Cowan: 248 books

This monograph answers the question “What must an encircled unit be provided and do in order to successfully hold?” Following the end of the Cold War and the subsequent drawdown, the United States adopted a military strategy of force projection. Given this new strategy, any future adversary of...

" The facts contained in this volume are supposed to be purely historical, or rather not to belong to the natural history of Insects, namely, their anatomy, habits, classification, etc. They have been collected mostly from Chronicles, Histories, Books of Travels, and such like works, which, at first...

This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who use 'narratives of struggles' to describe the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the U.S. Academy. These narratives show how survival and success require a sophisticated...

Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe. Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case...

Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system. Examining...

Silent Terror has a powerful message for all adult readers. Treated cruelly by her mother Ilona's spirituality is rooted in her six-year old heart when she discovers the old rugged cross. Rape and rape attempts during WWII mature Ilona very quickly. Under the Communist regime she experiences theft,...

This memoir is the result of several years of a commitment to impart my unbelievable saga to the universe. The legend is the offspring of my fervent labor of love. It is the true and poignant narrative of a woman with emotional illness, named India, who becomes homeless in the fifth month of her pregnancy....

Touched by God is an eclectic collection of soul-searching and motivational poems inspired by the Holy Spirit. It has several chapters, each with its compilation of germane poems to uplift, challenge, and bless. Poems on prayer prepare the way, allowing faith to usher in the promise of Gods Word timely...

This book is not a work of fiction. It is a plain narrative of real life in the New Zealand bush, a true story of adventure in a day not yet remote, when adventure in abundance was still to be had in the land of the Maori. Every name used is a real one, every character who appears in these pages had...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...

The Complete Lojban Language is a complete description of the artificial language Lojban. It serves as a reference grammar for the language, offering an overview of the language, as well as linguistic details on every aspect of the language. This book serves as the standard defining the language design....

The purpose of this book is to teach nurses and other allied health professionals how to easily  and confidently interpret 12-lead electrocardiograms using the principles of pattern recognition.  We begin with some basic principles and then move on to more specific clinical...

The levels of information, conversation, wildly different places, circumstances, and points from which to view that you arrive at in your life just might be altered in your favor by studying this book (after a couple of rereads). You wouldnt say that you havent heard similar material if you paid any...

I want to show how two people meeting at a very young age and with very little support from adults and family locked hands and kept pushing forward. We persevered in spite of many obstacles, most of which we never thoroughly understood, and stayed together. We were really blessed from the beginning...