Paul Taylor: 86 books
Facts and Fancies
Essays Written Mostly for Fun
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Witty and whimsical writings about the dance of life by the legendary choreographer.
This wonderful new book by one of the preeminent dancers and choreographers consists of a range of pieces of fact and fiction that run from thoughts on friendliness and country living to animosity and city life....
"Old Slow Town"
Detroit During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans....
The End of European Integration
Anti-Europeanism Examined
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it departs from its path of integration. Indeed, so far has it departed that it could be described as having entered a new reality. The original reality was that captured in the evocative phrase in its founding agreement, the Treaty...
Hackers
Crime and the Digital Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The practice of computer hacking is increasingly being viewed as a major security dilemma in Western societies, by governments and security experts alike.
Using a wealth of material taken from interviews with a wide range of interested parties such as computer scientists, security experts and hackers...
Hacktivism and Cyberwars
Rebels with a Cause?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and manipulate that flow also increases. In Hacktivism and Cyberwars Tim Jordan and Paul Taylor provide a detailed history of hacktivism's evolution from...
The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known
The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualties prompted many civilians to question the war's viability. Frustration exploded into anger when...
When Tigers Streak
The Michael Hart Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
In the mid-1990s, the Onondaga Central Tigers were on the brink of extinction. Contemplating retirement, coach Paul Taylor faced the low point of his career. After years of decline, the football program at Onondaga Central High School in Upstate New York had so few eligible players that they couldn’t...
Orlando M. Poe
Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2009
The first biography of Sherman’s chief engineer and the man whose post–Civil War engineering work changed Great Lakes navigation forever
Orlando M. Poe chronicles the life of one of the most influential yet underrated and overlooked soldiers during the Civil War. After joining the Union...
by Paul Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The wind had been roaring across the face of the planet for ten days with no sign of stopping.
It felt like it had always been there, and always would be. Eternal. Sometimes, if you listened closely, it seemed to form words. But it didn't pay to listen too long to those words.
The wind had way of getting into your head....
by Paul Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The wind had been roaring across the face of the planet for ten days with no sign of stopping. It felt like it had always been there, and always would be. Eternal. Sometimes, if you listened closely, it seemed to form words. But it didn't pay to listen too long to those words. The wind had way of getting into your head....
by Paul Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Detective sergeant Paul Mackenzie of the Durban Police Department arrives in London determined to solve the mystery surrounding his detective brothers death. Matthew Simon Richardson is a member of the British aristocracy who travels the world as a gun for hire, a sniper whose one motivation in life...
Digital Matters
The Theory and Culture of the Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Analyzing the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies, this book draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches (including sociology, media theory, cultural studies and technological philosophy), to suggest that the ‘Matrix’ of science fiction and...
Discovering the Civil War in Florida
A Reader and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official government reports by officers on both sides of the battle lines. Also a guide to Civil War sites you can visit. Includes photos and maps. Sites include: Fort Pickens,...
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.
America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our...