Roger Hammond's Books

Ways and Means

Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

By: Roger Lowenstein

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ways and Means

Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

By: Roger Lowenstein

“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal “Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives . . . Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who lack specialized knowledge.” —Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review From renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunity—the chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the “more perfect union” that had first drawn him to politics. With Lincoln at the helm, the United States would now govern “for” its people: it would enact laws, establish a currency, raise armies, underwrite transportation and higher education, assist farmers, and impose taxes for them. Lincoln believed this agenda would foster the economic opportunity he had always sought for upwardly striving Americans, and which he would seek in particular for enslaved Black Americans. Salmon Chase, Lincoln’s vanquished rival and his new secretary of the Treasury, waged war on the financial front, levying taxes and marketing bonds while desperately battling to contain wartime inflation. And while the Union and Rebel armies fought increasingly savage battles, the Republican-led Congress enacted a blizzard of legislation that made the government, for the first time, a powerful presence in the lives of ordinary Americans. The impact was revolutionary. The activist 37th Congress legislated for homesteads and a transcontinental railroad and involved the federal government in education, agriculture, and eventually immigration policy. It established a progressive income tax and created the greenback—paper money. While the Union became self-sustaining, the South plunged into financial free fall, having failed to leverage its cotton wealth to finance the war. Founded in a crucible of anticentralism, the Confederacy was trapped in a static (and slave-based) agrarian economy without federal taxing power or other means of government financing, save for its overworked printing presses. This led to an epic collapse. Though Confederate troops continued to hold their own, the North’s financial advantage over the South, where citizens increasingly went hungry, proved decisive; the war was won as much (or more) in the respective treasuries as on the battlefields. Roger Lowenstein reveals the largely untold story of how Lincoln used the urgency of the Civil War to transform a union of states into a nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and a Congress studded with towering statesmen, changed the direction of the country and established a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

457

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0735223572

ISBN 13

9780735223578

Blue Smoke

The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy

By: Roger House

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blue Smoke

The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy

By: Roger House

A contemporary of blues greats Blind Blake, Tampa Red, and Papa Charlie Jackson, Chicago blues artist William "Big Bill" Broonzy influenced an array of postwar musicians, including Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, and J. B. Lenoir. In Blue Smoke, Roger House tells the extraordinary story of "Big Bill," a working-class bluesman whose circumstances offer a window into the dramatic social transformations faced by African Americans during the first half of the twentieth century. One in a family of twenty-one children and reared by sharecropper parents in Mississippi, Broonzy seemed destined to stay on the land. He moved to Arkansas to work as a sharecropper, preacher, and fiddle player, but the army drafted him during World War I. After his service abroad, Broonzy, like thousands of other black soldiers, returned to the racism and bleak economic prospects of the Jim Crow South and chose to move North to seek new opportunities. After learning to play the guitar, he performed at neighborhood parties in Chicago and in 1927 attracted the attention of Paramount Records, which released his first single, "House Rent Stomp," backed by "Big Bill's Blues." Over the following decades, Broonzy toured the United States and Europe. He released dozens of records but was never quite successful enough to give up working as a manual laborer. Many of his songs reflect this experience as a blue-collar worker, articulating the struggles, determination, and optimism of the urban black working class. Before his death in 1958, Broonzy finally achieved crossover success as a key player in the folk revival movement led by Pete Seeger and Alan Lomax, and as a blues ambassador to British musicians such as Lonnie Donegan and Eric Clapton. Weaving Broonzy's recordings, writings, and interviews into a compelling narrative of his life, Blue Smoke offers a comprehensive portrait of an artist recognized today as one of the most prolific and influential working-class blues musicians of the era.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

418

Publisher

LSU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807145998

ISBN 13

9780807145999

Masters of the Air

The Great War Pilots McLeod, McKeever, and MacLaren

By: Roger Gunn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Masters of the Air

