He was political, she was correct. He was an ex-cop, she considered policemen an unnecessary danger to people like her or anybody. It was not a relationship made in heaven. But no one would think of Briarpatch College in that context, much less the isolated community of Middleville. Still, faculty and students alike were shocked when the dean was found dead. As the investigation uncovered more and more suspects, it became clear that the campus contained more complex personalities and more tangled relationships than anyone had suspected.If you've ever attended a small college, you've been to Briarpatch. Your alma mater's endowment may be larger, the buildings newer and the football team more successful, but the faculty, the staff and the cafeteria food are the same everywhere.

The Dean Is Dead

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Urban, William

Mystery

iUniverse

In the fall semester of 1995 Professor Donahue and Chief Biggs investigated the watery demise of Dean Wooda, murdered as part of an insurance scam intended to resolve Briarpatch College's financial problems. Now, only a few months later, they have it all to do over again. Another murder, it appeared. But who did it? And how? Donahue's on-and-off romance of Mary is off again. Can murder bring them together once more? Or will it drive them apart for good? The college's future looks good, thanks to media coverage of the earlier trial-everyone wanted a campus tour that included the sites associated with the scandal, and some visitors were enrolling! If you've ever attended a small college, you know Briarpatch; if you haven't, you should have.

The Dean Is Still Dead: #2 in the Briarpatch College Series

The Livonian Crusade

University Press of America

Draw-A-Person Catalogue for Interpretative Analysis

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Western Psychological Services

The Baltic Crusade

Northern Illinois University Press

The Airbrush artist's handbook of technique: The best of Airbrush digest's how-to articles

Airbrush Digest Book Press

In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, was central and east Europe: Poland/Lithuania, Livonia, Russia, the freebooting Cossacks, a volatile mix of variations on a general Christian theme.\nWilliam Urban's fascinating narrative is an integrated account of early modern war at the sharp end: of campaigns and battles, soldiers and generals. Temporally it extends from the French invasion of Italy in 1494 to Austria's Balkan victories culminating in the 1718 Treaty of Peterwardein. Geographically it covers ground from the Low Countries to the depths of the Ukraine.\nThat narrative in turn focuses Urban's major analytical points: the replacement of crowd armies by professionals, and the professionals integration into crown armies: government-supervised, bureaucratized institutions. The key to this process was the mercenary. Originally recruited because the obligations of feudal levies were too limited, mercenary forces evolved operationally into skilled users of an increasingly complex gunpowder technology in ever more complex tactical situations. By the end of the seventeenth century, soldiers were identifying with the states and the rulers they served.

Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500–1700

History

Ancient Civilizations

Frontline Books

In the fall semester of 1995 Professor Donahue and Chief Biggs investigated the murder of Dean Wooda. The surprising result became stranger as new bodies and new suspicions appeared each semester. By 1997 even those who had seen the dean's corpse off for cremation were wondering when his ghost would cease to haunt the drafty halls of Briarpatch College's oversized Administration building. At the same time all the now-familiar idiocies of American higher education in the Nineties were loose on campus. Everything that happens only once or even rarely elsewhere happened all the time at Briarpatch. As the college at the bottom of the US News ratings (a quasi-popularity poll that was taken seriously at the time), something had to be done to improve Briarpatch's academic reputation. If you've ever attended a small college, you know Briarpatch; if you haven't, you should have-for those who do not become part of a murder investigation, a small college is a great place to get an education, or to teach, or even to be a dean.

The Dean Returns from the Dead: #4 in the Briarpatch College Series

After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain dominating India, and Russia conquering the steppe. The dynamics of resistance to this expansion were remarkably similar to what we see today in ISIS, Afghan and Pakistani Talibans, and various jihadist groups that are more tribal than Islamist. The driving force behind these organizations may be tribal resentment of the modern world undermining long-established traditions and beliefs. Religion – or their interpretation of Islam – is merely a glue that holds the rebels together. Such resistance continues to be met by world powers who misunderstand the motives of the people that take up arms against them, and we should understand that ours is not the first generation to deal with this problem, and ours will probably not be the last. However, there are some methods that work better than others. The failures and successes of the past can help us now and in the future.

Small Wars and their Influence on Nation States: 1500 to the Present

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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