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  • Eisenhower for Our Time

    by Steven Wagner ...
    Series series People for Our Time
    Eisenhower for Our Time provides an introduction to the Eisenhower presidency, extracting lessons for today's world. Steven Wagner proposes that the need to maintain balance defines Eisenhower's presidency.Wagner examines a series of defining moments that were among Eisenhower's greatest challenges, some of which resulted in his greatest accomplishments: the decision to run for president, his ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal

    by Jeff Wagner, Steven Wilson ...
    Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture. Beginning with the hugely influential mid-1970s efforts of Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a huge tapestry of sounds and styles, including Queensryche, Fates Warning, and Dream Theater; extreme prog pioneers Voivod and Celtic ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Bronx Epitaph

    How Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" Speech Defined the Yankee Legend

    by Steven K. Wagner ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.When Lou Gehrig stepped to the plate on Independence Day 1939, he was not there to deliver a home run. For the first time in seventeen years, Gehrig was there to deliver his heart. In recent weeks he had lost his job as the Yankees' first baseman as well as the good health that had made him the team's respected ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Perfect

    The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball's Greatest One-Game Wonder

    by Steven K. Wagner ...
    THE MAN WHO BATTED A THOUSAND A spectacular major-league debut—then obscurity. On the final day of the 1963 major-league baseball season, Houston Colt .45s teen sensation John Paciorek—in his one and only big-league game—went three-for-three, giving him a career batting average of 1.000. He also notched three RBI and scored four times. In the outfield John played magnificently, cleanly fielding ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Four Home Runs Club

    Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball's Rarest Feat

    by Steven K. Wagner ...
    In all of baseball, one record shines as perhaps the most coveted: four home runs by one player in a single game. If the pinnacle of pitching is the perfect game, then the highpoint of hitting is four home runs, and only eighteen players in the history of the sport can boast this accomplishment.In The Four Home Runs Club: Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball’s Rarest Feat, Steven K. Wagner profiles the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Statecraft by Stealth

    Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine

    by Steven B. Wagner ...
    Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the murky triad of intelligence, policy, and security supported colonial governance. It emphasizes the role of the Anglo-Zionist partnership, which began during World War I and ended in 1939, when Britain imposed severe limits on Jewish immigration and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Covert Action

    National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention

    by Magda Long, Rory Cormac, Mark Stout, Jeffrey P. Rogg, Marco Munier, William A. Stoltz, Jens Wegener0, Steven Wagner1, Melinda Haas2, Paul M. McGarr3, Philippe B. Nader4, Joanisval B. Goncalves5, Nihat A. Ozcan6, Egemen Bezci7, Kevin A. O'Brien8, Folahanmi Aina9, Jennifer Mathers0, Kiril Avramov1, Daniela Richterova2, Peter Rendek3, Radek Schovanek4, Stephan Blancke5, Sara B. Castro6, Damien Van Puyvelde8 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    A comparative international perspective challenges conventional narratives about unacknowledged intervention"Covert action" is generally understood as politically motivated and plausibly deniable interference by one state in the affairs of another state. It includes propaganda, political or economic subversion, paramilitary action, and assassinations. Covert action is the most consequential and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • The Rock-Art of Eastern North America

    Capturing Images and Insight

    by James R. Duncan, Daniel Arsenault, Mary R. McCorvie, Carol Diaz-Granados, Richard Edging, Jan F. Simek, Steven R. Ahler, Mark J. Wagner, Fred E. Coy Jr0, Lori A. Stanley1, Edward J. Lenik2, Charles Swedlund3, Kevin L. Callahan4, Alan Cressler5, Robert A. Clouse Sr.6, Jack H. Steinbring7, Elayne Pope8, Cecil R. Ison9, Robert Boszhardt0, Paul A. Nevin1, Tommy Charles2, Joan M. Vastokas3, William Rex Weeks Jr4, Mark Hamilton Hedden5, Charles H. Faulkner6, Johannes Loubser7 ...
    Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provincesIn archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    by Jack Lynch, Howard Weinbrot, Molly Marotta, Yu Liu, Claude Willan, Daniel Gustafson, James Horowitz, Philip S. Palmer, Pat Rogers, Sarah Stein, Samara Anne Cahill, Suzanne L. Barnett, R.J.W. Mills, Nigel Penn, Christopher Trigg, Mark G. Spencer, Roy Bogas, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Isabel Rivers, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Malcolm Jack, Kate Brown, Jane R. Stevens, Robin Runia, Paula Pinto, Tamara Wagner, Anthony W. Lee ...
    Series Book 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Rogue Lawyer

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the legal thriller comes a “deeply engaging and enjoyable” (USA Today) novel featuring one of John Grisham’s most colorful, outrageous, and vividly drawn characters ever.ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROn the right side of the law—sort of—Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He drinks small-batch bourbon and ... Read more

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