The Great War Pilots McLeod, McKeever, and MacLaren

By: Roger Gunn

First World War pilots Alan McLeod, Andrew McKeever, and Donald MacLaren had incredible skills and ability in the air. Each was distinctively different from the other — in personality, in the planes they flew, and in their contribution to the war effort.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Dundurn

Published Date

ISBN 10

1459745493

ISBN 13

9781459745490

Remedies in Construction Law

By: Roger ter Haar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Remedies in Construction Law

By: Roger ter Haar

Remedies in Construction Law brings together various well-established strands of the law and considers practical remedies for breach of contract and tort in connection with construction projects. Now in a fully updated second edition, it covers topics such as: Damages Termination Quantum Meruit Recovery Injunctions Limitation ADR This book continues to be a vital reference to lawyers and construction professionals seeking specialist insight into how remedies function in the construction sector.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

588

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317194942

ISBN 13

9781317194941

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

By: Roger Tory Peterson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

By: Roger Tory Peterson

A new edition of the best-selling field guide with 25 all-new plates covering the birds of Hawaii. For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Now that the American Birding Association has expanded its species Checklist to include Hawaii, the Peterson Guide is the first edition to include the wonderful and exotic species of our fiftieth state. In addition, the text and range maps have been updated, and much of the art has been touched up to reflect current knowledge.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

529

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

132877144X

ISBN 13

9781328771445

Speedball

The Masked Marvel

By: Steve Ditko,Roger Stern,Jo Duffy,Tom Defalco,Hollis Bright,Fabian Nicieza

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Speedball

The Masked Marvel

By: Steve Ditko,Roger Stern,Jo Duffy,Tom Defalco,Hollis Bright,Fabian Nicieza

Collects Speedball #1-10 And material from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22, Marvel Age Annual #4, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #14 And #56 And Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #1-2 And #5-6. Few creators have left their mark like the inimitable Steve Ditko. His unmistakable creative vision brought the world the Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and, in 1988, Speedball! Together with writers Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco and Jo Duffy, Ditko crafted the adventures of Robbie Baldwin, a high school student with strange other-dimensional powers that create an energetic kinetic field, transforming him into Speedball! In the classic Ditko style, Baldwins life is complicated his father is a district attorney with no love for costumed vigilantes, and there is serious marital strife between Robbies parents. This complete collection brings together every Steve Ditko tale of the future New Warriors superstar for the first time!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

327

Publisher

Marvel Entertainment

Published Date

ISBN 10

1302513737

ISBN 13

9781302513733

Jade

By: Roger Keverne

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jade

By: Roger Keverne

FOREWORD RECUMBENT HORSE Chinese, Ming Dynasty. 1 Length: 3 /2 in (9 em). The formation of the head with its marked convexity of outline resembles that of one depicted on a mural painting in a Northern Song tomb, discovered at Pai-Sha in Honan. Despite its size, this horse has a strong sculptural quality. Worked from pale green jade with light brown markings. t has been said that a single daily issue of a newspaper effort to survey the jade scene worldwide. These volumes such as The New York Times, Neue Zurcher Zeitung or Le were bigger than was necessary considering the amount of Monde contains more information than someone text included (measuring 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 46 cm, and living in the 17th century would have faced in a lifetime. weighing 110 lb (50 kg) together), and Bishop was not Jade scholarship cannot escape the information explosion interested in wide dissemination of the subject. He printed of our century. Our knowledge on the subject of jade has only 106 copies, none of which was for sale, and then des been radically expanded in two directions, from the past troyed the plates. The copies were sent to important libra and in the present, and a definitive survey bringing together ries, museums and crowned heads around the world. As the latest research from around the world is long overdue.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

377

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1461539226

ISBN 13

9781461539223

One Kind of Freedom

The Economic Consequences of Emancipation

By: Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

One Kind of Freedom

The Economic Consequences of Emancipation

By: Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch

This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of works in Southern history published since the appearance of the first edition. The book examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economic life of the United States following the Civil War. The authors contend that although the kind of freedom permitted to black Americans allowed substantial increases in their economic welfare, it effectively curtailed further black advancement and retarded Southern economic development. Quantitative data are used to describe the historical setting but also shape the authors' economic analysis and test the appropriateness of their interpretations. Ransom and Sutch's revised findings enrich the picture of the era and offer directions for future research.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

