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Book The Warmaker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Mahaney
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2008-03
  • ISBN : 0595481019
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Warmaker written by Bill Mahaney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC was one of the boldest mountain military operations of the Second Punic War, if not the entire ancient world. A master of warfare, he remains an enigmatic figure known mainly from descriptions written by his adversaries. In this unique work of fiction, Hannibal, a Carthaginian, member of a North African banking family and the son of a famous general, is accurately depicted as a strong leader who spent his entire life fighting the Romans. His restless, investigative mind, along with a deep love and appreciation of Greek culture, was nurtured into the Carthaginian war machine by his father and brother-in-law. Hannibal was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian Army by the troops in 221. In late spring 218, his army of 65,000 men and 37 elephants left Cartagena in Spain, subdued tribes on the fringes of the Pyrénées Mountains, crossed southern Gaul into the Rhône Basin, and marched across the Alps into Italia. The Warmaker: Hannibal's Invasion of Italia and the Aftermath provides a fictional account of the war master, and what could likely have happened, following his military success in Italia, had he decided to conquer Rome.

Book The Maker War

Download or read book The Maker War written by D. M. C. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you lived in a world where you could 3D print anything you wanted-in an instant? And what if you could, just as quickly, rip apart any object and break it down into the dust of the universe? In the not-to-distant future, this earth-shattering technology is the reality. Matter, not money, has become the key to power.Young Zavier Vik follows his war-hero sister into the Global Maker Corps to make the world safer. But, while Makers use their OzTech printers to create and build, their enemies-the Rippers-seek to destroy and take away what people have.The Maker Corps recruits cadets with conditions like ADHD, anxiety, bipolar, and dyslexia, knowing these are strengths that feed "fluid thinking" in battle. Zavier and his squad members must work together, think quickly, and hold back the Ripper threat.Action-packed, entertaining, and surprising, The Maker War dares you to imagine what could be, if you could create whatever you imagine.

Book Silver Queendom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Koboldt
  • Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
  • Release : 2022-08-23
  • ISBN : 0857669974
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Silver Queendom written by Dan Koboldt and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you owe money to the biggest criminal in town you are going to need to step up your thieving game a notch… --- Service at the Red Rooster Inn isn’t what you’d call "good," or even "adequate." Darin would be the first to say so, and he owns the place. Evie isn’t much of a barmaid; Kat’s home-brewed ale seems to grow less palatable with each new batch; and Seraphina’s service at the bar leaves much to be desired. As for the bouncer, Big Tom, well, everyone learns right quick to stay on his good side. They may be bad at running an inn, but they’re the best team of con artists in the Old Queendom. When a prospective client approaches Darin with a high-paying job, he knows he should refuse. But the job is boosting a shipment of priceless imperial dream wine, the most coveted and expensive drink in the world. And, thanks to a stretch of bad luck, he's in deep to The Dame, who oversees criminal enterprises in this part of the Queendom. If they fail, they’re as good as dead, but if they succeed… well, it’s enough money to get square with the Dame and make all of their dreams come true. Plus, it's an option for Darin to stick it to the empress, who he has good reason to despise. Then again, there’s a very good reason no one has ever stolen imperial dream wine...

Book Left Behind  The Public Education Crisis in the United States

Download or read book Left Behind The Public Education Crisis in the United States written by Paul L. Jalbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the harmful influences that the cultural, social, economic, political and ideological dimensions, in current ‘American’ society, have upon the delivery of elementary, secondary and university education. It examines the effects of poverty, funding at the local, state and federal levels and racial and ethnic discrimination. Arguing against the continuation of standardized testing—an ill-conceived methodology to measure the performance of children—the author advocates more one-on-one teaching and evaluation. He charges that students’ rights to education are not respected and, in elementary and high school, receive little in the way of instruction that translates into life skills and proposes what some of those skills should be. A critique of the extreme ethnocentric approach to education in the United States, Left Behind advocates strong instruction in the Humanities and foreign languages and the establishment of education abroad as a permanent program in high school and university. The author identifies Capitalism as the basic influence that, in the form of employing ‘business model’ constructs, has slowly transformed our children into obedient consumers. Physical Education has waned and become a major contributor to adolescent obesity. Seeking to replace children’s complacency with critical thinking instruction, the author demonstrates how the corporate mass media occupy their minds. He also fears the erosion of the profession of teaching by an ‘online’ instruction frenzy. The book explores the possibilities for a viable nation-wide education institution, in which decision-making is in the hands of teachers, parents and education experts, instead of politicians and business people. The remedies that could be taken up by ordinary people are accessible at the commonsense level; what prevents change are the lack of political will and economic greed, bolstered by the ideological power of the mass media.

Book The Game Maker s Apprentice

Download or read book The Game Maker s Apprentice written by Jacob Habgood and published by Apress. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Maker's Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games--complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play. Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl. The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so you'll glean understanding from their expertise.

Book A Mattress Maker s Daughter

Download or read book A Mattress Maker s Daughter written by Brendan Dooley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In explaining an improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gives way to the Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.

Book The Harness Maker s Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Kotz
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-25
  • ISBN : 0875655939
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book The Harness Maker s Dream written by Nick Kotz and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both historical study and ancestral narrative, The Harness Maker’s Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison’s journey to the United States in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews emigrated from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Seventeen-year-old Kallison and his brothers were among those brave enough to escape persecution and pursue a life of freedom by leaving their homeland in 1890. Faced with the challenges of learning English and earning wages as a harness maker, Kallison struggles to adapt to his new environment. Kallison moves to San Antonio, Texas, where he finds success by founding one of the largest farm and ranch supply businesses in south Texas and eventually running one of the region’s most innovative ranches. Despite enormous changes in environment and lifestyle, Nathan Kallison and his beloved wife Anna manage to maintain their cultural heritage by raising their children in the Jewish faith, teaching them that family values and a strong sense of character are more important than any worldly achievement. The son of Nathan Kallison's daughter Tibe, author Nick Kotz provides a moving account of his ancestors’ search for the American dream. Kotz’s work has received recognition by the Texas Jewish Historical Society for eloquently depicting the reality of life for Jewish immigrants in Texas during this time and delineating their significant contributions to society. Kotz’s insight into the life of this inspiring individual will prompt readers to consider their own connections to America’s immigrant past and recognize the beauty of our nation’s diverse history.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1939
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 722 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Neutrality Policy

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign AFfairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1939
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 658 pages

Download or read book American Neutrality Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign AFfairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Neutrality Policy

Download or read book American Neutrality Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers proposals to alter neutrality policy, including: repeal of Neutrality Act and its "cash and carry" provisions; implementation of strict embargo of war armament, scrap iron, and pig iron to belligerent nations; and re-affirmation by Kellogg-Briand Pact signatories of their commitment to settle differences via arbitration rather than war.

Book The 9 11 Commission and Recommendations for the Future of Federal Law Enforcement and Border Security

Download or read book The 9 11 Commission and Recommendations for the Future of Federal Law Enforcement and Border Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Makers of Modern Strategy

Download or read book The New Makers of Modern Strategy written by Hal Brands and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history’s most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani. With contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Davis Biddle, Hal Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel, Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim, Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan, Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken, Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M. Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms, Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara.

Book Coach makers  International Journal

Download or read book Coach makers International Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Public

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 684 pages

Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Their Maker s Image

Download or read book Their Maker s Image written by Mary C. Fenton and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlook

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Coach maker s Magazine

Download or read book The New York Coach maker s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: