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Indomitable Will

Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Charles Kupfer

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Indomitable Will

Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Charles Kupfer

Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American people faced a barrage of bad news and accounts of defeats and retreats. Yet if they were shocked and dismayed, they showed little panic. Indomitable Will resurrects the legacy of this first half-year of American combat during WWII -a legacy of pain, but not of woe. Historian Charles Kupfer recounts the story of the war's early defeats: Bataan, Corregidor, Wake Island, and the Java Sea. Some of these battles remain evocative today; others are obscure; all were catastrophes for American arms. Kupfer asserts, however, that later victories were made inevitable by the steeling effect of those initial disasters. Weaving together military, journalistic, political, and cultural histories, this engaging book shows that by setting their collective will on victory, Americans in and out of uniform gained strength from their setbacks. Indomitable Will spells out how the nation turned early defeat into ultimate victory.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441186638

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The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan Charles Brown,Alan Knight

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The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

By: Jonathan Charles Brown,Alan Knight

Second century of existence, Mexicans once again are reevaluating the proper relationship of state ownership and direction, foreign capital, and worker participation. The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century is a multinational effort - one author is Australian, two British, three North American, and five Mexican. Each contributing scholar has researched and written extensively about Mexico and its oil industry.

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348

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University of Texas Press

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0292765339

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9780292765337

Black Gold

Britain and Oil in the Twentieth Century

By: Charles More

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Black Gold

Britain and Oil in the Twentieth Century

By: Charles More

Oil and its central role in British and global history and politics.

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256

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A&C Black

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1847250432

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9781847250438

The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory

A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic

By: Charles H. Pence

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The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory

A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic

By: Charles H. Pence

The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic explores a pivotal conceptual moment in the history of evolutionary theory: the development of its extensive reliance on a wide array of concepts of chance. It tells the history of a methodological and conceptual development that reshaped our approach to natural selection over a century, ranging from Darwin's earliest notebooks in the 1830s to the early years of the Modern Synthesis in the 1930s. Far from being a "pompous parade of arithmetic, as one early critic argued, evolution transformed during this period to make these conceptual and technical tools indispensable. This book charts the role of chance in evolutionary theory from its beginnings to the earliest days of modern evolutionary theory, making it an ideal resource for evolutionary biologists, historians, philosophers, and researchers in science studies or biological statistics. - Analyzes contributions of key historical figures and assesses how and why these "foundational conclusions were reached by original evolutionary biologists, including Darwin, Galton, Pearson, and more - Describes the journey of the role of chance in evolutionary theory and illuminates our contemporary understanding - Presents the historical narrative in a non-technical way, focusing on the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory

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192

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Academic Press

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0323912923

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9780323912921

Loving God

The Cost of Being a Christian

By: Charles W. Colson

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Loving God

The Cost of Being a Christian

By: Charles W. Colson

Jesus tells us that the greatest commandment is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” But how many of us know what this looks like in daily life? Does loving God mean going to church, tithing, having regular prayer times? Is it a feeling in our hearts? A few years after Chuck Colson became a Christian, he realized that the more he learned about God’s love for him, the more he wanted to know how to love God. This book is the masterpiece Colson wrote after searching Scripture, history, and his own difficult experiences to answer his deepest question. He discovered that loving God is obeying God—rarely easy, sometimes inconvenient, often painful, and entirely satisfying. When we love God, we know the pleasure of living out our true calling. Billy Graham considers Loving God “one of the most spiritually satisfying books I have ever read.” Joni Eareckson Tada refers to it as “the complete volume on Christian living.” With fascinating stories and engaging theological insights, Loving God has been bringing people closer to Jesus for over thirty years. In this hour of opportunity for the church and for our own spiritual lives, Loving God will inspire you to love God with your whole being. It’s what you were created to do.