492

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521795508

ISBN 13

9780521795500

Myopia

Animal Models to Clinical Trials

By: Roger W. Beuerman,Seang Mei Saw

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Myopia

Animal Models to Clinical Trials

By: Roger W. Beuerman,Seang Mei Saw

Myopia is the most common optical disorder in the world, and is on the rise in all parts of the world. The impact of myopia is evident as the driving force in the development of refractive surgery and of the eye glass and contact lens industries. Clearly, it is a lifestyle issue as well as a childhood disease that involves an unresolved problem in genetics. In Singapore (where myopia has reached the highest rates in the world) as well as in Taiwan and Japan, the affected group has developed greater degrees of myopia, leading to additional secondary effects on vision including blindness. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of myopia. It is aimed at ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians, scientists and pharmaceutical companies. The topics are uniquely treated in that they cover research at the laboratory bench as well as clinical applications. By maintaining a high level of research activity, future generations may be able to forego optical aids altogether.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

9812832971

ISBN 13

9789812832979

English Folk Poetry

Structure and Meaning

By: Roger deV. Renwick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

English Folk Poetry

Structure and Meaning

By: Roger deV. Renwick

Drawing on the long tradition of folklore study, Roger deV. Renwick examines three genres: traditional English folksongs, local songs of regional interest, and working-class poetry. In the span of time that extends from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, he finds govern world views underlying a large sampling of poems related by common language, imagery, or topic, and then shows how these world views relate to the everyday lives and beliefs of the poetry's makers and users. There is, in addition, a pattern of historical continuity that links the rural folksongs of the eighteenth century with the part-rural, part-urban local songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and with the fully urban working-class poetry of the present day. English Folk Poetry is an immensely important contribution to folklore scholarship in its examination of contemporary working-class poetry, in its approach to questions of tacit meaning, and in its exploration of the relationship of inferential meanings to real, everyday lives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1512806064

ISBN 13

9781512806069

Giacomo Puccini

A Discography

By: Roger Flury

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Giacomo Puccini

A Discography

By: Roger Flury

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo Puccini: A Discography, librarian and music historian Roger Flury looks at each opera chronologically from Le Villi to Turandot, followed by sections on Puccini's instrumental, chamber, orchestral, and solo vocal works. Details of each complete opera are listed by recording date, followed by excerpts in the order in which they occur in the opera. Recordings of each aria are listed alphabetically by the name of the artist. For ease of use, Flury establishes as the main criteria for inclusion those recordings assigned a commercial issue number and available for purchase. This book does not limit itself to mainstream recordings but includes as well 'unofficial' recordings taken from broadcasts or illegally recorded in theaters, ensuring that the audio recording history of Puccini is free of gaps. (Video and DVD issues, whether of staged performances or excerpts in concert, are not included unless they have been issued in a sound-only format.) This volume brings together information on nearly 10,000 recordings of Puccini's music. It provides a comprehensive overview of the recorded history of the composer's works and serves as a useful guide for the transfer of recordings from one format to another.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

937

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810883295

ISBN 13

9780810883291

Houses of the Founding Fathers

By: Hugh Howard,Roger Straus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Houses of the Founding Fathers

By: Hugh Howard,Roger Straus

A thought-provoking tour of the eighteenth-century houses belonging to some of America's most important early leaders looks inside the domestic world of the Founding Fathers to chronicle the private lives, families, culture, interests, and aspirations of Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and others in each of the original thirteen colonies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

376

Publisher

Artisan Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1579652751

ISBN 13

9781579652753

Plant Virology

By: Roger Hull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Plant Virology

