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  • The Race for the Atom Bomb

    How Soviet Russia Stole the Secrets of the Manhattan Project

    by John Harte ...
    Describes how Soviet Russia's leading spymasters in Moscow Center obtained information from British and American physicists to make an atomic bomb. When Nazi Germany began a secret weapons program called "The Uranium Club" in April 1939, Stalin was alerted by his American and British spies of the possibility that German scientists were working to develop an atomic bomb. The British Government and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Churchill Saved Civilization

    The Epic Story of 13 Years That Almost Destroyed the Civilized World

    by John Harte ...
    How Churchill Saved Civilization resolves the lingering mysteries surrounding the causes of the Second World War, and what transpired during the war to bring its end result. It proposes answers to such questions as Why were the Allies unprepared?”, Why did France collapse so quickly?”, Why didn’t the British government accept Hitler’s peace proposals?” and Why did the Germans allow Hitler to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Passionate Spies

    How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby, and Lawrence of Arabia Ignited the Arab Revolt

    by John Harte ...
    How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby, and Lawrence of Arabia Ignited the Arab Revolt—and How Saudi Arabia Was Founded.This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Edmund Allenby defeat Germany’s ally, the Turks, and end World War I. TE Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

  • Churchill's Enemies, 1927– 1940

    by John Harte ...
    A revealing account of how Churchill’s early battles with fascism and extremism shaped modern geopolitics.“Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the ‘scrawny little twenty-year-old second lieutenant ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Challenges, 1918–1940

    by John Harte ...
    Winston Churchill confronted Communism, Fascism, and Islamist Fundamentalism during his tenure as colonial secretary, shaping modern democracy and his own political journey. The current battle between superstitious and prejudiced forces from the past, against more enlightened modern ones, began when Winston Churchill was appointed colonial secretary in 1920. With the defeat of the shadowy Turkish ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill The Young Warrior

    How He Helped Win the First World War

    by John Harte ...
    This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill’s early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars—on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the First World War after he resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty, to volunteer to lead a Scottish ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Churchill The Young Warrior

    How He Helped Win the First World War

    by John Harte ...
    This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill’s early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars—on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the First World War after he resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty, to volunteer to lead a Scottish ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Greatest Spy

    The True Story of Churchill's Secret Agent Who Became the Model for James Bond, 007

    by John Harte ...
    Discover the life and daring exploits of the real-life model for the world's most famous spy, James Bond: Sidney Reilly!When a twenty-year-old Ukrainian arrived in London as a candidate for the position of secret agent in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Bureau, the chiefs of what would one day become MI5 were wise to hire him, as he would become Britain’s greatest spy, a man known by several names ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

  • Management Crisis and Business Revolution

    Edited by John Harte ...
    Management Crisis and Business Revolution describes the enormous gap between business theories on the one hand, and the realities of the workplace and uncertainties of the marketplace on the other. In place of reasoned management and disciplined organization John Harte depicts daily disorder, vagueness, and confusion; instead of the logical processes of classroom case histories with rational ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Pivotal Moment

    Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge

    by Martha Farnsworth Riche, Steve Sinding, Tim Wirth, Tim Cohen, Susan Gibbs, Brian O'Neill, Robert Engelman, Elizabeth Malone, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, Amy Coen, Lynne Gaffikin, John Harte, Gordon McGranahan, Rachel Nugent, Walden Bello, Eleanor Sterling, Erin Vintinner, Vicky Markham, Julia Varshavsky, Carmen Barroso, Judith Bruce, John Bongaarts, Suzanne Petroni, Susana Chavex Alvarado, Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray, Adrienne Germain, Ellen Chesler, Roger-Mark De Souza, James Gustave Speth, Shira Saperstein, Priscilla Huang, Ursula Goodenough, Frances Kissling, Sandra Postel, Fred Sai, Alex Steffen, Adriana Varillas, Malea Hoepf Young, Charlotte Brody, Lester R. Brown, James B. Martin-Schramm, Rev. ...
    Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It surveys the new ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Nature's Services

    Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems

    by Sandra Postel, Kamaljit Bawa, Les Kaufman, Charles H. Peterson, Stephen Carpenter, David Tillman, Paul Dayton, Susan Alexander, Kalen Lagerquist, Larry Goulder, Pamela A. Matson, Harold A. Mooney, Rosamond Naylor, Peter Vitousek, John Harte, Stephen H. Schneider, Stephen L. Buchmann ...
    Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment are profoundly disrupting the functioning of ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Maximum Entropy and Ecology

    A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics

    by John Harte ...
    Series series Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
    This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of ecological patterns. Rather than building and combining mechanistic models of ecosystems, the approach is grounded in information theory and the logic of inference. Paralleling the derivation of thermodynamics from the ... Read more

    $70.19 USD