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The Battleship Book
From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power—and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato, here are more than sixty lavishly illustrated accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual, including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship. Separate essays and sidebars look at events and lore that greatly affected battleships.
Never My Love
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The Death Knot
Eleanor Armitage has isolated herself in the small town where she's chosen to live. Her job selecting fabrics for a designer makes it possible for her to work and travel without much personal contact with others. She's not unhappy; she's just, by desire, totally disengaged from what we would consider “ normal” life. But when Eleanor witnesses a particularly ugly crime, that event pulls at her and, as she follows various aspects of what she has seen, she's released from her self-imposed prison and welcomes friendship and even romance.
Somerset Incumbents
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The Power of Story
Explains how the way people tell stories about themselves influences how they are viewed by others in their business and personal lives and explains how to become an engaging story teller.
The Politics of Social Welfare in America
Explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on poverty, need and welfare.
Legal Imperialism
Legal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. These courts, created as a separate legal system for Western expatriates living in Asian and Islamic coutries, developed from the British imperial model, which was founded on ideals of legal positivism. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and abolition of these court systems in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China, Turan Kayaoglu elaborates a theory of extraterritoriality, comparing the nineteenth-century British example with the post-World War II American legal imperialism. He also provides an explanation for the end of imperial extraterritoriality, arguing that the Western decision to abolish their separate legal systems stemmed from changes in non-Western territories, including Meiji legal reforms, Republican Turkey's legal transformation under Ataturk, and the Guomindang's legal reorganization in China. Ultimately, his research provides an innovative basis for understanding the assertion of legal authority by Western powers on foreign soil and the influence of such assertion on ideas about sovereignty.
Wells Wills
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