Savas Beatie: 172 books
Sacramento Kings
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The first NBA Western Conference franchise to be featured in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series!
THE TEAM: The Sacramento Kings are one of the oldest franchises in NBA history with one World Championship, nine Hall of Fame players, twenty-nine playoff appearances,...
Penn State Football
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
WE ARE . . . SPORTS BY THE NUMBERS. The new, exciting, and completely original book series continues with an in-depth look at the proud history of Penn State football.
THE TEAM: Rooted in success achieved through dignity and situated amongst the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania’s “T”...
University of Georgia Football
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
The first SEC Football Program to be featured in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series!
THE TEAM: The Georgia Bulldogs are the most beloved, tradition-rich football program in college athletics. Five national championships, two Heisman Trophy winners, 66 All-Americans,...
The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook
Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Surviving Boot Camp
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
How to prepare—mentally and physically—for life in the armed forces.
Making the transition from civilian to soldier can be tough. Knowing what to expect can help. In this guide, Michael Volkin, who enlisted in the US Army after 9/11—and found himself unprepared for the new world of the...
The Ultimate Air Force Basic Training Guidebook
Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Surviving Boot Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Air Force basic training is now more challenging than ever, both mentally and physically. In the past few years the Air Force has redesigned its basic military training requirements to prepare airmen for the ever-changing role the Air Force is now engaged in around the world in today’s War on Terror.
The...
The Ultimate Chief Petty Officer Guidebook
Tips, Tactics, and Techniques for Sailors Who are Serious about Becoming a Chief Petty Officer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
So you want to become a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy? That is a good and noble goal, but wishful thinking won’t cut it. It takes drive, initiative, and hard work. Anyone who has undergone the transition from Sailor to Chief Petty Officer will tell you it is a lot tougher and more...
No Turning Back
A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
“[T]here will be no turning back,” said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all.
With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending...
Hell Itself
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Soldiers called it one of the “waste places of nature” and “a region of gloom”—the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, second-growth forest known as “the dark, close wood.” “A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen,” said another. Yet here, in the spring...
Strike Them a Blow
Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For sixteen days the armies had grappled—a grueling horror-show of nonstop battle, march, and maneuver that stretched through May of 1864. Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant had resolved to destroy his Confederate adversaries through attrition if by no other means. He would just keep at them until...
The Alamo's Forgotten Defenders
The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Within the annals of Alamo and Texas Revolutionary historiography, the important contributions of the Irish in winning the struggle against Mexico and establishing a new republic are noticeably absent. Breaking new ground with fresh views and original insights, Phillip Thomas Tucker’s The Forgotten...
The New Civil War Handbook
Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
“This book triumphs on several levels . . . This is going to be my answer to the question ‘Where should I start looking at the Civil War?’ from now on.” —TOCWOC–A Civil War Blog
The New Civil War Handbook is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages....
Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War
Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Many thousands of books have been written about the Civil War, but only a handful cover the story of the Southern soldiers and sailors who wore the gray uniform and fought for the Confederacy.
Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War offers a complete guide for Civil War enthusiasts of...
General Lee's Immortals
The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
“An absolute gem of a history” for the Confederacy’s Branch-Lane North Carolina Brigade: “His clear and engaging narrative keeps the reader entranced” (Thomas G. Clemens, editor of The Maryland Campaign of 1862).
This storied brigade was first led by Lawrence Branch, and then by James...
by Robert Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
What is tomorrows Wall Street Journal worth to you today? Where is the line between reality and fiction? Are the financial markets really predictable? Does an ancient artifact hold the key to how some of the worlds wealthiest families made their fortunes? When a mysterious granite and cypress Egyptian...