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1	Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America's most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist A key episode in American labor history, the 1912 strike by textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts was violent and bloody, and many immigrant workers died. Yet it is seen as a victory for labor, as eventually the owners capitulated to the workers' demands for improved salaries and working conditions. Historian Bruce Watson explains the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| first editions
3	The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist Watson tells the story of A.C. Gilbert, the man single-handedly responsible for introducing the world and many of its boys to the Erector set. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made: The Life and Times of A.C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist Watson tells the story of A.C. Gilbert, the man single-handedly responsible for introducing the world and many of its boys to the Erector set. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Military lessons of the Gulf War more books like this by Bruce W Watson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Changing Face of the World's Navies: 1945 to the Present more books like this by Bruce W Watson add to wishlist Both professional and civilian followers of recent defence history are not always able to equate their knowledge of equipment and operational deployment to the overall reason why national military forces and defence pacts are the size they are, follow the policies they do and formulate the strategies they create. This study of post-war changes ... see all copies from $3.46! new only from $6.50! \| first editions
7	Desert Battles: From Napoleon to the Gulf War more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist "Desert Battles" is a study of the nature of desert warfare with special attention to the evolution of weaponry, the organisation of forces, the impact of the desert environment on the ability of those forces to sustain battle, and the influences of the desert on battle tactics. After an examination of deserts as a physical context for battle, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	Sieges: A Comparative Study more books like this by Bruce A Watson add to wishlist Presents five sieges - Jerusalem, Malta, Sebastopol, Kut-al-Amara and Singapore - for detailed analysis. The writer adopts the methodology developed by Jon Keegan of defining sieges as a form of battle and explores the "categories of combat" which determine the outcome of battles. see all copies from $4.20! new only from $75.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43 more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist In the sands of North Africa during the early years of World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the Desert Fox. After a string of successes, Rommel's fortunes began to sour with the battles of El Alamein, where the British under Bernard Montgomery halted Axis expansion in the fall of 1942, followed days later by ... see all copies from $3.42! new only from $3.43! \| SVS
10	Desert Battle: Comparative Perspectives more books like this by Bruce A Watson add to wishlist A study of the nature of desert warfare with special attention to the evolution of weaponry, the organization of forces, the impact of the desert environment on the ability of those forces to sustain battle, and the influences of the desert on battle tactics. see all copies from $5.58! new only from $70.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Pearl of the East' or the 'Island of Tears'? more books like this by Dr. Siri Gamage (Editor), Ian Bruce Watson add to wishlist Through fifty years of independence, Sri Lanka has suffered mass murders, bombings, assassinations and endless ethnic conflict. This book examines the causes of the conflict and suggests ways it might be solved. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00!
12	Did Mohawks Wear Mohawks?: And Other Wonders, Plunders, and Blunders more books like this by Bruce Tindall, Mark Watson add to wishlist Did Mohawks Wear Mohawks? contains dozens of short, fascinating, and witty articles about anything and everything. From the serious to the silly--from the ends of the earth to our own backyards--this book answers the questions we have always wondered about--and the ones we thought we knew, but didn't. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	How Does Olive Oil Lose Its Virginity?: Answers to the Enigmatic Questions of Contemporary Life more books like this by Bruce Tindall, Mark Watson add to wishlist Was there a real Dr. Pepper? How did the question mark get its shape? Answers to these and dozens of questions readers may have always wondered about--or not--are answered in stort, fascinating articles. A great light reference from the authors of Did Mohawks Wear Mohawks?. Line drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.75! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Great Indian Mutiny: Colin Campbell and the Campaign at Lucknow more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist In 1857-1858, rebels in northern India recruited tens of thousands of civilian volunteers in a mutiny that threatened to engulf the entire subcontinent. This study explores a fundamental question never explicitly investigated in histories of the Mutiny: How could a vastly outnumbered British army, with dangerously extended lines of supply and ... see all copies from $40.74! new only from $73.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	When Soldiers Quit: Studies in Military Disintegration more books like this by Bruce A Watson add to wishlist Examines six examples of military disintegration: the India Mutiny, 1857; the French Army mutinies, 1917; the depredations following the British siege of San Sebastian, 1813; the surrender of the US 106th Infantry Division, 1944; the Sand Creek Indian Massacre, 1864; and the My Lai massacre, 1968. see all copies from $55.99! new only from $69.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning: Volume 1: Prize Papers from the World's Planning School Associations more books like this by Gpean (Editor), Bruce Stiftel (Editor), Vanessa Watson (Editor) add to wishlist "Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning" offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics ... see all copies from $126.00! new only from $129.14!
17	Oxford Bk of Birds (Campbell) more books like this by Bruce Campbell, Oxford University Press (Editor), Donald A Watson (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00!
18 view cover	Implementation and Application of Automata more books like this by Frederic William Cao, Bruce Watson (Editor), Derick Wood (Editor) add to wishlist This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2001, held in Pretoria, South Africa in July 2001.The 23 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The topics ... see all copies from $49.55! new only from $52.32! \| SVS
19 view cover	Power System Harmonic Analysis more books like this by Jos Arrillaga, Bruce C Smith, Neville R Watson add to wishlist Quality of power supply is now a major issue worldwide making harmonic analysis an essential element in power system planning and design. Power System Harmonic Analysis presents novel analytical and modelling tools for the assessment of components and systems, and their interactions at harmonic frequencies. The recent proliferation of power ... see all copies from $175.68! new only from $175.68! \| SVS
20 view cover	Life's Not All Wine and Roses!: A Collection of Tales from Southern France more books like this by Bruce Watson add to wishlist This collection of snappy, humorous, earthy stories all have a sting in the tail. They portray aspects of life in France unsuspected by most casual visitors. Food and sex are rarely talked of with such delicate earthiness. Medicine, herbal remedies, crime, social niceties, witchcraft and religion are the reflecting mirrors that illuminate Fanny, ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	An American Wizard's Tale more books like this by Bruce A Watson, Georgia A Rolland-Watson add to wishlist Come back to a time just after the end of the 2nd World War. The world will meet a young boy that will change the course of the world by the time of his next birthday in January of 1951. Shawn Wilson is a very special wizard that only comes around every 1,000 years or so. He has powers that he uses only for good never for the bad. see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99! \| SVS
22 view cover	Borel's Methods of Summability more books like this by Watson Shawyer, Bruce B Watson, Bruce L Shawyer add to wishlist Summability methods are transformations that map sequences (or functions) to sequences (or functions). A prime requirement for a "good" summability method is that it preserves convergence. Unless it is the identity transformation, it will do more: it will transform some divergent sequences to convergent sequences. An important type of theorem is ... see all copies from $71.62! new only from $71.62! \| SVS
23 view cover	Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-1943 more books like this by Bruce Allen Watson add to wishlist A study of Rommels's generalship in the context of the Tunisian campaign, this book explores Rommel through the influential variables of battle, including logistics, difficulties, weapons technology and his relations with Hitler. see all copies from $39.75! new only from $86.68! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 more books like this by Jean Barman, Bruce McIntyre Watson add to wishlist Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely ... see all copies from $42.69! new only from $50.06! \| SVS
25	The Soviet Naval Threat to Europe: Military and Political Dimensions more books like this by Bruce W Watson add to wishlist see all copies from $3.19! new only from $6.28!

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