Download or read book Your Body Battles a Broken Bone written by Vicki Cobb and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comic illustrations and photomicrographs that describe how the body heals a broken bone.

Download or read book Broken But Unbowed written by Greg Abbott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Republican governor of Texas describes the devastating accident that caused his paralysis, his achievements as Texas' longest-serving attorney general and his bold plan to restore America to international prominence through Constitutional improvements and leadership,"--NoveList.

Download or read book The Improbable Victory The Campaigns Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution 1775 83 written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated volume marking the defining point in American history. The American Revolution reshaped the political map of the world, and led to the birth of the United States of America. Yet these outcomes could have scarcely been predicted when the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. American rebel forces were at first largely a poorly trained, inexperienced and disorganized militia, pitted against one of the most formidable imperial armies in the world. Yet following a succession of defeats against the British, the rebels slowly rebounded in strength under the legendary leadership of George Washington. The fortunes of war ebbed and flowed, from the humid southern states of America to the frozen landscapes of wintry Canada, but eventually led to the catastrophic British defeat at Yorktown in 1781 and the establishment of an independent United States of America. The Improbable Victory is a revealing and comprehensive guide to this seminal conflict, from the opening skirmishes, through the major pitched battles, up to the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Impressively illustrated with photographs and artwork, it provides an invaluable insight into this conflict from the major command decisions down to the eye level of the front-line soldier. Published to coincide with the official opening of the new American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

Download or read book Lost Battles written by Philip Sabin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author's introduction: Ancient battles seize the modern imagination. Far from being forgotten, they have become a significant aspect of popular culture, prompting a continuing stream of books, feature films, television programs and board and computer games... there is a certain escapist satisfaction in looking back to an era when conflicts between entire states turned on clear-cut pitched battles between formed armies, lasting just a few hours and spanning just a few miles of ground. These battles were still unspeakably traumatic and grisly affairs for those involved - at Cannae, Hannibal's men butchered around two and a half times as many Romans (out of a much smaller overall population) as there were British soldiers killed on the notorious first day of the Somme. However, as with the great clashes of the Napoleonic era, time has dulled our preoccupation with such awful human consequences, and we tend to focus instead on the inspired generalship of commanders like Alexander and Caesar and on the intriguing tactical interactions of units such as massed pikemen and war elephants within the very different military context of pre-gunpowder warfare. Lost Battles takes a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity. Using his experience with conflict simulation, Philip Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to construct a generic, grand tactical model of the battles as a whole. This model unites a mathematical framework, to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies, with human decisions to shape the tactics of the antagonists. Sabin then develops detailed scenarios for 36 individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, and uses the comparative structure offered by the generic model to help cast light on which particular interpretations of the ancient sources on issues such as army size fit in best with the general patterns observed elsewhere. Readers can use the model to experiment for themselves by re-fighting engagements of their choice, tweaking the scenarios to accord with their own judgment of the evidence, trying out different tactics from those used historically, and seeing how the battle then plays out. Lost Battles thus offers a unique dynamic insight into ancient warfare, combining academic rigor with the interest and accessibility of simulation gaming. This book includes access to a downloadable computer simulation where the reader can view the author's simulations as well create their own.

Download or read book Darkness Battles written by Daryl J. Koerth and published by Rockin' K Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight is on. Despite his best efforts, the Sentinel and his team find themselves in the midst of constant fighting as the Second Civil War rages. It's a horrible situation for everyone. Death, despair, and depravity rear their ugly heads. The Sentinel must find a way to end the conflict before the United States is open to invasion from an old - and very ruthless - adversary. Can he do it, or will America sink into darkness?

Download or read book Battles of the Broken written by Anne Malcom and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Souls are interesting things. Not something you can prove you possess. Not something that can be measured, like a heartbeat. But something that can be destroyed by the absence of a heartbeat. No, you cannot prove you possess a soul. But once that soul dies, there doesn't need to be proof that you don't have one. Once that blackened pit opens inside you, the world can see it. The world cowers from it. Gage knew this because his soul was long gone. He was glad to be rid of it. He was filled with depraved satisfaction that he could make the world cower from him. That he could burn the world to the ground and he didn't have anything-like a soul or a conscience-to stop him. Until her. The woman who proved to him that she had a soul. That he might have something left of his. The woman who tricked the world, blinded it to the truth. Hid expertly what was broken and ruined inside her. Though he was about to prove that there was nothing more broken than him. No one more broken. He'd prove that by destroying them both.

