Robert Powell: 64 books

Classroom Communication and Diversity provides a useful framework for helping both new and experienced teachers and instructors navigate the communication challenges in today’s diverse classroom. It encourages teachers to reflect on how their personal cultures influence their expectations regarding...

In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the...

In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. But what completely surprised Baden-Powell was that his book was eagerly taken up by teachers and youth groups to help organize outdoor activities and sport. He eventually embraced the...

More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...

A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald).   Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams...

According to Wikipedia: "Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, (22 February 1857 8 January 1941)..., was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement.... Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance...

Written by Robert Baden-Powell, Lieutenant General in the British Army and founder of the international Scouting movement, Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential manuals for youth ever published. First printed in 1908, it remains an all-time bestseller in the English-speaking world, second...

Written during the first years of World War I by a British military hero, this charming volume introduces the essentials of spycraft. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and storyteller extraordinaire, developed his spying skills in South Africa and conducted some of his most inspired...

This classic tale of spies and spymasters is lavishly illustrated with over 35 period images to enhance the readers experience. Read, look, enjoy! You’ll find images of his cyphers, his disguises and the man himself. You think he was the ultimate Boy Scout, but before Robert Baden-Powell founded...

Drawing on Baden-Powell's extensive archive, Playing the Game is a rich and evocative selection of his writings, on peace - a major theme throughout his career and the theme of the 2007 centenary celebrations, on his own life, from his wonderfull idiosyncratic anecdotal autobiography and includes...

Soon after the beginning of the 'Great War', Sir Robert Baden-Powell published his 9th military title, Quick Training For War, as his personal contribution to the British war effort. Having previously retired from service in 1910 to promote the Scouting movement, this short manual promoted his ideas...

The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.

My Adventures as a Spy is an autobiographical account of Recounts Baden-Powell which describes his escapades as a spy in British military secret service and sheds some light on the art of spying. Baden-Powell lists different types of spies and offers a rudimentary course in scouting and spying, with a handful of insights.

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. My Adventures as a Spy is an autobiographical account of Recounts Baden-Powell which describes his escapades as a spy in British military secret service and sheds some light on the art of spying....