The first detailed account in English of the battle that defined the elite unit's fidelity to the mission. The battle was fought at Camerone, some 40 miles west of Vera Cruz, Mexico, on April 30, 1863; the opponents were the half-strength 3d Company, 1st Battalion, of the Legion opposed by more than 2,000 Mexican regulars and guerrillas. After several fights against the Mexican lancers just beyond the deserted La Trinidad Hacienda at Camerone, the 3d took cover behind the old walls of the hacienda. There, for ten hours the Legion withstands repeated assaults from a Mexican force that grew to more than 2,000 men. Finally, the surviving officer and four men of the 3d charge into the midst of the massed juaristas. The officer is mortally wounded, two men are killed, the other two captured. The Legion has never regarded Camerone as a defeat but rather as the prime example of fidelity to the mission. Annually, on April 30, Legion units, whether in peace or war, commemorate the gallantry of the 3d of the 1st.

Camerone: The French Foreign Legion's Greatest Battle (Foundations of Social Inquiry)

History

RYAN, JAMES

Rohmer, Rosemary

Americas

Praeger

The theory and practice of surveying: containing all the instructions requisite for the skilful [sic] practice of this art, with a new set of accurate mathematical tables

The Theory and Practice of Surveying: Containing all the Instructions Requisite for the Skilful [sic] Practice of This art, With a new set of Accurate Mathematical Tables

Gibson, Robert

Franklin Classics

Lenin's Terror (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

This book explores the development of Lenin’s thinking on violence throughout his career, from the last years of the Tsarist regime in Russia through to the 1920s and the New Economic Policy, and provides an important assessment of the significance of ideological factors for understanding Soviet state violence as directed by the Bolshevik leadership during its first years in power. It highlights the impact of the First World War, in particular its place in Bolshevik discourse as a source of legitimating Soviet state violence after 1917, and explains the evolution of Bolshevik dictatorship over the half decade during which Lenin led the revolutionary state. It examines the militant nature of the Leninist worldview, Lenin’s conception of the revolutionary state, the evolution of his understanding of "dictatorship of the proletariat", and his version of "just war". The book argues that ideology can be considered primarily important for understanding the violent and dictatorial nature of the early Soviet state, at least when focused on the party elite, but it is also clear that ideology cannot be understood in a contextual vacuum. The oppressive nature of Tsarist rule, the bloodiness of the First World War, and the vulnerability of the early Soviet state as it struggled to survive against foreign and domestic opponents were of crucial significance. The book sets Lenin’s thinking on violence within the wider context of a violent world.

Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

Reference

Routledge

Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography

Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance, and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique realm of study. It demonstrates the importance of culture in the development of debates in other subdisciplines within geography and beyond. In line with these previous themes, the significance of space in the production of cultural values and expressions is also developed. Along with its timely examination of the health of the cultural geographical subdiscipline, this book is to be valued for its analysis of the impact of cultural theory on studies elsewhere in geography and of ideas of space and spatiality elsewhere in the social sciences.

Politics & Social Sciences

Crouch, David

Cook, Ian

Naylor, Simon

Social Sciences

Raised as Colonel Solomon Richards’ Regiment in 1688, the 17th Regiment of Foot (later the Leicestershire Regiment) served with distinction throughout Europe and the Empire—in particular in India, where they gained the signal honour of their Green Tiger badge and "Hindoostan" motto. Many battalions served through both World Wars and in Korea, until re-organisation led to their absorption into the Royal Anglian Regiment of today. This is the story of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, "The Tigers," told through artwork and historic photographs in the care of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester, and Rutland. Although there are few records of the regiment’s first 150 years, from the 1840s onwards there is a wealth of photographic material; much of which has never before been published. The regiment and its soldiers are seen at ease and on duty, in their finest full dress and in the remnants left by active service. This is the first illustrated history of the regiment and will be a worthy tribute to one of the British Army’s most gallant regiments.

