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  • Long Gray Lines

    The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915

    by Rod Andrew ...
    Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms, join a corps of cadets, and subject themselves to constant military discipline. Several southern ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Southampton Reflections

    by Ben Waring, Rod Andrews, Peter Wardall ...
    Series series Reflections
    Southampton has been a major port on England’s south coast since the medieval era and sections of the ancient city walls remain today. In the nineteenth century the town expanded further following the formation of the Southampton Docks Company, the building of a railway connection with London, and the growth of shipbuilding and other related industries. Devastated by aerial bombardment in the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Marines' Fight for Survival

    War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952

    by Rod Andrew Jr. ...
    Series series Studies in Civil-Military Relations
    The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps was close to becoming a hollow force. A parsimonious Truman administration and a hostile defense secretary, Louis Johnson, had reduced the Corps to a handful of ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • David Fincher's Zodiac

    Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation

    by Matthew Sorrento, David Ryan, Christopher Sharrett, Jeremy Carr, Daniel R. Fredrick, Deborah L. Jaramillo, Martin Kevorkian, Theresa Rodewald0, Jake Rutkowski1, Christopher Weedman2, Andrew M. Winters3, Rod Lott4, George Toles5 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), written by producer James Vanderbilt and adapted from the true crime works of Robert Graysmith, remains one of the most respected films of the early twenty-first century. As the second film featuring a serial killer (and the first based on fact) by Fincher, Zodiac remains a standout in a varied but stylistically unified career. While connected to this genre, the film ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens

    Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder

    by Rod Andrew Jr. ...
    Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Wade Hampton

    Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer

    by Rod Andrew Jr. ...
    Series series Civil War America
    One of the South’s most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee’s cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton’s military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal life. Rod Andrew’s critical biography sheds light on his central role during Reconstruction as ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Southampton The Postcard Collection

    by Peter Wardall, Ben Waring, Rod Andrews ...
    Series series The Postcard Collection
    The city of Southampton, lying on the south coast in Hampshire, has seen massive changes over the years. Its favoured location on the natural harbour of Southampton Water enabled it to develop as a major port, and it saw particularly rapid growth in Victorian times with the development of the docks and related shipbuilding industries. Significant areas of the city were destroyed in the Second ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Southampton Memories

    People and Places

    by Peter Wardall, Rod Andrews, Ben Waring ...
    Series series Memories
    Southampton is now part of a huge metropolitan area running along the south coast in Hampshire. The city has seen massive changes over the years and although its history goes back many centuries, it saw particularly rapid growth in Victorian times with the development of the docks and related shipbuilding industries. Significant areas of the city were destroyed in the Second World War. The ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • U.S. Marines In Battle: An-Nasiriyah, 23 March-2 April 2003 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Colonel Rod Andrew Jr. USMCR ...
    Includes over 9 maps, 23 diagrams and illustrations.On 23 March 2003, 5,800 U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Corpsmen-the warriors of Task Force Tarawa-began fighting a ferocious battle in the city of an-Nasiriyah, Iraq. As the first large-scale battle fought by U.S. Marines in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Nasiriyah became a test of the Coalition's ability and resolve to defeat a determined, resourceful foe ... Read more

    $3.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arts in the Primary School

    by Rod Taylor, Glennis Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Firmly based on the authors’ personal experience, this book tackles a wide range of issues relating to the teaching of the arts in the primary school. The authors illustrate how primary children of all ages can be educated to both know about and to practice all the major art forms, and how a school staff can effectively accommodate and practice them all, even within the constraints of the National ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Nordic Edge

    Policy Possibilities for Australia

    by Andrew Scott, Rod Campbell ...
    Climate and energy. Work/life balance. Mining taxes. Progress on policy issues like these is essential, and yet they have become subject to the most rancorous partisanship, the precipitation of culture wars, and have brought down governments. It is impossible to make any progress without major political upheaval. Or so it seems in Australia. Yet Nordic countries have taken a 'ja, we can' approach ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

    Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

    by Zaheer Baber, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor0, Andrew Eungi Kim1, Irving M. Zeitlin2, J.I. Bakker3, John Keane4, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens5, Michael Zeitlin6, Elijah Anderson7 ...
    This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include ... Read more

    $168.49 CAD