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Zondervan

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0310352630

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9780310352631

The Epistle to the Thessalonians

By: Charles A. Wanamaker

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The Epistle to the Thessalonians

By: Charles A. Wanamaker

The letters of Paul to the newly founded Christian community at Thessalonica hold a special place within the Christian tradition as possibly the earliest extant Christian writings. They are also of special interest not only for their theological value but for their sociological context. Among the communities established by Paul, the church at Thessalonica appears to have been the only one to have suffered serious external oppression. These two important epistles, then, speak uniquely to contemporary Christians living in a society often ideologically, if not politically, opposed to Christian faith. In this innovative commentary Charles A. Wanamaker incorporates what may be called a social science approach to the study of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, taking into full account the social context that gave rise to Paul’s correspondence. While Wanamaker in no way ignores traditional historical-critical, linguistic, literary, and theological approaches to writing a commentary -- in fact, at several points he makes a significant contribution to the questions raised by traditional exegesis -- at the same time he goes beyond previous commentaries on the Thessalonian correspondence by taking seriously the social dimensions both of Christianity at Thessalonica and of the texts of 1 and 2 Thessalonians themselves. In blending traditional exegetical methods with this newer approach, Wanamaker seeks to understand Pauline Christianity at Thessalonica as a socio-religious movement in the first-century Greco-Roman world and attempts to grasp the social character and functions of Paul’s letters within this context. A significant and original addition to the literature on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, this commentary will be valuable to scholars, pastors, and students alike.

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470

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467423157

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9781467423151

Doing Real Research

A Practical Guide to Social Research

By: Eric Jensen,Charles Laurie

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Doing Real Research

A Practical Guide to Social Research

By: Eric Jensen,Charles Laurie

Challenging the formality and idealized settings of conventional methods teaching and opting instead for a real world approach to social research, this book offers frank, practical advice designed to empower students and researchers alike. Theoretically robust and with an exhaustive coverage of key methodologies and methods the title establishes the cornerstones of social research. Examples reflect research conducted inside and outside formal university settings and range from the extremes of war torn countries to the complexities of school classrooms. Supported by a wealth of learning features and tools the textbook and website include: Video top tips Podcasts Full text journal articles Interviews with researchers conducting field research Links to external websites and blogs Student exercises Real world case studies

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401

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SAGE

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1473944295

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9781473944299

Outlaw Tales of Nevada

True Stories of the Silver State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

By: Charles Convis

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Outlaw Tales of Nevada

True Stories of the Silver State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

By: Charles Convis

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West.

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179

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762775874

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9780762775873

Where we Came In

Seventy Years of the British Film Industry

By: Charles Allen Oakley

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Where we Came In

Seventy Years of the British Film Industry

By: Charles Allen Oakley

Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood switches from reckless optimism to demoralising pessimism, from years in which British films won the highest international awards to those when they were dismissed with scorn. It recalls a score of productions still ranked among the world's best, and the stars whose reputation was established in them. Attention is focused on the directors, those who kept to the fore during two and three decades and those with only one major success to their name. Behind them the men are identified who strove, often to their considerable financial loss, to gain a worthy place for British films in the world’s markets.

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264

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Routledge

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1317928660

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9781317928669

The Constant Diplomat

Robert Ford in Moscow

By: Charles A. Ruud

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The Constant Diplomat

Robert Ford in Moscow

By: Charles A. Ruud

Robert A.D. Ford had a distinguished diplomatic career that included an unprecedented sixteen years as Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union during some of the most turbulent and important years of the Cold War (1964-80). Relying heavily on first-person testimony, including several interviews with Ford himself, Charles Ruud takes the reader behind the official announcements, revealing Ford's thoughts and actions as he dealt with what was then seen as the great arch-enemy of Western democratic nations. During his tenure as ambassador Ford was in frequent contact with Moscow's rulers and aware of their struggles, hopes, plans, and fears. Although they appeared powerful, Ford insisted that they sat uneasily on their Kremlin thrones. He showed their shortcomings and the flaws of their system at moments of apparent triumph and warned against miscalculating their strength. Shaped by centuries of Russian tsarism and by Communist ideology, Soviet leaders distrusted the world outside their borders and often failed to understand it, making mistakes and then compounding them, always without acknowledgment. The Constant Diplomat uncovers the experiences that informed Ford's capacity to understand the Russians and provides a clear picture of the evolving Soviet domestic, political, social, and cultural scene from the late Stalin era through to the end of the Brezhnev regime.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576045

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9780773576049

Book's by Charles Pearson

Indomitable Will

Indomitable Will

The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

Black Gold

Black Gold

The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory

The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory

Loving God

Loving God

The Epistle to the Thessalonians

The Epistle to the Thessalonians

Doing Real Research

Doing Real Research

Outlaw Tales of Nevada

Outlaw Tales of Nevada

Where we Came In

Where we Came In

The Constant Diplomat

The Constant Diplomat

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