Charles Jones: 56 books
Red, White, or Yellow?
The Media & the Military at War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
War has always attracted journalists, such as Ernest Hemingway in the Spanish Civil War or David Halberstam in Vietnam. And war reporting has often been controversial as well as influential, like William Randolph Hearst's "yellow journalism" in the Spanish-American War. But what happens...
by Charles Jones, Richard Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
From flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one chooses where they were born, and our ethicalobligations transcend national boundaries, then does patriotism...
Fulford
The Forgotten Battle of 1066
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This is a history of the forgotten third battle of 1066, the battlefield which until now remained undiscovered. Three weeks and three days before the epic clash at Hastings in 1066 between Harold II and William of Normandy, a battle of the same size and scale took place just south of York at Fulford....
International Relations
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Today, more than ever, we are buffeted by forces that originate from beyond our shores. Whether it’s war, economics, politics, or law, we live in a global world influenced by a complex landscape of international transactions. Esteemed academic Charles Jones ably provides the building blocks to understand...
by Charles Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
He never thought he would be an accessory to murder. He never thought his conspirator would be a computer. Enjoy this short story with coffee and a blanket!
by Curtis Austin, Charles Jones, Ava Kinsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This is the third volume in Judson L. Jeffries’s long-range effort to paint a more complete portrait of the most widely known organization to emerge from the 1960s Black Power Movement. Like its predecessors (Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party [2007] and On the Ground: The Black...
Historical Linguistics
Problems and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic...
War Shots
Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops.
by Charles Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition. Thus he argues that those...
Boys of '67
From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for Biography, 2006. Now available in paperback.
Be a Self-Starter: Don't Be a Cranking Machine
Don't Be a Cranking Machine
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
The topic of this book is, "Be a Self-Starter. Don't be a Cranking Machine". We are living in a world today where most people need someone or something to give them a real reason to be productive. Our body is the only body that we have to live in, so we cannot destroy it.
This little...
Grammatical Gender in English
950 to 1250
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period, there was a considerable time period, of about three hundred years, during which there existed "echoes" of the gender classification of nouns....
More Than Just War
Narratives of the Just War and Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate...
by Charles Dickens, Radhika Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features...