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Author : David W. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983268307
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Our War written by David W. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421426919
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Cork Wars written by David A. Taylor and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of cork and its critical role in US security and the war effort. Winner of the IPPY Book Award History (World), Silver of the Independent Publisher In 1940, with German U-boats blockading all commerce across the Atlantic Ocean, a fireball at the Crown Cork and Seal factory lit the sky over Baltimore. The newspapers said that you could see its glow as far north as Philadelphia and as far south as Annapolis. Rumors of Nazi sabotage led to an FBI investigation and pulled an entire industry into the machinery of national security as America stood on the brink of war. In Cork Wars, David A. Taylor traces this fascinating story through the lives of three men and their families, who were all drawn into this dangerous intersection of enterprise and espionage. At the heart of this tale is self-made mogul Charles McManus, son of Irish immigrants, who grew up on Baltimore’s rough streets. McManus ran Crown Cork and Seal, a company that manufactured everything from bottle caps to oil-tight gaskets for fighter planes. Frank DiCara, as a young teenager growing up in Highlandtown, watched from his bedroom window as the fire blazed at the factory. Just a few years later, under pressure to support his family after the death of his father, DiCara quit school and got a job at Crown. Meanwhile, Melchor Marsa, Catalan by birth, managed Crown Cork and Seal’s plants in Spain and Portugal—and was perfectly placed to be recruited as a spy. McManus, DiCara, and Marsa were connected by the unique properties of a seemingly innocuous substance. Cork, unrivaled as a sealant and insulator, was used in gaskets, bomber insulation, and ammunition, making it crucial to the war effort. From secret missions in North Africa to 4-H clubs growing seedlings in America to secret intelligence agents working undercover in the industry, this book examines cork’s surprising wartime significance. Drawing on in-depth interviews with surviving family members, personal collections, and recently declassified government records, Taylor weaves this by turns beautiful, dark, and outrageous narrative with the drama of a thriller. From the factory floor to the corner office, Cork Wars reflects shifts in our ideas of modernity, the environment, and the materials and norms of American life. World War II buffs—and anyone interested in a good yarn—will be gripped by this bold and frightening tale of a forgotten episode of American history.
Author : David Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852830328
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book David Taylor's Animals in Battle written by David Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that records the strengths and skills of the unsung heroes of war - the animals. They include the elephants who crossed the Alps with Hannibal and the carrier pigeons who took part in the 1870 siege of Paris.
Author : Amber Marks
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448131049
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Headspace written by Amber Marks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime detection has gone to the dogs and squirrels are being busted for espionage. If you've never wondered about the new direction of 'intelligence-led policing' in our society, now is the time to start. It was a chance encounter with a police sniffer-dog that drew criminal lawyer Amber Marks into the hidden world of the science of smell and its law-enforcement applications. Soon she stumbled into a wonderland of contemporary surveillance, where the spying skills of bees, dolphins and a myriad other critters were being harnessed to build a 'secure world' of bio-intelligence. From the businesses, scientists and military departments developing new smell-based surveillance technologies, to good old-fashioned police dogs, Amber discovered a secret world of security forces, where animals and scent are as important as intelligence agents and CCTV. Part polemical exploration of our burgeoning surveillance society, part humorous memoir, this intriguing book will capture your imagination and get you wondering: just who stands to benefit from all this 'security'?
Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387125
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Memory, Narrative and the Great War written by David Taylor and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of an important figure whose differing perceptions of the Great War throw valuable light on the way in which war is remembered and narrated.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970276
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Language Animal written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” —John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist tradition—Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs—assert that language is a tool that human beings developed to encode and communicate information. In The Language Animal, Taylor explains that this view neglects the crucial role language plays in shaping the very thought it purports to express. Language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning and fundamentally shapes human experience. The human linguistic capacity is not something we innately possess. We first learn language from others, and, inducted into the shared practice of speech, our individual selves emerge out of the conversation. Taylor expands the thinking of the German Romantics Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt into a theory of linguistic holism. Language is intellectual, but it is also enacted in artistic portrayals, gestures, tones of voice, metaphors, and the shifts of emphasis and attitude that accompany speech. Human language recognizes no boundary between mind and body. In illuminating the full capacity of “the language animal,” Taylor sheds light on the very question of what it is to be a human being.
Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1565127447
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Ginseng, the Divine Root written by David A. Taylor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind ginseng is as remarkable as the root itself. Prized for its legendary curative powers, ginseng launched the rise to power of China's last great dynasty; inspired battles between France and England; and sparked a boom in Minnesota comparable to the California Gold Rush. It has made and broken the fortunes of many and has inspired a subculture in rural America unrivaled by any herb in the plant kingdom. Today ginseng is at the very center of alternative medicine, believed to improve stamina, relieve stress, stimulate the immune system, enhance mental clarity, and restore well-being. It is now being studied by medical researchers for the treatment of cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. In Ginseng, the Divine Root, David Taylor tracks the path of this fascinating plant—from the forests east of the Mississippi to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and the remote corners of China. He becomes immersed in a world full of wheelers, dealers, diggers, and stealers, all with a common goal: to hunt down the elusive "Root of Life." Weaving together his intriguing adventures with ginseng's rich history, Taylor uncovers a story of international crime, ancient tradition, botany, herbal medicine, and the vagaries of human nature.
Author : John Bell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413522
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Confederate Seadog written by John Bell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-11-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Taylor Wood, the grandson of President Zachary Taylor and a nephew of Jefferson Davis, was one of the most daring and remarkable participants of the Civil War and among the few people to hold dual rank in the Confederate military as a captain in the Confederate States Navy (CSN) and a colonel in the cavalry. Wood was widely known for his wartime activities, but at the time of his death in 1904, he had been largely forgotten. This work combines a thorough biography of John Taylor Wood and three of his memoirs that were published in Century magazine between 1885 and 1898. The biography gives special attention to Wood's childhood and youth, such as his harrowing experiences in Florida during the Seminole Wars, his service in the United States Navy during and after the Mexican War, his experiences in California during the Gold Rush and his leading role among the members of the little-known postwar Confederate naval colony in Halifax, Nova Scotia, organized to fight the Fenian forces for the British in 1866. His writings about the war and other literary activities, and his friendship with William Hall, the first African American to win the Victoria Cross are covered. The memoirs in this book cover his service on the CSS Virginia, the cruise of the CSS Tallahassee (of which he was the commander), and his gutsy escape from the South as the Confederacy collapsed.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Whitaker's Book List written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765374838
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Night Life written by David C. Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city ... [NYPD cop Michael] Cassidy is assigned to the case of Alexander Ingram, a Broadway chorus dancer found tortured and dead in his apartment in Hell's Kitchen ... Why are the FBI, the CIA, and the Mafia interested in the death of a Broadway gypsy?"--Amazon.com.
Author : David Armstrong
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book At Close Quarters: SOE Close Combat Pistol Instructor Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor written by David Armstrong and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the paramount Allied sabotage force of the Second World War. Its job - in Churchill's words - was to "set Europe ablaze" through the use of sabotage, insurrection and assassination. One of its "shining Stars" and "legends" was the close-combat pistol instructor, Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor. Grant-Taylor taught the commandos, secret agents and irregular soldiers the art of how to kill at close quarters. He taught them how to be ruthless, lethal and covert, and yet his own life was itself a mystery worthy of a John Buchan thriller novel. Misinformation, deception, bravery, murder, and ultimately redemption, all play a part in his story. At Close Quarters finally puts to rest the myths and legends that surrounded his life, and unravels the mysterious truth behind the enigma that was Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor!
Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9781684425204
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Soul of a People written by David A. Taylor and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement.
Author : Katharine Barrett
Publisher : Gems-Regents of the University of CA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animals in Action written by Katharine Barrett and published by Gems-Regents of the University of CA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher's guide to 5 units designed to introduce students in grades 5-9 to observing and describing animal behavior, then conducting research and discussing their findings. These guided-discovery activities "should be useful to schools ... science centers, museums, and community groups."
Author : Paddy Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113519677X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book British Fighting Methods in the Great War written by Paddy Griffith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection points out the very real and substantial evolution of tactics that went on in response to new warfare and how this had a real effect on the positive performance of the British Army from 1916 onwards.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animals written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. David Taylor
Publisher : Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780865055346
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Endangered Desert Animals written by J. David Taylor and published by Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten endangered animals are highlighted in each book with clear, simple text matched by stunning, full-color photographs by wildlife photographer and author Dave Taylor. Each book helps guide the reader toward a greater understanding of the dangers these magnificent animals face as their habitats are continually degraded and destroyed.Animals include:* Bactrian camel* dromedary* desert bighorn* Gila monster* addax* Prezwalski's horse* desert cats* and more
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Our Dumb Animals written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
