Chaney's Stratagem
Author : Hannah Courtney Pinnix
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Hannah Courtney Pinnix
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 140814428X
It attests to Farquhar's stature as a man that he composed this warm-hearted and vibrant play while he was dying. Like The Recruiting Officer, the play is set in a provincial town and its plot is slight: Aimwell and Archer, two impecunious London gentlemen, arrive in Lichfield looking for an heiress to marry. Aimwell, posing as his elder brother, falls in love with his 'prey' Dorinda and confesses his imposture to her; his 'man-servant' Archer arouses the wistful interest of the unhappily married Mrs Sullen. The introduction to this edition discusses the play for its theatrical merits and argues that it dramatises the ills of marriage in early modern England, shown by Farquhar to be more injurious to the wife than to the husband, and calls for a reform of the divorce laws.
Author : Douglas S. Tung
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1412006740
A concise and thought-provoking look at the replaying of ancient Chinese stratagems in recent military and political occurrences and anecdotes.
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108548318
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor. Authored by leading experts in the field, the introduction and sixteen chapters explore the American Gothic chronologically, in relation to different social groups, in connection with different geographic regions, and in different media, including children's literature, poetry, drama, film, television, and gaming. This Companion provides a rich and thorough analysis of the American Gothic tradition from a twenty-first-century standpoint, and will be a key resource undergraduates, graduate students, and professional researchers interested in this topic.
Author : Liang Qiao
Publisher : NewsMax Media, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Asymmetric warfare
ISBN : 9780971680722
Three years before the September 11 bombing of the World Trade Center-a Chinese military manual called Unrestricted Warfare touted such an attack-suggesting it would be difficult for the U.S. military to cope with. The events of September ll were not a random act perpetrated by independent agents. The doctrine of total war outlined in Unrestricted Warfare clearly demonstrates that the People's Republic of China is preparing to confront the United States and our allies by conducting "asymmetrical" or multidimensional attack on almost every aspect of our social, economic and political life.
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Publisher :
Page : 1428 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 1911
Category : American literature
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Author : Lawrence Grinter
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781478361886
This is a book about strategy and war fighting. It contains 11 essays which examine topics such as military operations against a well-armed rogue state, the potential of parallel warfare strategy for different kinds of states, the revolutionary potential of information warfare, the lethal possibilities of biological warfare and the elements of an ongoing revolution in military affairs. The purpose of the book is to focus attention on the operational problems, enemy strategies and threat that will confront U.S. national security decision makers in the twenty-first century.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307278549
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The First American comes the first major single-volume biography in a decade of the president who defined American democracy • "A big, rich biography.” —The Boston Globe H. W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.
Author : Warren A. Trest
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Traces the usage of- and meaning given to- the terms "roles and missions" relating to the armed forces and particularly to the United States Air Force, from 1907 to the present.
Author : Frans P.B. Osinga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1134197098
John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called ‘OODA’ loop model he developed. This model refers to a decision-making process and to the idea that military victory goes to the side that can complete the cycle from observation to action the fastest. This book aims to redress this state of affairs and re-examines John Boyd’s original contribution to strategic theory. By highlighting diverse sources that shaped Boyd’s thinking, and by offering a comprehensive overview of Boyd’s work, this volume demonstrates that the common interpretation of the meaning of Boyd’s OODA loop concept is incomplete. It also shows that Boyd’s work is much more comprehensive, richer and deeper than is generally thought. With his ideas featuring in the literature on Network Centric Warfare, a key element of the US and NATO’s so-called ‘military transformation’ programmes, as well as in the debate on Fourth Generation Warfare, Boyd continues to exert a strong influence on Western military thinking. Dr Osinga demonstrates how Boyd’s work can helps us to understand the new strategic threats in the post- 9/11 world, and establishes why John Boyd should be regarded as one of the most important (post)modern strategic theorists.