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment: An Illustrated History

Jenkins, Robin

Europe

The History Press

Inclusive Leadership draws on James Ryan's groundbreaking research to present a powerful new idea - leadership as an intentionally inclusive practice that values all cultures and types of students in a school. This important book shows that inclusion must encompass all types of difference in students, teachers, and parents - from the single mother to the new immigrant, from the parents working night jobs, to the homeless child, to issues of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. In four fascinating chapters, James Ryan sketches out the dimensions of exclusion, analyzes the research on inclusive leadership, and offers practical suggestions for promoting and practicing inclusive leadership. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education―a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.

Inclusive Leadership

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

Screenwriting from the Heart is the answer to today’s formulaic, by-the-numbers Hollywood films. As a successful screenwriter and teacher, James Ryan has distilled the content of his popular workshops into this indispensable guide to developing dramatic and passionate screenplays based on compelling characters. Maintaining that writing by formula results in contrived and untrue screenplays, Ryan’s technique is based on the premise that our best work comes from the heart – from the inside out. This book shows screenwriters how to free up the unconscious imagination in order to use what they excavate from deep within themselves to craft a screenplay. 
Drawing on examples from dozens of screenplays to help illustrate his technique for creating complex and magnetic characters, In the first half of his book, Ryan helps screenwriters to first discover and create their characters and to use them as the source for the story. In the second half of the book, he offers a step-by-step guide to crafting a script – from finding a story and developing the pitch, to preparing an outline, free-writing, and creating a great scene. Ryan also offers practical advice about how to continue to grow as a screenwriter, and provides some realistic ways to get a finished screenplay noticed by the right people. 
Eleven exercises are included in the book for the reader’s use in practicing and honing skills for getting past the obvious choices to create resonant, fresh, and original scripts.

Screenwriting From The Heart

Literature & Fiction

Watson-Guptill Pubns

VISITING GREECE IS AN EXPERIENCE WHICH FEASTS THE SENSES AND KINDLES THE IMAGINATION AS NONE OTHER CAN. STRADDLING THE MEDITERRANEAN WHERE EUROPE MEETS THE LEVANT, GREECE HAS ENORMOUSLY INFLUENCED WESTERN THOUGHT AND CULTURE. IN THIS BOOK ARE GLIMPSED THE GLORIES OF CLASSIC ATHENS, OF MYCENAE, AND OF THE EVEN MORE ANCIENT AND MYSTERIOUS KINGDOM OF CRETE. IT WAS TO GREECE THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL CAME TO FOUND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. TURBULENT CENTURIES OF CONQUEST BY CONTENDING EMPIRES HAVE PRODUCED A MODERN NATION IN WHICH THE MIX OF CULTURAL INFLUENCES IS UNIQUE. TODAY GREECE IS A BUSY TRADING, AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL NATION, BUT BOTH ON THE MAINLAND OR ONE OF THE 2000 ISLANDS OF THE AGEAN AND IONIAN SEAS THE VISITOR CAN FIND TIMELESS BEAUTY AND A PACE OF LIFE THAT HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE JASN SET SAIL WITH HIS ARGONAUTS. THE GREEKS THEMSELVES-VIVACIOUS, VOLATILE AS THE WINDS AND SEASONS-ARE AS WARM AND GENEROUS TODAY AS WHEN HOMER DESCRIBED THEM THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THIS BOOK TURNS TOWARD THE STRANGER THE FRIENDLY FACE OF GREET FOR WHICH THE GREEKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RENOWNED.

Greece and the Greek Islands

GALLERY BOOKS

An international collection on inclusion! This book features case studies from teachers, leaders and educational professors on inclusion in schools. Using a conception of inclusion that acknowledges issues of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion and ability, this book provides readers with a useful blend of theory and practice. Each case is situated in a school setting and offers readers opportunities to learn about the complexities and challenges associated with issues of exclusion and to develop practices that support inclusion.

Case Studies for Inclusive Educators & Leaders

Griffiths, Darrin

Word & Deed Publishing Incorporated

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Legare Street Press

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