Gregory: 2919 books
Westmoreland's War
Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
General William C. Westmoreland has long been derided for his failed strategy of "attrition" in the Vietnam War. Historians have argued that Westmoreland's strategy placed a premium on high "body counts" through a "big unit war" that relied almost solely on search and destroy missions. Many believe...
Declarations of Dependence
The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations...
Whose American Revolution Was It?
Historians Interpret the Founding
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society...
Native Sons
West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues...
After Appomattox
Military Occupation and the Ends of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.
by Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, Ralph C. Croizier
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
This collection fills the need for a resource that adequately conceptualizes the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. These essays were selected with special emphasis on their comparative outlook. The chapters range from the British Empire (India, Egypt, Palestine)...
Benefit of the Doubt
Breaking the Idol of Certainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
In Benefit of the Doubt, influential theologian, pastor, and bestselling author Gregory Boyd invites readers to embrace a faith that doesn't strive for certainty, but rather for commitment in the midst of uncertainty. Boyd rejects the idea that a person's faith is as strong as it is certain. In fact,...
Nodding Off
The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Sleep plays a crucial role in our waking lives, and we need to start paying it more attention. The latest research tells us that it's essential for learning and memory, for mental health and physical well-being, and yet we tend to only think about it when it's proving a struggle.
Nodding Off...
You Don't Have to Try So Hard
Ditch Expectations and Live Your Own Best Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
My soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Psalm 62:5
Worn Down by the Pursuit of Perfection?
Are you hustling through life, struggling to meet impossible standards and be everything to everybody? Do you ever wonder if there's any rest on the other side of the rush?
With...
by Gregory Vlamis, Helen Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Animals / Mind Body Spirit
Millions of family pets, often otherwise physically fit and healthy, are put to death every year to give human companions peace and rest from their incontinence, unruliness, excessive noisiness, aggression, possessiveness, destructiveness or other inconvenience. A...
by Dr. Gregory J. Privitera
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
The engaging Third Edition of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences shows students that statistics can be understandable, interesting, and relevant to their daily lives. Using a conversational tone, award-winning teacher and author Gregory J. Privitera speaks to the reader as researcher when covering...
by Dr. Gregory J. Privitera
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Gregory J. Privitera’s Student Study Guide With IBM® SPSS® Workbook for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Editionincludes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines and key terms, essential statistical formulas, special tips and insights for students, and...
Differentiated Instructional Strategies
One Size Doesn't Fit All
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Your favorite differentiated instruction text just got better!
If you're in need of a single resource to put differentiated instruction immediately into practice, then follow the lead of 100,000+ teachers and look to Gregory and Chapman's ground-breaking text. With new strategies, updates throughout,...
Managed Speech
The Roberts Court's First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Our constitutional freedom to speak out against government and corporate power is always fragile, but today it faces unprecedented hazards. In Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, leading First Amendment scholar, Gregory Magarian, explores and critiques how the present U.S. Supreme...