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  • The Last Warlord

    The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    The Last Warlord tells the story of the brotherhood forged in the mountains of Afghanistan between elite American Green Berets and Dostum that is told in the movie 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the HorsesoldiersThe Last Warlord tells the spellbinding story of the legendary Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, a larger-than-life figure who guided US Special Forces to victory over the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Captain Cook's Final Voyage

    The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts

    Edited by James K. Barnett ...
    Maritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary, little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. They offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at the time of initial European contact, the first reasonably accurate maps of North America’s west coast, the earliest comprehensive report from the Bering Sea ice pack, and the dramatic story of Cook ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pacific Exploration

    Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

    by Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe, Glyn Williams ...
    Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands – and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Geographies of Developing Areas

    The Global South in a Changing World

    by Glyn Williams, Paula Meth, Katie Willis ...
    Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales

    Edited by Glyn Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second home ownership, school closure, economic peripheralism and inadequate social services become the marker of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The French Revolution in Theory

    by Sophie Wahnich ...
    Translated by Owen Glyn-Williams ...
    Series series Reinventing Critical Theory
    It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why.More so than historians, it is philosophers that have played the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Knowledge Economy, Language and Culture

    by WILLIAMS, Glyn ...
    The world is being reshaped by fundamental changes deriving from globalisation and the shift from modernity to late modernity. At the heart of these changes is the knowledge economy. Work in the knowledge economy operates quite differently than in the industrial economy in that it is highly dependent on communication and language. This book considers how language and culture are relevant to the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Social Theory and Language

    The Construction of Meaning

    by Glyn Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.//The book posits that theory conditions how objects are constructed and in turn the meanings allocated to them and explores the implications for the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Afghanistan Declassified

    A Guide to America's Longest War

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery.Originally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Naturalists at Sea

    Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin

    by Glyn Williams ...
    On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world.   This ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Afghanistan Declassified

    A Guide to America's Longest War

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery.Originally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Counter Jihad

    America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million men and women to fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Brian Glyn Williams traces these unfolding ... Read more

    $25.99 USD