By: Roger Hull

The seminal text Plant Virology is now in its fifth edition. It has been 10 years since the publication of the fourth edition, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual and factual advances. The fifth edition of Plant Virology updates and revises many details of the previous edition while retaining the important earlier results that constitute the field's conceptual foundation. Revamped art, along with fully updated references and increased focus on molecular biology, transgenic resistance, aphid transmission, and new, cutting-edge topics, bring the volume up to date and maintain its value as an essential reference for researchers and students in the field. - Thumbnail sketches of each genera and family groups - Genome maps of all genera for which they are known - Genetic engineered resistance strategies for virus disease control - Latest understanding of virus interactions with plants, including gene silencing - Interactions between viruses and insect, fungal, and nematode vectors - Contains over 300 full-color illustrations

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1119

Publisher

Academic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0123848725

ISBN 13

9780123848727

Carved Histories

Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving

By: Roger Neich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Carved Histories

Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving

By: Roger Neich

This comprehensive guide examines the personal histories, roles, and personalities that played into the traditional cultural art of carving. It also traces the influence of European patronage and the ensuing tourist trade upon this art form, as many Maori carvers began styling and catering their product to meet their clients’ aesthetic desires. Included is a discussion of the establishment of the government-sponsored Rotorua School of Maori Art in 1928, which appointed as the main tutor Eramiha Kapua, a Ngati Tarawhai carver, thus helping his own traditional tribal art to make the transition into a modern “national” art.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

462

Publisher

Auckland University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

186940257X

ISBN 13

9781869402570

A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation

By: Roger Guesnerie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation

By: Roger Guesnerie

This book investigates the way in which tax systems affect economic efficiency and the distribution of welfare. It examines within a unified framework questions that are usually treated in different areas of the literature: institutional economics, positive economics, normative economics, and political economics. It adheres to the rigorous standards of pure theory while paying careful attention to the policy relevance of the arguments. Tax systems are viewed as information extracting devices that generate sets of equilibria of complex geometry. A tax reform methodology is proposed that sheds light on optimal taxes. Social conflicts in the determination of taxes are shown to have effects on social cohesion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

052162956X

ISBN 13

9780521629560

Policy Transfer and Educational Change

By: David Scott,Mayumi Terano,Roger Slee,Chris Husbands,Raphael Wilkins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Policy Transfer and Educational Change

By: David Scott,Mayumi Terano,Roger Slee,Chris Husbands,Raphael Wilkins

Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one national setting to another is a complex exercise. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explore a single case study of policy transfer in India, demonstrating how and under what conditions educational reforms can be put into practice successfully and sustainably. Coverage includes: · Policy Learning · Inclusive Practices · School Autonomy and School Leadership · India and its system of education This book offers a unique, international perspective on educational reform and is a useful resource for teachers, policy makers and postgraduate level students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

173

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

1473958989

ISBN 13

9781473958982

No Work and All Play

Audacious Chronicles of a Casino Boss

By: Roger Wagner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

No Work and All Play

Audacious Chronicles of a Casino Boss

By: Roger Wagner

The contents of the book describe the many examples of the types of characters and crazy daily episodes that an average person who selects a career in casino hotel management will witness and are part of during a lifetime in such a career. The book is really not about me, but it is a lifetime chronicle of my career where every work day is fun and there is almost never any drudgery. The three most interesting characters in the book are none other than a tycoon named Donald Trump, a Casino Icon named Jack Binion and a baseball legend named Mickey Mantle. The book also describes many other very interesting real-life persons in my career from Mob-connected people to other well known casino operators of their day. Most of these characters are not famous celebrities but their stories are sometimes even more humorous than those of Trump or Mantle. The stories about these people are real and actually happened, although the actual dates may be incorrect in some cases and some of the intricate details may be embellished to improve the stories. None of the tales degrade any of the characters in my book, but I do tell humorous stories about all of them that demonstrate they all have to put their pants on one leg at a time like the rest of us. It is not a text book, but it can serve as a good primer for a person considering making gaming hospitality their career objective. The seven different sections of the book are written to show how a person entering a casino hospitality position might evolve from the lowest level in a casino organization to a very high level of management, and that it generally takes many years to accomplish. It also describes the different relationships that one develops in any type of business and I use real people to illustrate how they each fit into the different types of relationships.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

