Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics is a 2012 book on war and military strategy written by Emile Simpson, a former British Army officer. [1] The book analyzes the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) in terms of Carl von Clausewitz's theory of war, arguing that modern counter-insurgencies have more in common with domestic political struggles than the traditional ...
Books of non-fiction. Biographies. From the Ground Up: The Autobiography of an Aeronautical Engineer (1988), with Fred E. Weick; First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 2012), authorized biography of Neil Armstrong, [2] received the American Astronautical Society's Prize for Astronautical Literature.
Title page of Book from the Sky, in pseudo-Chinese characters.The characters “天書” do not appear anywhere in the book. A Book from the Sky (simplified Chinese: 天书; traditional Chinese: 天書; pinyin: Tiānshū) is a book produced by Chinese artist Xu Bing in the style of fine editions from the Song and Ming dynasties, but filled entirely with meaningless glyphs designed to resemble ...
Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel Vril. Louis Jacolliot's novel God's Sons (1873) is credited as the origin of the word A(s)gartha. Mary Lane's Mizora (1880–81) combines the hollow-Earth theme with feminism.
Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons". Dr. Debbie Reese argues that Nannie's use of the phrase "my heart is on the ground" throughout the book, often to refer to emotions or mood swings, trivializes the original meaning of the proverb, which refers to the "conquering of a nation, the death of a way of ...
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society is a 2001 book by Nadia Abu El Haj based on her doctoral thesis at Duke University. The book has been praised by some scholars and criticised by others.
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center is a book by William Langewiesche, published in 2002, about the cleanup and recovery effort at the World Trade Center site following the September 11 attacks.
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 is a 1984 book about the effectiveness of welfare state policies in the United States between 1950 and 1980 by the political scientist Charles Murray. [2] Both its policy proposals and its methodology have attracted significant controversy. [3] [4] [5] [6]