Battle Tupi


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This book is the riveting conclusion of The Tupi Field series. Ever wonder what it would be like to fly America's top jets in combat? This is your chance. Feel the agony of defeat as the first raid on the hidden DF-21 missiles fails miserably when they fly into the teeth of a clever Chinese anti-stealth radar system that could see our stealth jets coming. Puzzle with our young pilots as they try to figure out what the Chinese are doing, and rejoice when they figure it out. Plan with them to devise a second raid that will leave the hidden DF-21 carrier killer missiles in pieces in a scorched earth smoking hole in the ground. Thrill with them as they fly against a tactically superior force of Flankers and J-20 Chinese stealth jets and apply the lessons they learned at TOPGUN to protect against having the American tankers and AWACs wiped out. Feel the thrill of victory as they shoot down the technically superior Flankers and Chinese stealth jets, and clear the way for their carriers to advance into the Tupi Field without fear of disappearing in a nuclear fireball to take the battle for control of the oil and gas from the offshore oilfield to the Chinese. And finally, feel the thrill of Carmen nuking three fleeing Chinese carriers with their own DF-21s, and falling in love with one of our courageous pilots. This book took over 5 years of research on the weapons systems and tactics the Chinese and Americans used, including the stealth radars, submarine anti-cloaking system, Flankers and Chinese stealth jets, the Aurora spy planes and the capabilities of Chinese hackers.




The Tupi Field


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If you liked the flavor of Top Gun, you will love this military action thriller. It has handsome Marine F/A-18 pilots, hot chicks, plenty of steamy sex, magnificent aircraft carriers, stealth jets, SEAL and Force Recon teams, stealth submarines, and lots of air-to-air combat between US F/A-18s, F-35s, F-22s, and Chinese Su-30MK2 Flankers. It is a hoot to read.







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The Unending Frontier


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It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach—and their numbers—as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, The Unending Frontier offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.




The Specter of Peace


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Specter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. The historicization of peace, the authors argue, can sharpen our understanding of violence, empire, and the early modern struggle for order and harmony in the colonial Americas and Atlantic World. Contributors are: Micah Alpaugh, Brendan Gillis, Mark Meuwese, Margot Minardi, Geoffrey Plank, Dylan Ruediger, Cristina Soriano and Wayne E. Lee.







The Cambridge History of Latin America


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This volume looks at the history of colonial Latin America.







Performing Indigeneity


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This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can “be” indigenous in public spaces. Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases “indigeneity” excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent.