Jack Williams: 18 books
The Rigger
Operating With The SAS
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
For most people, climbing a ladder to clear the gutters is a challenge. Jack Williams and his colleagues in the specialist signals unit supporting the SAS in Northern Ireland had to climb towers and maintain vital communications - often in full view and under fire from terrorists. This is the gripping...
Taiwan's Environmental Struggle
Toward a Green Silicon Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid...
Hurricane Watch
Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by...
Cricket and England
A Cultural and Social History of Cricket in England between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.
Sport and the English, 1918-1939
Between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central place of sport in English life is brought into sharp focus, providing insight into issues of gender, class,...
Robert Recorde
Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical...
by Tennessee Williams, Jack Barbera
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based.
The Rose Tattoo is larger than life—a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama—it is a love letter...
Voyager
A Science Fiction and Fantasy eBook Sampler From Harper Voyager US
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Harper Voyager USA, part of the global science fiction and fantasy imprint of HarperCollins, presents Voyager, a free ebook sampler with excerpts from 15 new or upcoming releases, as well as an introduction from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey.
You'll find:
An Introduction...
From Conquest to Conservation
Our Public Lands Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
From Conquest to Conservation is a visionary new work from three of the nation’s mknowledgeable experts on public lands. As chief of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck became a lightning rod for public debate over issues such as the managemof old-growth forests and protecting roadless areas. Dombeck...
by John Joseph Adams, Dale Bailey, Jack Skillingstead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball
101 Great Hoop Stories from Players, Coaches, and Fans
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Fans will be inspired, surprised, and even amused, by inside stories from well-known coaches and players, fascinating looks behind the scenes, and anecdotes from the people who make it all possible – the fans.
Pat Williams has drawn on his basketball industry connections to compile great...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
by George Gladir, Greg Crosby, Craig Boldman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A Not-So-Cool Yule: Archie is having a stress-free holiday season, until both Betty and Veronica give him Òmatching sweatersÓ that they expect him to wear Ð the only problem is, the designs the girls chose donÕt match! "Cold Comfort": Veronica thinks Archie is being chivalrous about...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
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