Top 10 Worst Ruthless Warriors

Top 10 Worst Ruthless Warriors
Author: Fiona Macdonald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN: 9781908177285

"From head-hunting Celts to hooligan Huns and sword-swishing Samurais, Top Ten Worst Ruthless Warriors dishes the dirt on wicked warriors and their blood-thirsty battles. Readers can find out who had sharp knives fitted to the wheels of their chariot, who had his head pickled and sent to the leader of his enemy and who claimed to gobble up naughty children." --Publisher.

The Dangerous, Disastrous, Unusual History of War

The Dangerous, Disastrous, Unusual History of War
Author: Craig Sodaro
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1429675365

"Describes the history of war, featuring little-known facts and bizarre inside information"--Provided by publisher.

The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys

The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys
Author: Liz Knowles
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Written with a focus on the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, this book provides a complete plan for developing a literacy program that focuses on boys pre-K through grade 12. Despite the fact that reading and literacy among boys has been an area of concern for years, this issue remains unresolved today. Additionally, the emphasis and focus have changed due to the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. How can educators best encourage male students to read, and what new technologies and techniques can serve this objective? The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys is an essential resource and reference for teachers, librarians, and parents seeking to encourage reading in boys from preschool to 12th grade. Providing a wide array of useful, up-to-date information that emphasizes the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, the bibliographies and descriptions of effective strategies in this book will enable you to boost reading interest and performance in boys. The chapters cover 16 different topics of interest to boys, all accompanied by a complete bibliography for each subject area, discussion questions, writing connections, and annotated new and classic nonfiction titles. Information on specific magazines, annotated professional titles, books made into film, websites, and apps that will help you get boys interested in reading is also included.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Donald A. Mackenzie
Publisher: Masterlab
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 837991161X

This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus passed under review. Keywords: myth, legend, ancient, religion, classic

Dangerous Doctrine

Dangerous Doctrine
Author: Robert G. Kaufman
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0813167221

Much like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign, he pledged to transform the role of the United States abroad. His ambitious foreign policy goals included a global climate treaty, the peaceful withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new relationship with Iran. Throughout Obama's tenure, pundits and scholars have offered competing interpretations of his "grand strategy," while others have maintained that his policies were incoherent or, at best, ad hoc. In Dangerous Doctrine, political scientist Robert G. Kaufman argues that the forty-fourth president has indeed articulated a clear, consistent national security policy and has pursued it with remarkable fidelity. Yet Kaufman contends that President Obama has imprudently abandoned the muscular internationalism that has marked US foreign policy since the end of World War II. Drawing on international relations theory and American diplomatic history, Kaufman presents a robust critique of the Obama doctrine as he situates the president's use of power within the traditions of American strategic practice. Focusing on the pivotal regions of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, this provocative study demonstrates how current executive branch leadership threatens America's role as a superpower, weakening its ability to spread democracy and counter threats to geopolitical order in increasingly unstable times. Kaufman proposes a return to the grand strategy of moral democratic realism, as practiced by presidents such as Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, with the hope of reestablishing the United States as the world's dominant power.

Taming the Messiah

Taming the Messiah
Author: Aslihan Gurbuzel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520388224

In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. By uncovering the histories of these new political voices and documenting the emergence of a robust public sphere, Gürbüzel challenges two common assumptions: first, that the ideal of public political participation originated in the West; and second, that civic culture was introduced only with Westernization efforts in the nineteenth century. Contrary to these assumptions, which measure the Ottoman world against an idealized European prototype, Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement.

Top 10 Worst Wicked Rulers

Top 10 Worst Wicked Rulers
Author: Fiona Macdonald
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781433967009

Read about ten rulers from the ancient world to the nineteenth century who were brutal, corrupt, bigoted, and otherwise mean rulers.

The Searchers

The Searchers
Author: Glenn Frankel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1620400650

Traces the making of the influential 1950s film inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, sharing lesser-known aspects of Parker's 1836 abduction by the Comanche and her heartbreaking return to white culture, in an account that also explores how the movie reflects period ambiguities. 30,000 first printing. Movie tie-in.