Matthew: 5036 books
The Guerrilla Hunters
Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.
This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American...
The Art of Eloquence
Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people',...
The Wars of the Roses
The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the second half of the fifteenth century, for over thirty years, civil war tore England apart. However, its roots were deeper and its thorns were felt for longer than this time frame suggests. The Wars of the Roses were not a coherent period of continual warfare. There were distinct episodes of...
by Matthew Dennison
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life.
Inspired by the twenty-three...
The Poet's Holy Craft
William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The Poet's Holy Craft represents the first full-length analysis and interpretation of William Gilmore Simms's poetry. Matthew C. Brennan demonstrates the comprehensiveness of Simms's romanticism by examining Simms's poetics, his experimental sonnets, and his deep affinity to William Wordsworth, which...
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest...
by Matthew J. Clavin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.
The Four Signs of A Dynamic Catholic
How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As human beings we are constantly engaging and disengaging in everything we do. We engage and disengage at work, in marriage, as parents, in our quest for health and well-being, in personal finances, environmentally, politically, and, of course, we engage or disengage spiritually. If you walk into...
Rediscover Catholicism
A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Over the past 20 years, Matthew Kelly has seen more of the world than most presidents and more of the Church than most bishops. Now, in this unique and timely book, he proposes that Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations , but a way of life designed by God to help each person reach...
by Matthew J. Pallamary
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Spirit touches us in every moment of our existence; only most of us are caught up in the dramas that we have created in our lives, blinding us to a reality far greater than anything we can imagine with our rational minds.It is simply a matter of awareness.Though we often feel lost and abandoned in...
Engineers for Change
Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change....
by Matthew Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
A humorous short story recounting a young married couple's purchase of a house, and the plight of dealing with an insane neighbor. A rare comedy that could be used as entertainment... or as a warning!
by Matthew Condon
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Retirement can be murder!
The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland, along with half of the criminal milieu he once pursued, is shot, king-hit,...