445

Publisher

Outskirts Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1432777246

ISBN 13

9781432777241

Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

This biographical dictionary documents the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries are arranged first by state and then by regiment, and provide a biographical sketch of each colonel focusing on his Civil War service. Many of the colonels covered herein never rose above that rank, failing to win promotion to brigadier general or brevet brigadier general, and have therefore received very little scholarly attention prior to this work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476613869

ISBN 13

9781476613864

The Chemistry of Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Composition and Measurement, Second Edition

By: Roger A. Jenkins,Bruce Tomkins,Michael R. Guerin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Chemistry of Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Composition and Measurement, Second Edition

By: Roger A. Jenkins,Bruce Tomkins,Michael R. Guerin

Considered the definitive resource in its field, The Chemistry of Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Composition and Measurement compiles observations on the properties of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) and on the concentrations of its constituents in indoor air. It focuses on common natural indoor environments and environments associated with chronic exposure. The authors -- all renowned experts -- stress both measurement methods and the competing sources of indoor air contaminants commonly attributed to ETS. For the second edition, each chapter has been updated to reflect new studies and up-to-date information.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

478

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1482278650

ISBN 13

9781482278651

The Wheel of Fortune & Other Stories

By: Roger Leslie Paige

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Wheel of Fortune & Other Stories

By: Roger Leslie Paige

This is my tenth collection of short stories. An elderly man becomes 'news' after he writes about his encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona years ago. A writer holidaying in West Texas meets James Dean in Marfa years after the latter's supposed death. A postal clerk remembers selling a stamp to John Wayne who was filming in London. A reporter traces the ex-chauffeur of a gangster to learn his story. A British Lord worries about his accident prone wife who has gone skiing in the Scottish Borders. A mystery writer becomes a witness in a local murder. A strange ship loads an odd cargo in a port. A mute, nameless man becomes a patient in a psychiatric hospital. A sunken treasure is found off the coast of Florida during a Presidential political campaign. They are a mixed bag of old and new, some semi-autobiographical or humourous, all intended to entertain.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

494

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0244479402

ISBN 13

9780244479404

Timely 70th Anniversary Collection

By: Marc Guggenheim,Karl Kesel,Steve Ellis,Tom Defalco,James Robinson,David Lapham,Roger Stern,Jen Van Meter,Roy Thomas,Scott Snyder,David Liss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Timely 70th Anniversary Collection

By: Marc Guggenheim,Karl Kesel,Steve Ellis,Tom Defalco,James Robinson,David Lapham,Roger Stern,Jen Van Meter,Roy Thomas,Scott Snyder,David Liss

Collects All Select Comics #1, All Winners Comics #1, Usa Comics #1 Marvel Mystery Comics #1, Captain America Comics #1, Mystic Comics #1, Young Allies Comics #1, Miss America Comics #1, Sub-Mariner Comics #1, Human Torch Comics #1 And Daring Mystery Comics #1. Presenting 11 celebratory specials commemorating 70 years of Marvel! Watch a scrawny kid from Brooklyn named Steve Rogers show the world that you don't need a super-soldier serum to be a hero. And it's the year 1940, and thanks to policewoman Betty Dean, the young Namor the Sub-Mariner has momentarily halted his jihad against the surface world. Find out if the Human Torch can learn to tap into the human side of the Torch, or must he sacrifice himself to save the people he has sworn to protect? All this plus much, much more! Collecting all the 70th anniversary specials!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

293

Publisher

Marvel Entertainment

Published Date

ISBN 10

1302508393

ISBN 13

9781302508395

Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical

By: Roger Swift

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical

By: Roger Swift

This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three years until his death in 1898. A staunch Liberal free trader throughout his life, Villiers played a pre-eminent role in the Anti-Corn Law League as its parliamentary champion, introduced an important series of Poor Law reforms and later split with William Gladstone over the issue of Irish Home Rule, turning thereafter to Liberal Unionism. Hence Villiers, who remains the longest-serving MP in British parliamentary history, was intimately involved with many of the great issues of the Victorian Age in Britain.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

