Glenn: 2058 books
The First Battle for Petersburg
The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War. Surprisingly few readers, however, are aware that Petersburg’s citizens felt war’s hard hand nearly a week before the armies of Grant and Lee arrived on their doorstep in the middle of June 1864....
River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign
Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this...
The Toronto Carrying Place
Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
Buried beneath Toronto’s streets is a centuries-old trail that was once the road to wealth, adventure, or violent death for thousands of travellers. Now its route lies hidden and forgotten under sidewalks and farmland, though its influence can...
Politics Reformed
The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Many studies have considered the Bible’s relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics...
EU and NATO Relations with Russia
After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Do the EU and NATO threaten Russian security? The book explores the rise of these exclusive ’inter-democratic’ security institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ensuing effects on relations with Russia. Two competing theories are tested to explore whether these institutions...
Quilombo dos Palmares
Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
For almost a hundred years, a nation of fugitive Africans, Indians, whites, and mixed races fought off the world’s most powerful empires in a struggle to survive in freedom.
Over the span of the 17th century, the Quilombo dos Palmares melded several cultures to form its own language, religion,...
Promised Land
A Nun’s Struggle to Resist Landlessness, Lawlessness, Slavery, Poverty, Corruption, Injustice, and Environmental Devastation in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Sister Leonora Brunetto lives and works in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso. In 1978, rainforest covered the region. Today, cattle pastures stretch to the horizon, their unshaded grass rippling with heatwaves. Ranches of tens of thousands of acres benefit single families who have no title to the land....
by Glenn Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Between cross-country practice, playing poker and running a high-stakes gambling operation, and keeping the NCAA committee at arm's length, Jim Money has a full schedule. No problem, Jim is young, smart, ambitious and operates on Red Bull and dedication. He's making money, puts his friends on payroll,...
by Glenn A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit into multinational corporations with significant political and economic influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. These companies relied...
by Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Wahlert
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
This book provides both practical touring information on Gallipoli for the independent traveller and a guide to the amazing First World War Anzac battlefields. Written by a serving Australian Army officer with over 30 years soldiering experience and now a historian with the Australian Army History Unit...
Big Fat Lies
The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2002
Do you believe that your weight should be within the range recommended by one of the various height-weight tables that are always appearing in books and magazines? That being overweight is unhealthy? That weight loss improves health?
Have you ever been told by your doctor to lose weight? Are...
Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the spring of 1846 James K. Polk announced that the Mexican Army had invaded United States territory and had “shed American blood upon the American soil.” This political rhetoric, as Glenn W. Price establishes in Origins of the War with Mexico: The Polk-Stockton Intrigue, is part of the myth...
Dusk to Dawn
A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In the past, landscape photography largely ended when the last light of dusk faded from the sky. Today it’s only beginning. The latest digital cameras have made it easy to create images of the landscape at night that film and early digital photographers could only dream of. Equipped with off-the-shelf...
Pomegranates of the Sun
1970-2007 - Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Andrew Glenn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1948. He graduated from The University of Minnesota where he studied poetry under Charles Wright and Thomas McGrath . He went on to study German literature at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Nuremburg, Germany. He is fluent in the German language...