Christopher: 7927 books
Uncle Sam Wants You
World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase...
by Christopher C. Horner
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
InThe Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes--and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more...
Harry Hopkins
FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Analyzing Hopkins’s role in wartime diplomacy and his personal relationships with the 20th Century’s most indispensable leaders, historian Christopher O’Sullivan offers...
by Christopher Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait of what it looked and felt like growing up in...
by Christopher Kremmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
THE CARPET WARS is foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's riveting and timely account of a decade spent living, travelling and reporting from Asia and the Middle East. During his time reporting from Asia and the Middle East he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession...
Moral Capital
Foundations of British Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment...
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering...
The French Atlantic Triangle
Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In...
by Prof. Dr. Christopher Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1948 is the corner stone on which all Human Rights are built and strengthened. It is generally referred to as the Magna Carta of the modern world for all humanity for civil, political, economic, social and cultural...
American Pendulum
Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see similarities between an administration and its...
by Christopher J. Kam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
One of the chief tasks facing political leaders is to build and maintain unity within their parties. This text examines the relationship between party leaders and Members of Parliament in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, showing how the two sides interact and sometimes clash. Christopher...
suicide notes
the short works of christopher brett bailey
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
a linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic cartoons,
crackpot prophecies and demented erotica.
a dense, poetic blend of the hallucinogenic
and the hardboiled... dirty jokes, venomous
poetry and tall tales that corkscrew deep into
nightmares. a short story etc. collection for
the depraved, the depressed and the death
obsessed.
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
What is the connection between philosophy and law--or, more specifically, the common law? Moreover, what actually is the specific philosophy that can hold the common law (thus our rights) in place? Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University...