presents a departure in pastoral counseling, showing that counseling need not be long-term or depend on psychological...
by Charles Allen Gramlich
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Ginn Hollis was fourteen when her father's mysterious death left her alone on the planet Kelmer. She's grown up since then. Kelmer is a harsh world, an old world: its people are ancient, its civilization long fallen and dimly dreaming under a brown dwarf sun the natives call the Ember Star. But now,...
by Charles Allen, Glenn Pethel, India Podsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in?basket. The writing samples are organized according to the...
Where we Came In
Seventy Years of the British Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood switches from reckless optimism to demoralising pessimism, from years in which British films won the...
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...
by Dr. Charles Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Wisdom of the ages comes with time. We are taught to learn from our mistakes and in time we are able to grow stronger. And move on. For a school teacher about to be married nothing could be further from the truth. How she’s able to survive one summer when all of her hopes and dreams are bashed against...