Robert H: 655 books
Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars
Air Power in Kosovo and Libya
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
After the United States, along with NATO allies, bombed the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic for seventy-eight days in 1999, Milosevic withdrew his army from Kosovo. With no troops on the ground, political and military leaders congratulated themselves on the success of Operation Allied Force,...
For Jobs and Freedom
Race and Labor in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly...
Future War
Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead.
Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous...
Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy
The Milky Way and its Black Hole
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Written in an informal and engaging style, this volume traces the discoveries that led to our understanding of the size and structure of the Milky Way, and the conclusive evidence for a massive black hole at its center. Robert H. Sanders, an astronomer who witnessed many of these developments, describes...
by Dr. Robert H. Schram
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Dr. Robert H. Schram has been employed by BARC Developmental Services since 1977 as its Executive Director. BARC Developmental Services is a large community nonprofit organization serving people with intellectual disabilities and Autism. He has advanced degrees in Political Science, Counseling Psychology,...
Ancestral Journeys
A Personal Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Unlike most migrants within the United States who moved in groups, the forebears of Robert H. Stoddard decided individually to venture to new land in the Midwest. Fortunately, several of them wrote letters, diaries, and journals that were preserved. From these, readers can discern the influences of...
Sugar Has 56 Names
A Shopper's Guide (A Penguin Special from Hudson Street Press)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the newest edition of The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the U.S. government has – for the very first time – limited the amount of sugar that it is safe for us to consume. Yet sugar hides behind many names on ingredient lists, making it sometimes impossible to discover. Although "evaporated...
by Robert H. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The idea of revising what is known of the past constitutes an essential procedure in historical scholarship, but revisionists are often hasty and argumentative in their judgments. Such, argues Robert H. Ferrell, has been the case with assessments of the presidency of Harry S. Truman, who was targeted...
by Robert H. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Available for the first time in paperback, The Strange Deaths of President Harding challenges readers to reexamine Warren G. Harding's rightful place in American history.
For nearly half a century, the twenty-ninth president of the United States has consistently finished last in polls ranking...
by Dr. Robert H. Schram
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Musings of an Inveterate Traveler III is the personalized experienced of a pleasure traveler to: Costa Rica, China, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. It includes text referenced pictures, personal comments and insights, history, travel snafus, animals, plants, people, places, humor,...
by Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region.
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely...
Armies without Nations
Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua....
A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
The seminal text on rocket science that foretold the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1919
The seminal text on rocket science that foretold the Space Age
“Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.” wrote Robert H. Goddard in 1920 after a particularly harsh editorial in The New York Times made fun of his most recent efforts....
Understanding Audiences
Learning To Use the Media Constructively
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Understanding Audiences helps readers to recognize the important role that media plays in their lives and suggests ways in which they may use media constructively. Author Robert H. Wicks considers the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how messages...