Timothy: 2930 books
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
India, Iraq and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international...
The Fortunate Son
Top, Through the Eyes of Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The Fortunate Son recounts the parallel lives of an army brat and a group of Vietnam veterans who intersect decades after the war. The veterans open up to me, the army brat, perhaps in a way they never have with their own families. Why? Through my father, Top, their First Sergeant, we have...
by Timothy Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Ice girl lives in Banlung, Ratanakiri, Cambodia. She is a seller.Always be closing.She meets Leo, a wandering Chinese boy.He was released from a Chinese Re-education through Reform labor Camp near the Gobi.He walked to Sichuan and paid his respects to family. He walked to Fujian where...
Colonising Egypt
With a new preface
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1991
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
by Timothy Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common...
Lords of the Isles
From Viking Warlords to Clan Chiefs
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In contrast to most of Scotland, the north-western coast and the islands beyond were a region of mixed political control as well as culture into the sixteenth century. The divergent influences of Celtic and Scandinavian culture were more marked here than in the evolving mainland kingdom of Scots....
Kingmakers
How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
For a medieval English king, delegation was a necessary evil; and nowhere more necessary – nor more potentially disastrous – than on the Anglo-Welsh borders. The Marcher lords first empowered by William I were relied upon by subsequent Norman and Plantagenet kings to protect the dangerous frontiers...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe uses a wide range of both primary and secondary sources to chart the history of Britain and Western Europe, with reference to the Celtic world, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and North America. Extending from the middle of the fifth century to the Norman...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out differently.
What if,...
Queer Clout
Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively...
Contested Boundaries
Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1994
The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In...
Information at Sea
Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center (CIC). Data about friendly and enemy forces pour into this nerve center, contributing to command decisions about firing, maneuvering, and coordinating. Timothy S. Wolters has written the first book to investigate the history of the CIC...
by Timothy J Swann
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Unto is a novella of love, loss and redemption. It tells the tale of The Wanderer, a man who only exists by telling his tale of lost love, and a world where the future is bleeding into the present and many impossible things are becoming possible.
It was originally written by hand in a notebook,...
Canadian Climate of Mind
Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global. A Canadian Climate of Mind presents stories that emerge from the waters, lands, and climate of Canada,...