Engaging and motivating students with diverse backgrounds and varied interests in marketing requires stimulating and effective teaching materials--and Pride/Ferrell continues to be the resource of choice for instructors. Combining contemporary coverage of marketing strategies and concepts with real-world examples, Marketing's text and its ...
This work's 53 chapters are divided into the following 6 parts: Design; Materials; Processing Materials; Assembly; Finishing; Products. Modern Cabinetmaking is a comprehensive new text that covers cabinetmaking and woodworking techniques employed by the home woodworker, custom cabinetmaker, and manufacturing industry. Technical terms are printed ...
At large during the most colourful period in American history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well ...
Drawing on new sources, distinguished Civil War scholar William C. Davis has written a thorough and absorbing biography of the controversial president of the Confederacy--the first in 14 years. The author (no relation to the president) uses newly released diaries and letters to describe the full story of Davis's life. 16 pages of photographs.
In June 1864, two years after General George B. McClellan's failed Peninsular Campaign, the army of the Potomac, now led by General George G. Meade and the commander in chief, Ulysses S. Grant, had again fought its way to the outskirts of Richmond. grant had suffered terrible losses trying to flank General Robert E. Lee's Army of northern Virginia ...
This Civil War history recounts the final days of the war, when President Davis wanted to fight to the last man while others in the Confederacy longed for an honorable surrender out of which the South might negotiate terms on which to build a future.
Vivid narrative tells the story of the courageous First Kentucky Brigade -- those men who became outcasts from their mother state during the raging strife of the Civil War.
The author of "The Fighting Men of the Civil War" now masterfully chronicles the grand history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement.
These letters and diary extracts, written by Union soldiers, reveal the special relationship that Lincoln had with his troops and are valuable first-person accounts of the Civil War.
The first major history ever written on the first battle of the Civil War, this narrative describes the chaotic fighting by courageous amateurs that nearly resulted in Confederate independence.
Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who lived through the epic battle of the 'Monitor' and the 'Merrimack' and of those who witnessed it from afar, William C. Davis documents and analyzes this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships.
A combination of history and biography, this work strips away the many layers of myth, legend and fable which surround Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis. It provides an account of their lives and the driving force which impelled them out West, and shows what really happened at the Alamo.
A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.
More Civil War battles were fought on Virginian soil than on that of any other Confederate state. No state suffered more from invasion and occupation than the Old Dominion, and none witnessed as much of the war. Virginia's story of the Civil War stands unique among the Confederate States. "Virginia at War, 1861" looks at Virginia on the eve of ...
A combination of history and biography, this work strips away the many layers of myth, legend and fable which surround Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis. It provides an account of their lives and the driving force which impelled them out West, and shows what really happened at the Alamo.
Virginia emerged from the year 1861 in much the same state of uncertainty and confusion as the rest of the Confederacy. While the North was known to be rebuilding its army, no one could be sure if the northern people and government were willing to continue the war. Virginians' expectations for the coming year did not prepare them for what was ...
We know the uniforms they wore, the weapons they carried, and the battles they fought, but what did they eat and, of even greater curiosity, was it any good? Now, for the very first time, the food that fuelled the armies of the North and the South and the soldiers' opinions of it - ranging from the sublime to just slime - is front and centre in a ...
The author of the highly acclaimed biography Jefferson Davis: The Man and The Hour has produced a vivid portrait of the lives of those adventurous pioneers who opened up, settled, and developed the old Southwest.
Raging across America between 1861 and 1865, the Civil War spawned more than ten thousand military engagements, from brief skirmishes and raids to sieges and battles involving whole armies. "The Battlefields of the Civil War" tells the stories of thirteen of the most important battles, including First Manassas, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, ...
"Look Away!" is the culmination of decades of work by the acclaimed historian Davis, who has written extensively on various aspects of the Civil War. The book brilliantly illuminates the principles that motivated the South and the goals that it hoped to achieve. 16 page photo insert.
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