Download or read book The Great Battles of All Nations written by Archibald Wilberforce and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constant Battles written by Steven A. LeBlanc and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, presenting a controversial thesis: The notion of the "noble savage" living in peace with one another and in harmony with nature is a fantasy. In Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological balance with nature. The start of the second major U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf, combined with regular headlines about spiraling environmental destruction, would tempt anyone to conclude that humankind is fast approaching a catastrophic end. But as LeBlanc brilliantly argues, the archaeological record shows that the warfare and ecological destruction we find today fit into patterns of human behavior that have gone on for millions of years. Constant Battles surveys human history in terms of social organization-from hunter gatherers, to tribal agriculturalists, to more complex societies. LeBlanc takes the reader on his own digs around the world -- from New Guinea to the Southwestern U.S. to Turkey -- to show how he has come to discover warfare everywhere at every time. His own fieldwork combined with his archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research, presents a riveting account of how, throughout human history, people always have outgrown the carrying capacity of their environment, which has led to war. Ultimately, though, LeBlanc's point of view is reassuring and optimistic. As he explains the roots of warfare in human history, he also demonstrates that warfare today has far less impact than it did in the past. He also argues that, as awareness of these patterns and the advantages of modern technology increase, so does our ability to avoid war in the future.

Download or read book The Battles of Matthusalem written by Andy Probst and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new planet, Kasa, full of races, landscapes, and civilizations, each one with a role to play on these adventures. Matthusalem has a gift well-developed on his childhood as a prince. He thinks his life has changed a lot on the past yearspoor guy. Join him, and discover what is next.

Download or read book The Twelve Great Battles of England Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Battles and Leaders of the Civil War written by Robert Underwood Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Broken Battles written by Sierra McQueen (author) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Broken Sword written by Phil Tomkins and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorcan Travis yearns for adventure, away from his quiet life on the family farm in rural Ireland. He joins the British Army, and after a traumatic voyage to North America, he finds all the action and adventure he could ever imagine, as he faces the cruelty and savagery of the Native Americans and the clash of armies in the rugged and wild country he has to operate in. He volunteers to be trained as an army scout by the Mohawk Indians, to live and fight with them against the French and their allies, the Algonquin Indians. The British soldier’s concept of the Indians is that they are heathen, murdering savages. However, in the fullness of time, he learns to respect them, their way of life and traditions. His story is strewn with the horrors of war as he and his Indian partner White Owl battle their way through the Seven Years’ War that helped the British achieve the prize of Canada.

Download or read book Battles of the Red River War written by J. Brett Cruse and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the collision of two cultures. In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. After this devastating loss, many of these Indians returned to their reservations and effectively brought to a close what has come to be known as the Red River War, a campaign carried out by the U.S. Army during 1874 as a result of Indian attacks on white settlers in the region. After this operation, the Southern Plains Indians would never again pose a coherent threat to whites’ expansion and settlement across their ancestral homelands. Until now, the few historians who have undertaken to tell the story of the Red River War have had to rely on the official records of the battles and a handful of extant accounts, letters, and journals of the U.S. Army participants. Starting in 1998, J. Brett Cruse, under the auspices of the Texas Historical Commission, conducted archeological investigations at six battle sites. In the artifacts they unearthed, Cruse and his teams found clues that would both correct and complete the written records and aid understanding of the Indian perspectives on this clash of cultures. Including a chapter on historiography and archival research by Martha Doty Freeman and an analysis of cartridges and bullets by Douglas D. Scott, this rigorously researched and lavishly illustrated work will commend itself to archeologists, military historians and scientists, and students and scholars of the Westward Expansion.

Download or read book THE BATTLES OF THE WORLD OR CYCLOPAEDIA OF BATTLES SIEGES AND IMPORTANT MILITARY EVENTS written by J. Douglas Borthwick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Battles of the World" by using J. Douglas Borthwick is a literary gem that indicates how clever the author is whilst writing historical fiction. Borthwick skillfully weaves charming memories with ancient occasions on this charming paintings, building a hyperlink between the beyond and the prevailing. The novel is more than only a dull list of battles; it is also a manner for readers to get knowledge and connect to each other. Borthwick attracts shiny pix of various times in records with the suitable blend of creativity and ardour, setting readers proper into the special landscapes of human experience. The book takes you on an interesting ride through time, searching on the complicated internet of feelings that come with important ancient activities. Borthwick is an exquisite storyteller who takes readers through extraordinary times and facilitates them join deeply with the people and the spirit of whenever. What makes Borthwick precise is that he can write complicated ancient stories in a way this is both stunning and smooth to understand. The writing style is both fashionable and easy to apprehend, so the exciting tales in "The Battles of the World" may be examine with the aid of a huge range of people. By publishing this work of literature, J. Douglas Borthwick now not best permits readers to enjoy an exciting tale, however additionally helps them apprehend the human experience higher in unique components of history.

Download or read book England s Battles by Sea and Land written by William Freke Williams and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twenty Battles That Shaped Medieval Europe written by George Theotokis and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the strategy, military equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. It gives a detailed analysis of twenty decisive battles, from the Battle of Frigidus in AD394 to the Battle of Varna in 1444, taking in such key battles as Hastings in 1066 and Bouvines in 1214.