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  • FROM CAMP DOUGLAS TO VICKSBURG
    RACHAEL E. MELLEN AND DAVID A. POWELL
    Wars change the course of history and touch in intensely personal ways the lives of everyone involved. Thankfully, surviving firsthand accounts offer modern readers a deeply personal window into earlier times. From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg: The Civil War Letters of William J. Kennedy, 55th Illinois Infantry, 1861-1863, edited and annotated by Rachael E. Mellen and David A. Pow...

    $254.99

  • TOM PAINE
    DAVID POWELL
    First published in 1985. In the late autumn of 1774 at the age of 37 Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia. Eighteen months later he had established himself as a seminal figure in the Independence movement. It was the start of a career in which he became the first US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; was outlawed from England by Pitt for the publication of the second part of ...

    $1,060.00

  • SOVIET SOCIAL PROBLEMS
    WALTER CONNOR / DAVID E POWELL / ANTHONY JONES
    This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change. ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE SOVIET EMPIRE RECONSIDERED
    SANFORD R. LIEBERMAN / DAVID E POWELL / CAROL R SAIVETZ / SARAH M TERRY
    The demise of any empire provides an occasion for fresh examination of longaccepted "truths" about its history and its intrinsic nature: What set this particular empire apart from others? Why did it develop in the way that it did? Could events have taken a different path? What legacies has the empire left to its heirs? In this volume, eminent scholars reflect on the unique and ...

    $1,200.00

  • SOVIET UPDATE, 1989-1990
    ANTHONY JONES / DAVID E. POWELL
    Due to the pace of change in the USSR, monographs and textbooks in the field are quickly becoming dated. This book is the inaugural edition of a series that seeks to fill that void by presenting a biannual, systematic summary and analysis of developments in Soviet affairs. In this first volume, noted experts cover the years 1989-1990, examining the full range of political, econ...

    $1,200.00

  • CHILD MENTAL HEALTH
    JOHN Y POWELL / DAVID DOSSER / DOROTHEA HANDRON / SUSAN MCCAMMON / SANDRA A. SPENCER
    Use these system-of-care concepts to better serve children with serious emotional problems and their families!Providing services to children with emotional problems and their families continues to be a major challenge for social workers, family therapists, child mental health advocates, and psychologists in the new century. This valuable book addresses that challenge, detailing...

    $1,160.00

  • THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN: GLORY OR THE GRAVE
    DAVID A. POWELL
    The second volume in a three-volume study of this overlooked and largely misunderstood campaign of the American Civil War. According to soldier rumor, Chickamauga in Cherokee meant "River of Death." The name lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged a sprawling bloody combat along the banks of...

    $279.00

  • ALCOHOLISM AND SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
    DAVID J. POWELL
    Experts provide specific methodologies for clinicians working with recovering alcoholics and their families. This landmark study of sexual issues in alcoholism treatment addresses impotence in male alcoholics, the sexual dynamics of the client-counselor relationship, homosexual alcoholics, and many other important issues. ...

    $520.00

  • IT IN BUSINESS: A BUSINESS MANAGER'S CASEBOOK
    D. TARGETT / DAVID GRIMSHAW / PHILIP POWELL
    'IT in Business: A Manager's Casebook' examines the impact of new IT initiatives from the business angle. The case material is derived from the year's best research projects from three leading UK Business Schools - Bath, Cranfield and Warwick.This incisive exploration of managing processes in IT companies is essential reading for IT managers in 'end-user' businesses who have to...

    $1,600.00

  • FAILURE IN THE SADDLE
    DAVID A. POWELL
    An award–winning, "deeply researched and thoroughly analyzed" account of the Confederate cavalry's mistakes that turned Chickamauga into a Pyrrhic victory (Eric J. Wittenberg, award-winning author of The Battle of Brandy Station).   Tales of the Confederate cavalry's raids and daring exploits create a whiff of lingering romance about the horse soldiers of the Lost Cause. Someti...

    $229.00

  • BRITISH POLITICS, 1910-1935
    DAVID POWELL
    This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against the background of upheavals such as the First World War and the transition to full democracy as a consequence of the Reform Acts of 1918 and 1928. Combining an up-to-date synthesis of previous work with a reappraisal of the main personalities, themes an...

    $1,100.00

  • UNION COMMAND FAILURE IN THE SHENANDOAH
    DAVID POWELL
    The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagement, which involved only 10,000 troops, were substantial. Previous studies, however, focused on the Confederate side of the story. David Powell’s, Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the ...

    $229.65

  • ALL HELL CAN’T STOP THEM
    DAVID POWELL
    To many of the Federal soldiers watching the Stars and Stripes unfurl atop Lookout Mountain on the morning of November 25, 1863, it seemed that the battle to relieve Chattanooga was complete. The Union Army of the Cumberland was no longer trapped in the city, subsisting on short rations and awaiting rescue; instead, they were again on the attack. Ulysses S. Grant did not share ...

    $114.76

  • BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS
    DAVID POWELL
    In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies painstakingly hauled over the sketchiest of mountain roads. Soon even those quarter-rations would not suffice. Disaster was in the...

    $114.76

  • THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN
    DAVID A. POWELL
    Winner of the Laney Book Prize from the Austin Civil War Round Table: "The post-battle coverage is simply unprecedented among prior Chickamauga studies." —James A. Hessler, award-winning author of Sickles at Gettysburg This third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, a comprehensive examination of one of the most important and complex military o...

    $249.00

  • THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN: A MAD IRREGULAR BATTLE
    DAVID A. POWELL
    "Far surpasses anything anyone else has ever done about this pivotal engagement." — The Journal of America's Military Past Chickamauga, according to soldier rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning "River of Death." It certainly lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks ...

    $229.00

  • THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA
    DAVID POWELL
    he Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War. Track individual regiments through their engagements at fifteen to twenty-minute intervals or explor...

    $115.02

  • THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA
    DAVID POWELL
    The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War. Track individual regiments through their engagements at fifteen to twenty-minute intervals or explo...

    $115.02

  • MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA
    DAVID POWELL
    Third in a new series of campaign studies that take a different approach toward military history, The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil Wa...

    $140.60

  • THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN
    DAVID A. POWELL
    Details Sherman’s grueling advance from the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. The scope, drama, and importance of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign was on a par with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, the operations in North Georgia have lingered in the shadows. Award-...

    $305.99