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  • Air War Over North Vietnam

    Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965–1968

    by Stephen Emerson ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    In early 1965 the United States unleashed the largest sustained aerial bombing campaign since World War II, against North Vietnam. Through an ever escalating onslaught of destruction, Operation Rolling Thunder intended to signal Americas unwavering commitment to its South Vietnamese ally in the face of continued North Vietnamese aggression, break Hanois political will to prosecute the war, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive

    Hanoi's Gamble

    by Stephen Emerson ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    A history of the military campaign that set the stage for the end of the Vietnam War.By the end of 1971, in what Hanoi called the American War and at the height of the Cold War, the fighting had dragged on for eight years with neither side gaining a decisive advantage on the battlefield and talks in Paris to the end the war were going nowhere. While the United States was steadily drawing down its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Laos

    Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955–1975

    by Stephen Emerson ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    A history of the "secret war" in Southeast Asia in which nearly three million tons of bombs decimated a newly independent nation.By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was transforming into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country was soon engulfed in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vietnam's Final Air Campaign

    Operation Linebacker I & II, May–December 1972

    by Stephen Emerson ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    An account of the last American bombardments that took place over North Vietnam while peace talks struggled in Paris. Includes maps and photos.On March 30, 1972, some thirty thousand North Vietnamese troops, along with tanks and heavy artillery, surged across the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam in the opening round of Hanoi's Easter Offensive. By early May, South Vietnamese forces were on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozambican Civil War

    Marxist-Apartheid Proxy, 1977–1992

    by Stephen Emerson ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    How superpower interests and Cold War politics exacerbated a war in Africa that left millions dead or displaced.As the Cold War raged on in the 1970s and 1980s, much of southern Africa, from Angola to Mozambique, became caught up in the superpower competition as local and regional proxies for both Moscow and Washington fought it out on the battlefield. Thus, the struggle to determine the future of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African security in the twenty-first century

    Challenges and opportunities

    by Stephen Emerson, Hussein Solomon ...
    This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community. It challenges current thinking and traditional security constructs as woefully inadequate to meet the real security needs of African governments and their 1 billion plus citizens in an increasingly globalised and ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Made of Water

    by Stephen Emerson Haire ...
    When I wrote this book, over a period of about 5 years, I wanted to communicate something of my experience to the reader. Most importantly, I wanted to convey a view of English that the reader may not be familiar with, that it can be an object of play. In writing the book, I forced myself, stretched myself, to play with English, to expand its potential. I took something of an inspiration from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Shakespeare as a Man, or a Poet

    by Leslie Stephen, Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Great men are more distinguished by range and tent than by originality. If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels; in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men. The hero is in the press of knights and the thick of events; and seeing ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Manual for Cleaning Women

    Selected Stories

    by Lucia Berlin ...
    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the L... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Good Samaritan

    Luke 10 for the Life of the Church

    by Emerson Powery, Stephen Chapman ...
    Series series Touchstone Texts
    The story of the good Samaritan in Luke 10 is one of Jesus's most well-known parables. It continues to fascinate readers with its powerful imagery and ethical significance.In this exposition, New Testament scholar Emerson Powery shows how this classic and beloved text can speak afresh to the life of the church today. Powery explains that in every generation, followers of Jesus need to be reminded ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink

    Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast

    by Aaron Deter-Wolf, Rachel V. Briggs, Stephen B. Carmody, Thomas E. Emerson, Kandace D. Hollenbach, Megan C. Kassabaum, Scot Keith, Nicolas Laracuente, Kelly L. Ledford, Thomas J. Pluckhahn0, Neill J. Wallis1, Lauren A. Walls2, Elic M. Weitzel3, Tanya M. Peres Lemons5 ...
    Series series Archaeology of Food
    Discover the deep cultural roots of Southern cuisine through archaeology.Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast, however, is the first collection devoted exclusively to southeastern foodways ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism

    Concepts for African Leadership

    by Abayomi Sharomi, Emerson Abraham Jackson, Alex J. Wilson, Godwin Michael Adahada, Emmanuel Ogheneochuko Arodovwe, Philip Osarobu Isanbor, George Uzoma Ukagba, Anthony Raphael Etuk, Nana Kwasi Amoateng, Thaddeus Metz ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    This book creates (on the one hand) and explores (on the other hand) philosophies of African development suitable for Black sub-Saharan African countries. As an academic discipline focused on thought informed by indigenous moral values among Black peoples in the sub-Saharan region, African political philosophy involves philosophizing normatively about government by traditional Black African people ... Read more

    $89.09 USD