Barricades: The First African-American West Point Cadets and Their Constant Fight for Survival, Carhart Tom

Автор: Carhart Tom
Название: Golden Fleece
ISBN: 1612349102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612349107
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 30890.00 T
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Описание: In the fall of 1965 West Point cadet Tom Carhart and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy pulled off a feat of extraordinary ingenuity, precision, and raw guts: the theft of the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just before the biggest football game of the year. The U.S. forces in Vietnam were then at two hundred thousand and growing, with casualties spiking, and the men in West Point’s class of 1966 were well aware that they would serve, and quite possibly die, in that far-off war. But West Point’s motto, “Duty, Honor, Country,” affirms that its graduates will always obey the decisions of our elected government, and the men of ’66 were dutiful: of the 579 who graduated, 30 died in Vietnam and roughly five times that number were wounded. Since this would be the men’s last Army-Navy football game as cadets, they wanted to go out with a bang, not a whimper. Carhart tells the incredible true story of how, in stealing that Navy goat, the cadets unknowingly reenacted the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece from Greek mythology. The caper is interwoven with an insider’s narrative about the private lives of six West Point cadets in the early 1960s, who, against all odds, hurled their last hurrah of triumph to America before flying off to fight its wretched war in Vietnam. For more information about The Golden Fleece visit carhartthegoldenfleece.com.

Автор: Wesley K. Clark with Tom Carhart; read by the auth
Название: Time to Lead UAB CD
ISBN: 1427202389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427202383
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Автор: Wesley K. Clark with Tom Carhart; read by the auth
Название: Time to Lead
ISBN: 0792750349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792750345
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Автор: Carhart Marie L.
Название: Charlotte at the Pageant: Beauty Unleashed
ISBN: 1982239824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982239824
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Цена: 12830.00 T
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Описание: Based on a true story, Charlotte sets out on her adventure at the doggie pageant for the pure joy of it and loves every minute. Although Charlotte never loses sight of what's important, Mommy gets a little too wrapped up in winning and brother Ralphie becomes so jealous that he even...well...wait until you see what mischief he gets into But don't worry - Charlotte's family comes to learn what she has known all along: It's all the "little steps" along the way that are a big deal. "Winning" is really just about having fun, sharing good times with family and friends and maybe even making new friends along the way. Now that is a WIN-WIN-WIN

Автор: Carhart, Michael C.
Название: Leibniz discovers asia
ISBN: 1421427532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421427539
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How did early modern scholars--as exemplified by Leibniz--search for their origins in the study of language?

Who are the nations of Europe, and where did they come from? Early modern people were as curious about their origins as we are today. Lacking twenty-first-century DNA research, seventeenth-century scholars turned to language--etymology, vocabulary, and even grammatical structure--for evidence. The hope was that, in puzzling out the relationships between languages, the relationships between nations themselves would emerge, and on that basis one could determine the ancestral homeland of the nations that presently occupied Europe.

In Leibniz Discovers Asia, Michael C. Carhart explores this early modern practice by focusing on philosopher, scientist, and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who developed a vast network of scholars and missionaries throughout Europe to acquire the linguistic data he needed. The success of his project was tied to the Jesuit search for an overland route to China, whose itinerary would take them through the nations from whom Leibniz wanted language samples. Drawing on Leibniz's extensive correspondence with the members of this network, Carhart gives us access to the philosopher's scintillating discussions about astronomy and mapping; ethnology and missionary work; the contest of the Asiatic empires of Muscovy, Persia, the Ottoman, and China for control of the Caucasus, the steppes, and the Far East; and above all, language, as the best indicator of the prehistoric genealogy of the myriad peoples from Central Asia to Western Europe.

Placing comparative linguistics within Leibniz's intellectual program, this book offers extensive insight into how Leibniz built his early modern scholarly network, the network's functionality within the international Republic of Letters, and its limitations. We see the scholar, isolated and lonely in little Hanover, with his hands on knowledge trickling in from scientific centers across Europe and around the world. By the end of 1697--the year his network finally began to work--Leibniz laughed to one of his patrons, I'm putting a sign on my door reading, 'Bureau of Address for China'! Depicting Leibniz not as a philosophical authority but as a scholar with human limitations and frustrations, Leibniz Discovers Asia is a thrilling and engaging narrative.