Bruce Mann
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes of disputing yielded to a legal system that treated neighbors and strangers alike.During the colonial period population growth, immigration, economic...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother snuck out in the middle of the night. Only Matthew came home safely. Ten years later, Matthew tells us, he has found a way to bring his brother back. What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, in the years since, and to his very person.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A remarkable new history evoking the centrality of Italy to World War II, outlining the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign.
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The term "fighter ace" grew in prominence with the introduction and development of aerial combat in the First World War. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied but is usually considered to be five or more.
For the Luftwaffe, a number of its fighter pilots, many of whom had fought with the Legion Condor in Spain, had already gained their Experte, or ace, status in the Battle of France. However,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As many as 96% of Christians are not leading anyone to Jesus. Which means that the vast majority of the wider church is, at best, simply sowing. The kingdom of God, however, requires both sowing and reaping. If we neglect reaping, we will not have a healthy harvest.
Jesus at the Door offers a unique tool-an Equipping Card to use with anyone you know, anywhere-and practical, step-by-step instructions, helping readers witness to friends, family, even...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In April of 2018, Giorgi Rtskhiladze answered the door of his Connecticut home to find two FBI agents bearing a subpoena waiting for him. Their questions: What was his interaction with Donald Trump, Trump family and the Trump Organization? What did he know about Michael Cohen's business dealings? Why was he the person who Cohen had a text conversation with about the possibility of damaging tapes of Donald Trump from Russia?
Though he and his family...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Second World War, Poznań was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was, given indicating the Red Army's, approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily, evacuated, leaving a garrison of some 15,000 men, mostly poorly, armed infantry, to face the rigors of a siege, conducted by a massively, superior and ruthless enemy, anxious to acquire this transport center, which...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thomas Kestrel must choose between the life he wants and a duty to his people.Both are threatened by an ancient evil that only he can stop.Is he willing to risk everything? Even though he has yet to master the ways of the Talent, Thomas commits himself to fighting the evil of the Shadow Lord and to destroying the beasts who poison the land. Knowing that he must pass three challenges to join the Sylvan Warriors -- an ancient, almost forgotten order...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captured but still defiant,Thomas Kestrel stands fearlessly against the evil trying to break him.Stronger than magic or steel – he brings hope to a forgotten people. In The Raptor of the Highlands, the third book in the epic sword and sorcery fantasy series The Sylvan Chronicles, Thomas chooses to save a life, and he almost pays for that decision with his own. Forced into the mines, he becomes a slave, a prisoner of the High King's regent. Rather...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thomas is tested by the High King.With no means of escape,His defiance likely will cost him his life. In The Makings of a Warrior, the fourth book in the sword and sorcery epic The Sylvan Chronicles, Thomas risks more than he should for the Princess of Fal Carrach, who falls prey to the Dark Magic of the Shadow Lord. Betrayed and sentenced to the Labyrinth, Thomas' strength and cleverness are tested to the very limit as he navigates a maze from which...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on their experiences during the First World War, the Reichswehr decided that the infantry support gun of the future should be an armored, motorized vehicle with an effective calibre of cannon: the Sturmgeschütz III. The weapon was used in the 'fire brigade role' at hotspots along the Front, where it was much feared by enemy forces. This illustrated volume tells the tale of Brigade 191, aka the 'Buffalo Brigade', who used the Sturmgeschütz...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is about what Mark Carney has called 'the social licence for financial markets' and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future. Author David Rouch argues that what it reveals contrasts sharply with the usual portrayals of markets as places of unrestrained financial self-interest. Drawing attention to a more complex reality and the presence of justice-focused aspirations in finance can positively impact individual, institutional,...
13) Lifeboat 12
Author
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella by Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy's harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.
With Nazis bombing London every night, it's time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he's one of the lucky ones-one of ninety boys and girls to...
14) Maori: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling historical novel that follows an English family through five decades of passion, adventure, war, and upheaval in the breathtaking wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand The only son of a poor British coal miner, Robert Coffin sets sail for the far ends of the Earth in search of his fortune, leaving his young bride and infant child behind in England. In the sordid and dangerous South Pacific port of Kororareka, on the sprawling...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order. Due to the secrecy surrounding the country's records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward.
Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret...
17) The Time Master
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An ordinary Russian guy, Sergei picks a fight in his neighborhood, defending a little boy. Problem is, the guy he's just defeated vanishes into thin air, leaving Sergei to discover he now possesses the ability to turn time around.
On top of that, Sergei can now travel between worlds. He acquires even more mysterious new skills and abilities. And he discovers there're many others just like him in our world.
Sergei finds his own place in the secret...
Author
Language
English
Description
A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail.
Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world-but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk-the peril...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the edge of the world, unknown and unseen, he endures and survives even in our digital era . . .
A young man leaves his backdoor Russian town and heads to Moscow, never to be poor again. With each day, he grows more and more desperate until he meets an old geologist with an intriguing and surprisingly profitable offer: to join him on his trip to the depths of Siberia, the largest forest on the planet, and become a "black digger"-one of those who...
Author
Language
English
Description
Leadership Results explores the fall of traditional leadership thinking and the struggling multibillion dollar leadership development industry that is failing to deliver results, and explains the mindset, skills, ways of being, and methods that will get results in the new context and evolving paradigm. The Leadership Results model is practical and predictive, providing a way forward for companies seeking to build sustainable leadership capacity, develop...