John Francis Beeler's Books

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880

By: John Francis Beeler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880

By: John Francis Beeler

Against a background of rapid industrialization and economic transformation, the author describes the structure of British naval administration in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, assesses the important reforms of that structure by the Liberal politician Hugh Childers, and examines the strategic and operational contexts of the navy itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

404

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804729816

ISBN 13

9780804729819

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

The Illustrated History, 1836 to Today

By: Brian Solomon,John Gruber,Chris Guss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

The Illustrated History, 1836 to Today

By: Brian Solomon,John Gruber,Chris Guss

The first illustrated history of the people, machines, facilities, and operations that made Chicago the hub around which an entire continent's rail industry still revolves. In the mid-nineteenth century, Chicago's central location in the expanding nation helped establish it as the capital of the still-new North American railroad industry. As the United States expanded westward, new railroads and rail-related companies like Pullman established their headquarters in the Windy City, while eastern railroads found their natural western terminals there. Historically, railroads that tried to avoid Chicago failed. While the railroad industry has undergone dramatic changes over the course of its existence, little has changed regarding Chicago's status as the nation's railroad hub. In Chicago: America's Railroad Capital, longtime, prolific railroading author and photographer Brian Solomon - joined by a cast of respected rail journalists - examines this sprawling legacy of nearly 180 years, not only showing how the railroad has spurred the city's growth, but also highlighting the city's railroad workers throughout history, key players in the city and the industry, and Chicago's great interurban lines, fabulous passenger terminals, vast freight-processing facilities, and complex modern operations. Illustrated with historical and modern photography and specially commissioned maps, Chicago: America's Railroad Capital also helps readers understand how Chicago has operated - and continues to operate - as the center of a nationwide industry that is an essential cog in the country's commerce.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Voyageur Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1627884939

ISBN 13

9781627884938

Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

By: John W. Palmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

By: John W. Palmer

This text details critical information on all aspects of prison litigation, including information on trial and appeal, conditions of isolated confinement, access to the courts, parole, right to medical aid and liabilities of prison officials. Highlighted topics include application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to prisons, protection given to HIV-positive inmates, and actions of the Supreme Court and Congress to stem the flow of prison litigation. Part II contains Judicial Decisions Relating to Part I.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

978

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317523873

ISBN 13

9781317523871

Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870-1914

By: John C. Mitcham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870-1914

By: John C. Mitcham

A comprehensive account of how British race patriotism shaped the defense partnership between Britain and the dominions before the Great War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

110713899X

ISBN 13

9781107138995

Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C.

By: John DeFerrari

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C.

By: John DeFerrari

Washington's first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding it into the suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked and played. One of the most beloved routes was the scenic Cabin John line to the amusement park in Glen Echo, Maryland. From the quaint early days of small horse-drawn cars to the modern "streamliners" of the twentieth century, the stories are all here. Join author John DeFerrari on a joyride through the fascinating history of streetcars in the nation's capital.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467118834

ISBN 13

9781467118835

Player Development

The Holistic Method

By: John Cone,Gareth Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Player Development

The Holistic Method

By: John Cone,Gareth Smith

Player Development: The Holistic Method provides the first holistic, evidence-based performance development method in sport. Focusing on the world’s largest sport, soccer, this book weaves together the interconnected layers driving player performance development to define a novel training method. In performance sport, narratives defining success or failure are steeped with stories of chance. The reality is that player performance and athlete development leading to career success is the byproduct of optimizing interconnected experiences toward maximizing the likelihood of individual success. It is the application of a holistic method that reduces the influence of luck and increases the likelihood of individual and team success. This book is the pathway to understanding and facilitating individual player development leading to elite performance success. This book reveals not only a holistic method, but also a universal method breaking down perceived and real barriers to provide a method transcending domains and specializations – a unified approach. The book introduces an evidence-based method toward performance development in soccer. It is key reading for students of coaching, talent development, sport performance and ancillary specializations, and practicing professionals in the field of player and performance development and coaching.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000622053

ISBN 13

9781000622058

Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland

The Question of Fire Control

By: John Brooks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland

The Question of Fire Control

By: John Brooks

This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

529

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135765537

ISBN 13

9781135765538

Civil War High Commands

By: John Eicher,David Eicher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Civil War High Commands

By: John Eicher,David Eicher

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders. Numbering 3,396, they include the presidents and their cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies (regular, provisional, volunteers, and militia), and admirals and commodores of the two navies. Civil War High Commands will become a cornerstone reference work on these personalities and the meaning of their commands, and on the Civil War itself. Errors of fact and interpretation concerning the high commanders are legion in the Civil War literature, in reference works as well as in narrative accounts. The present work brings together for the first time in one volume the most reliable facts available, drawn from more than 1,000 sources and including the most recent research. The biographical entries include complete names, birthplaces, important relatives, education, vocations, publications, military grades, wartime assignments, wounds, captures, exchanges, paroles, honors, and place of death and interment. In addition to its main component, the biographies, the volume also includes a number of essays, tables, and synopses designed to clarify previously obscure matters such as the definition of grades and ranks; the difference between commissions in regular, provisional, volunteer, and militia services; the chronology of military laws and executive decisions before, during, and after the war; and the geographical breakdown of command structures. The book is illustrated with 84 new diagrams of all the insignias used throughout the war and with 129 portraits of the most important high commanders.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1062

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804780358

ISBN 13

9780804780353

The Bayeux Tapestry

A Critically Annotated Bibliography

By: John F. Szabo,Nicholas E. Kuefler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Bayeux Tapestry

A Critically Annotated Bibliography

By: John F. Szabo,Nicholas E. Kuefler

Commanding its own museum and over 200 years of examination, observation and scholarship, the monumental embroidery, known popularly as the Bayeux Tapestry and documenting William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in October 1066, is perhaps the most important surviving artifact of the Middle Ages. This magnificent textile, both celebrated and panned, is both enigmatic artwork and confounding historical record. With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written. Notably, the Bayeux Tapestry has produced some of the most compelling questions of the medieval period: Who commissioned it and for what purpose? What was the intended venue for its display? Who was the designer and who executed the enormous task of its manufacture? How does it inform our understanding of eleventh-century life? And who was the mysterious Aelfgyva, depicted in the Tapestry’s main register? This book is an effort to capture and describe the scholarship that attempts to answer these questions. But the bibliography also reflects the popularity of the Tapestry in literature covering a surprisingly broad array of subjects. The inclusion of this material will assist future scholars who may study references to the work in contemporary non-fiction and popular works as well as use of the Bayeux Tapestry as a primary and secondary source in the classroom. The monographs, articles and other works cited in this bibliography reflect dozens of research areas. Major themes are: the Tapestry as a source of information for eleventh-century material culture, its role in telling the story of the Battle of Hastings and events leading up to the invasion, patronage of the Tapestry, biographical detail on known historical figures in the Tapestry, arms and armor, medieval warfare strategy and techniques, opus anglicanum (the Anglo-Saxon needlework tradition), preservation and display of the artifact, the Tapestry’s place in medieval art, the embroidery’s depiction of medieval and Romanesque architecture, and the life of the Bayeux Tapestry itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

577

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442251565

ISBN 13

9781442251564

Book's by John Francis Beeler

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870-1914

Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870-1914

Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C.

Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C.

Player Development

Player Development

Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland

Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland

Civil War High Commands

Civil War High Commands

The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email