Rod Andrew: 12 books
The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens
Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter,...
Long Gray Lines
The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms,...
Wade Hampton
Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal...
The Civil War Guerrilla
Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the...
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by Colonel Rod Andrew Jr. USMCR
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes over 9 maps, 23 diagrams and illustrations.
On 23 March 2003, 5,800 U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Corpsmen-the warriors of Task Force Tarawa-began fighting a ferocious battle in the city of an-Nasiriyah, Iraq. As the first large-scale battle fought by U.S. Marines in Operation Iraqi Freedom,...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
by Hama, Larry; Trimpe, Herb; Stateman
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Classic G.I. Joe Volume 12 continues the original run of A Real American Hero, featuring stories like "Probe and Feint," "Previous Agreement," "Counting Coup," and "Double Trouble." Collects G.I. Joe issues #111-123.
by Larry Hama, Herb Trimpe, John Statema
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Classic G.I. Joe continues the original run of A Real American Hero, featuring issues #101-#110, with stories including "The New Guard," "Amazing the Welkin," "Hero of the People," and "Apparent Conclusions."
Society, History, and the Global Human Condition
Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new...
Tabloid Tales
Global Debates over Media Standards
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing...
Strangers to Nature
Animal Lives and Human Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly...