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This book has over 100 unique and never before seen black and white photos of NAS Ft Worth Joint Reserve Base, formally Carswell Air Force Base. All known information about each picture is listed. These photos came from Federal and State archives, as...

Majestic Lunacy - A Soldier's JournalBook InformationISBN 9780557155125Author D. Earl KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557159192Author Garrison Clifford GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 152g

A Special Operations Flight Surgeon's interview with Saddam Hussein on the night of his capture, and the missions which led to their meeting.Book InformationISBN 9780557153190Author Mark GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu...

On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines, Flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, was on its way from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle, Washington, when suddenly the horizontal stabilizer of the plane jammed. While passengers were praying for their life,...

Hermann Goring's 1935 Photo Album: A Contradiction of Humanity is a distinctive personal collection of over one hundred black and white photographs for the Third Reich's second in command and Adolph Hitler's successor. The snapshots were assembled into a...

On 14 September 2008 Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-505, operated by Aeroflot-Nord, a subsidiary of the Russian airline Aeroflot, crashed on approach to Bolshoye Savino Airport, Perm, Russia. All 82 passengers and 6 crew members were killed. The...

Studebaker and the Railroads is a history of the Studebaker Corporation and of the railroads that served it in and around the city of South Bend, Indiana. Both Studebaker and the railroads of northern Indiana have extensive and dramatic histories and...

As one of the first post-WWII Baby Boomers, Jim Chambers' childhood and early teenage years were in the 1950s, a remarkable decade for the United States that saw enormous political, technological, and cultural changes. Although many books have covered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557088317Author Ian RuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 549Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

These are Gary Clifford Gibson's political and philosophical essays developing a contemporary historical analysis and synthesis of select American macro-social and international events of the years 1999 through 2002. Global waveform politics were a...

For over 150 years the History of the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri has been verbally handed down from generation to generation. Now, in this definitive work, combined by Doyne "Two Wolves" Cantrell our Heritage, culture,...

Catholicism was brought to the United States by extraordinary missionaries. Driven by faith, courage and sacrifice, they planted the seeds of faith, even to the point of shedding their blood. Junipero Serra, Andrew White and Isaac Jogues are just a few...

My writing of " Memories" has been a labor of love for several seasons. The first section covers the years from 1932 to 1951. The second edition details 1951 to 1964, and the third covers 1964 to the present. The day after Labor Day in 2002...

Are you a history buff, intrigued by ill-fated historical events like the Titanic? Do you love digging into new developments, details, discoveries, and theories about events long buried? With the sinking of the Titanic, over 100 years ago, Joe Combs,...

HARDCOVER. This new translation from Japanese tells the story for the first time in English of Baron Kaneko's one-man diplomatic mission to the U.S. during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), in which he was tasked with winning the hearts and minds of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557054381Author Author UnknownFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Georgia's Crime Doctor is the story of Dr. Herman Jones, the Alabama native who is responsible for establishing the Georgia State Crime Laboratory. Tracing the steps of Jones and his wife June back to Auburn in the 1930's, this book chronicles the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557061303Author Dr. Bill SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Three essays and interviews with photographs by author and musician Joan Cartwright about the creation of blues in America by Africans captured for servitude on Euro-American plantations over a span of 400 years. This book should be read by music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557044320Author Rio AkasakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

A historical look at the time period called the Transition to Power. This is the time period after a president is elected - the 77 days between the election and inauguration as president.Book InformationISBN 9780557036189Author David J. ForgioneFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557035083Author Jonathan R. CovingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

A historical and Photographic Journey down the Power and Navigation Canal that made Augusta Georgia into the Lowell of the south. Contains Historic Reports and Photography Detailing the rich history that stretches along the Augusta Canal.Book...

The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for four years. Extensively researched and annotated. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and appendices. Hardbound edition.Book...

David B. Truman (1913 -2003) was an eminent political scientist and prominent academic administrator. In April 1968, he was the vice president and provost of Columbia University when students seized five buildings at the university. The occupation became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530019635Author John KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 880g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001562Author Ronald HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and...

Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor...

From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing...

The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He...

Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position. Victory, however, had always involved the use of others, such as charioteers, jockeys, and trainers, and in the...

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced...

This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations - of women of different social ranks. Using a variety of...

This collection of twenty essays examines the art, profession and idea of the actor in Greek and Roman antiquity, and has been commissioned and arranged to cast as much interdisciplinary and transhistorical light as possible on these elusive but...

This book, first published in 2000, is a full-length study of the representation of deceit and lies in classical Athens. Dr Hesk traces the ways in which Athenian drama, democratic oratory and elite prose-writing construct and theorize a relationship...

The surviving text of the fragmentary Phaethon of Euripides depends chiefly on two sources: two pages from a Euripidean manuscript, written about A.D. 500, and a papyrus of the third century B.C., which contains a substantial part of the parodos. These...

This is a reprint of the book first issued in 1932, which was composed of the relevant chapters in the Cambridge Ancient History and illustrated with over two hundred pictures. When it was first reprinted in 1966, there were no substantial alterations,...

A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven...