Keith James: 65 books
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by James Holland, Keith Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the latest research and interviews with participants to bring colour, detail...
The Desert War
Book 4 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?
How did they blunt Italy's actions?
What challenges did they face?
And what new technologies were brought...
by James Holland, Keith Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.
Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful and authoritative account.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the...
by Joan Harvey, James Harvey, Keith Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In The SHADOW OF THE GUNS Joan Harvey recounts a unique life as an independent-minded girl growing up in the late 1800s. Although born in Bangalore, India, her early childhood was spent in Hobart, Tasmania. Left in the care of relatives in Hobart at a young age when her parents returned...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
The Eastern Front 1941-43
Book 5 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Part of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War series, The Eastern Front 1941-1944, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to the brutal confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along a 1,200 mile front.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws...
The Pacific War 1941-1943
Book 6 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2019
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Pacific: 1941-43 is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the Allied counter-offensive against the Empire of Japan and Axis forces in the South Pacific.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the latest research...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content...
by James Joyce, Keith Carabine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits...
Encountering Heaven and the Afterlife
True Stories From People Who Have Glimpsed the World Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
What happens when we die? What is heaven really like? How do spiritual beings--angels and demons--interact with us here and in the hereafter? Real-life, credible stories of near-death experiences and spiritual encounters gathered by the authors of Heaven and the Afterlife paint a clearer, fuller picture...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compares those missions with U.S. nation-building operations. The UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men-one...