Paul Hill: 38 books
The Norman Commanders
Masters of Warfare 911-1135
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Robert Guiscard, William the Conqueror, Roger I of Sicily and Bohemond Prince of Antioch are just four of the exceptional Norman commanders who not only led their armies to victory in battle but also, through military force, created their own kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Their single-minded...
by Paul Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
In the spring of 878 at the Battle of Edington the tide of English history turned. Alfred's decisive defeat of Guthrum the Dane freed much of the south and west of England from Danish control and brought to a halt Guthrum's assault on Alfred's Wessex. The battle was the culmination of a long period...
Reinventing Public Education
How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose...
The Panic Free Job Search
Unleash the Power of the Web and Social Networking to Get Hired
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Job seekers are frustrated. Online job applications through job boards and employer sites are leading to dead ends. Why? Employers are closing the last chapter on the online application playbook. Inundated by online applications and hampered by computer systems that are unable to select viable candidates...
by Paul Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A look at the famed medieval Catholic order, with an emphasis on military history—includes numerous illustrations.
There are many books about the Knights Templar, the medieval military order which played a key role in the crusades against the Muslims in the Holy Land, the Iberian peninsula,...
by Paul Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Speech and audio processing has undergone a revolution in preceding decades that has accelerated in the last few years generating game-changing technologies such as truly successful speech recognition systems; a goal that had remained out of reach until very recently. This book gives the reader a...
Unconventional Flying Objects
A Former NASA Scientist Explains How UFOs Really Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Paul Hill was a well-respected NASA scientist when, in the early 1950s, he had a UFO sighting. Soon after, he built the first flying platform and was able to duplicate the UFO's tilt-to-control maneuvers. Official policy, however, prevented him from proclaiming his findings. "I was destined,"...
by Paul T. Hill, Ashley E. Jochim
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
America’s education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school—something that large educational bureaucracies are notoriously...
Present Tense
Rock & Roll and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1992
The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings...
by Hill, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred and Athelstan, Æthelred and Edmund Ironside, what was warfare really like how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the Anglo-Saxon experience of war? As Paul Hill demonstrates...
Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom
A Guide to Unleashing Team Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Failure is always an option, and so is choosing to lead your team into an environment that helps them avoid catastrophe and pull off miracles. For more than fifty years, NASA’s Mission Control has done just that.
Take the ultimate insider’s look at the leadership values and culture that...
Online Journalism
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
"An essential guide for anyone hungry to learn how journalism should be practised today, and will be tomorrow. Hill and Lashmar encapsulate the transformative impact technology is having on journalism, but anchor those changes in the basic principles of reporting."
- Paul Lewis, The Guardian
"As...
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
Learning as We Go
Why School Choice is Worth the Wait
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. He explains why schools of choice haven't yet achieved a broader appeal and suggests more realistic...