Sam A: 47 books

Book cover of Why Was General Richard O’Connor’s Command in Northwest Europe Less Effective Than Expected?
by Major Sam E. A. Cates
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

General Richard O’Connor was the British VIII Corps commander in Normandy 1944. Previously he forged an outstanding reputation as a large unit commander in the desert of North Africa and this form suggests his command in Northwest Europe would be faultless. However, this was not the case. Some historians...
Book cover of Bomb

Bomb

The Author Interviews

by Bomb Magazine, Mary Gaitskill, Junot Díaz
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
Book cover of From Mediation to Nation-Building

From Mediation to Nation-Building

Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict

by Mohammad Ashraf, Elham Atashi, Linda Bishai
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013

The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Book cover of Developing Cross-Cultural Competence

Developing Cross-Cultural Competence

A Guide for Working with Children and Their Families, Fourth Edition

by Sam Chan Ph.D., Vivian Jackson "M.S.W., Ph.D."
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

As the U.S. population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honoring different customs, beliefs, and values? The answers are in the fourth edition of this bestselling textbook, fully revised to reflect nearly a...
Book cover of The Economics of Higher Education in the United States
by Jordan Hensley, Stanley N. Katz, Bruce A. Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...
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