578

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

135197467X

ISBN 13

9781351974677

Ostico Lake Community

By: Roger N. Trendowski

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ostico Lake Community

By: Roger N. Trendowski

With Otisco Lake Community, Roger N. Trendowski chronicles this New York State Finger Lake area's history from the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Gathered from many local archives, private collections, and town historians from Otisco, Marcellus, and Spafford, the unique published and unpublished images show the area's natural beauty. The pictures transport us to the past where some of the same adventurous and entertaining activities still remain today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0738588253

ISBN 13

9780738588254

Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

The Story of a Lost Play

By: Roger Chartier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

The Story of a Lost Play

By: Roger Chartier

How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a playthe manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose authorcannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a playperformed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 andattributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Itsplot is that of a ‘novella’ inserted into Don Quixote,a work that circulated throughout the major countries of Europe,where it was translated and adapted for the theatre. In England,Cervantes’ novel was known and cited even before it wastranslated in 1612 and had inspired Cardenio. But there is more at stake in this enigma. This was a time when,thanks mainly to the invention of the printing press, there was aproliferation of discourses. There was often a reaction when it wasfeared that this proliferation would become excessive, and manywritings were weeded out. Not all were destined to survive, inparticular plays for the theatre, which, in many cases, were neverpublished. This genre, situated at the bottom of the literaryhierarchy, was well suited to the existence of ephemeral works.However, if an author became famous, the desire for an archive ofhis works prompted the invention of textual relics, the restorationof remainders ruined by the passing of time or, in order to fill inthe gaps, in some cases, even the fabrication of forgeries. Suchwas the fate of Cardenio in the eighteenth century. Retracing the history of this play therefore leads one to wonderabout the status, in the past, of works today judged to becanonical. In this book the reader will rediscover the malleabilityof texts, transformed as they were by translations and adaptations,their migrations from one genre to another, and their changingmeanings constructed by their various publics. Thanks to RogerChartier’s forensic skills, fresh light is cast upon themystery of a play lacking a text but not an author.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0745683304

ISBN 13

9780745683300

Image Warfare in the War on Terror

By: N. Roger

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Image Warfare in the War on Terror

By: N. Roger

Roger examines how developments in new media technologies, such as the internet, blogs, camera/video phones, have fundamentally altered the way in which governments, militaries, terrorists, NGOs, and citizens engage with images. He argues that there has been a paradigm shift from techno-war to image warfare, which emerged on 9/11.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137297859

ISBN 13

9781137297853

Militainment, Inc.

War, Media, and Popular Culture

By: Roger Stahl

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Militainment, Inc.

War, Media, and Popular Culture

By: Roger Stahl

Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive mode of militarized entertainment is recruiting its audience as virtual-citizen soldiers. The author examines a wide range of historical and contemporary media examples to demonstrate the ways that war now invites audiences to enter the spectacle as an interactive participant through a variety of channels—from news coverage to online video games to reality television. Simply put, rather than presenting war as something to be watched, the new interactive militainment presents war as something to be played and experienced vicariously. Stahl examines the challenges that this new mode of militarized entertainment poses for democracy, and explores the controversies and resistant practices that it has inspired. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between war and media, and it sheds surprising light on the connections between virtual battlefields and the international conflicts unfolding in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135837503

ISBN 13

9781135837501

Protest Politics in Germany

Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s

By: Roger Karapin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Protest Politics in Germany

Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s

By: Roger Karapin

Roger Karapin examines protest movements of all shades to understand why they became influential & also why different forms of protest come to be used in different circumstances.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

