Media Publishing: 453 books
Strategy Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Sea Power, Xerxes, Joan of Arc, Elements of Military Art and Science, Andrew Jackson, Aircrafts and Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
- Michael Porter.
Strategy Six Pack 3 presents a classic sextet of tactical texts:
Sea Power by Cyprian Bridge.
Xerxes by Jacob Abbott.
Joan of Arc by Edward Shepherd Creasy.
Elements of Military Art and Science by H. W. Halleck.
Andrew...
Strategy Six Pack 12 (Illustrated)
A Short History of Rome, Nero, The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813, The Rights of Man, Nat Turner and Travels into Bokhara
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
“Hidden talent counts for nothing.”
- Nero.
Strategy Six Pack 12 presents six historical texts spanning two millennia and three continents. Ancient Rome and the Americas get two books each: Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of Rome is paired with Jacob Abbott’s biography of Emperor...
by Michael DeMarco, Daniel Rosenberg, John Donohue
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This two-volume anthology conveniently contains useful academic tools for studying the combative arts. Each chapter will prove special to all interested in the intellectual side to the martial arts. Some chapters provide fine details for categorizing the variety of what we commonly refer to as "martial...
by Matt Hlinak, Geoffrey Wingard, Joseph Svinth
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The origins of Asian martial arts in the United States reach back to the Pacific Rim and immigration. This anthology is dedicated to the profoundly significant period—roughly from mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century—in which gifted Japanese taught...
Judo Kata
Practice, Competition, Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The practice of judo katas has changed over time as a result of perceived purpose. The chapters in this anthology were written by seven authorities in judo history and practice. Their writings clarify the purpose of kata and thus its mode of practice and their place in...
Founding Fathers Four Pack
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Essay on John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Founding Fathers Four Pack includes the American classic The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the lesser-known concise Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Charles A. Conant and an insightful essay on John Jay by Elbert Hubbard.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Volumes I and II
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by 2nd Century Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is our key primary source for biographical information of the first twelve rulers of ancient Rome - Emperors Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus...
by Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Originally composed for propaganda purposes, Julius Caesar’s war diary is one of the earliest examples of a military science manual, detailing arms technology, tactical maneuvers, battlefield politics, espionage, intelligence and even the role played by luck in ground and sea campaigns.
by George P. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Coral Comes High is Captain George P. Hunt's account of what happened to himself and his company during the initial stages of the Peleliu invasion by the US Marines during World War 2. The company sustains terrible casualties and is isolated in a seemingly hopeless position for a nightmare forty-eight...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) credited Thoreau's essay with being "the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America."
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 (Illustrated)
Six Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 presents six classics of the genre:
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft and Ellen Craft.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley.
The Life of Josiah...
by Douay Rheims
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The name Maccabee in Hebrew, means "hammer". This is properly applied to the first leader of the revolt, Judas, third son of Mattathias, whose attacks were "hammer-like". The name came to be used for his brothers as well, which accounts for the title of the book.
The text...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)
My Life in the South, The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Army Life in a Black Regiment, John Brown, An Anti-Slavery Crusade and Henry Ward Beecher
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 presents six more essential texts:
My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer.
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane.
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David...
Stoic Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
- Epicurus.
Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the philosophy propounded...