334

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271045507

ISBN 13

9780271045504

When Colts Ran

By: Roger McDonald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

When Colts Ran

By: Roger McDonald

Life on the land is a study in contrasts: shadow and light, abundance and blight, the transcendent moment eroded by the persistence of time. And it's against this backdrop, in the shearing sheds of Eureka Station, across the sweeping hills and lagoons of the Isabel district and the fleeting camaraderie of the Five Alls pub, that men play out their fates, conduct their affairs and hope for the best. WHEN COLTS RAN, written in Roger McDonald's inimitably rich and piercingly observant style, charts the ebb and flow of human fortune, and our fraught desire to leave an indelible mark on society and those closest to us. It shows how loyalties shape us in the most unexpected ways. It's the story of how men 'strike at beauty' as they fall to the earth.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

438

Publisher

ReadHowYouWant.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1459622642

ISBN 13

9781459622647

The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Roger Cooter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Roger Cooter

This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

436

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521227437

ISBN 13

9780521227438

Searching for the True Church

Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

By: Roger N. Shuff

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Searching for the True Church

Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

By: Roger N. Shuff

Roger Shuff holds that the influence of the Brethren movement on wider evangelical life in England in the twentieth century is often underrated. This book records and accounts for the fact that Brethren reached the peak of their strength at the time when evangelicalism was at its lowest ebb, immediately before World War II. However, the movement then moved into persistent decline as evangelicalism regained ground in the postwar period. Accompanying this downward trend has been a sharp accentuation of the contrast between Brethren congregations who engage constructively with the non-Brethren scene and, at the other end of the spectrum, the isolationist group commonly referred to as Exclusive Brethren. Besides being the first scholarly study of Brethrenism in England for nearly forty years, the book will find a wider audience among present and former adherents of the Brethren movement in its various guises. It also offers useful insights for Christian leaders and other professionals who find themselves with pastoral care for people upon whom their encounter with the Brethren has had a profound psychological impact.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

324

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1597527947

ISBN 13

9781597527941

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

430

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

104024405X

ISBN 13

9781040244050

Self-direction in Adult Learning

Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice

By: Ralph G. Brockett,Roger Hiemstra

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Self-direction in Adult Learning

Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice

By: Ralph G. Brockett,Roger Hiemstra

Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices related to a self-direction in learning. it presents strategies for facilitating self-directed learning as an instructional method and for enhancing learner self-direction as an aspect of adult personality. The idea of self-directed learning is not a new one but has received renewed attention in education circles and has particular significance for the adult education sector.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

454

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429854358

ISBN 13

9780429854354

African American Folktales

Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

By: Roger Abrahams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

African American Folktales

Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

By: Roger Abrahams

Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

Pantheon

Published Date

ISBN 10

030780318X

ISBN 13

9780307803184

1,000 Inventions and Discoveries

By: Roger Bridgman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

1,000 Inventions and Discoveries

By: Roger Bridgman

Dip into this illustrated account of key inventions and discoveries, listed year by year, with intriguing facts about each invention and the person (or people) who invented it. From the prehistoric hunting tools our early ancestors used to the modern-day smartphones that connect the entire planet, this book provides a fascinating tour through the history of humankind's inventions and discoveries. Fully revised and updated for 2020, 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries explores recent inventions and discoveries - from the Amazon Echo to the first photograph of a black hole - as well as showcasing revolutionary historical inventions such as the wheel. Whether you're a budding inventor, a history buff, or both, this amazing guide is packed with the inventions and discoveries in science, technology, transport, medicine, and mathematics that changed the course of human existence.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1186

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

074403096X

ISBN 13

9780744030969

The Honest Broker

Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

By: Roger A. Pielke, Jr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Honest Broker

Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

By: Roger A. Pielke, Jr

Scientists have a choice concerning what role they should play in political debates and policy formation, particularly in terms of how they present their research. This book is about understanding this choice, what considerations are important to think about when deciding, and the consequences of such choices for the individual scientist and the broader scientific enterprise. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options for individual scientists to consider in making their own judgments about how they would like to position themselves in relation to policy and politics. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies and thought-provoking analogies from other walks of life, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

198

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139464825

ISBN 13

9781139464826

Book's by Roger Hammond

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email