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Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print... Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Evan Thomas
R786 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R139 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Hardcover): Evan Thomas Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Hardcover)
Evan Thomas
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan-a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history-with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike's Bluff and Sea of Thunder.

Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Hardcover): Evan Thomas Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Hardcover)
Evan Thomas
R1,035 R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Save R154 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Very Best Men - The Daring Early Years of the CIA (Paperback, New ed): Evan Thomas The Very Best Men - The Daring Early Years of the CIA (Paperback, New ed)
Evan Thomas
R558 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R89 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Very Best Men tells the story of the four men who ran covert operations for the CIA from World War II to Vietnam. Frank Wisner was a wealthy southern gentleman who arrived in Washington via Wall Street and whose wife ran the most active salon in Georgetown. He was the creator of the Office of Policy Coordination, the CIA's covert action wing. Wisner helped foment the failed revolution in Hungary in 1956. Wisner had a breakdown, and committed suicide in 1965. Richard Bissell took over the OPC after Wisner's breakdown, and presided over the Agency's wildest days. He ordered the assassination of several foreign leaders and organised a series of attempted coups. When John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960, Bissell introduced himself to the new president as 'your basic man-eating shark'. Five months later Bissell was forced to resign over the Bay of Pigs. Tracy Barnes served under Wisner and Bissell, and oversaw the Bay of Pigs operation. With Bissell he hired the mafia to kill Castro. He was never at a loss for ideas. Unfortunately, he had trouble telling the good ones from the bad. He was quietly dismissed from the Agency in 1966. Desmond Fitzgerald ran the secret wars in Laos and Tibet. Later, he organised assassination plots against Castro. He was also responsible for covering them up, fearing that the CIA would be linked to Kennedy's assassination. Drawing on extensive interviews with former operatives, Thomas has written a highly readable narrative that brings to life a crucial period of American history. About the Author Evan Thomas is assistant managing editor of Newsweek. He has written more than a hundred cover stories on national and international news. He has won two National Magazine Awards and he has taught writing at Harvard and Princeton. He has written seven books, one of which, John Paul Jones, was a New York Times bestseller. He is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Washington DC.

John Paul Jones - Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy (Paperback): Evan Thomas John Paul Jones - Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy (Paperback)
Evan Thomas
R571 R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Save R88 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." Evan Thomas's minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones's "Bonhomme Richard" and the British man-of-war "Serapis" off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel.
Drawing on Jones's correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution -- John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas's biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones's spirit was classically American.

Robert Kennedy: His Life (Paperback): Evan Thomas Robert Kennedy: His Life (Paperback)
Evan Thomas
R613 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R91 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it." And "Bad Bobby," the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas's unvarnished but sympathetic and fair-minded portrayal is packed with new details about Kennedy's early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations, including new revelations about the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his long struggles with J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson.

Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous (Hardcover): Walker Evans Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous (Hardcover)
Walker Evans; Edited by Thomas Zander; Text written by David Campany, Heinz Liesbrock, Jerry Thompson
R1,381 R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Save R270 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Global Engineers - Building a Safe and Equitable World Together (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Evan Thomas The Global Engineers - Building a Safe and Equitable World Together (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Evan Thomas
R4,434 Discovery Miles 44 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity. This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. However, the structural and historical barriers to global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and improving lives. Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated their careers to searching for solutions to global development challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering.

The Global Engineers - Building a Safe and Equitable World Together (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Evan Thomas The Global Engineers - Building a Safe and Equitable World Together (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Evan Thomas
R4,485 Discovery Miles 44 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity. This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. However, the structural and historical barriers to global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and improving lives. Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated their careers to searching for solutions to global development challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering.

First - Sandra Day O'Connor (Paperback): Evan Thomas First - Sandra Day O'Connor (Paperback)
Evan Thomas
R604 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R108 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Introduction to Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback - Advanced Theory and Applications (Hardcover, 2nd edition): James R. Evans,... Introduction to Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback - Advanced Theory and Applications (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
James R. Evans, Thomas H. Budzynski, Helen Kogan Budzynski, Andrew Abarbanel
R2,355 Discovery Miles 23 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study of Quantitative EEGs and Neurofeedback offer a window into brain physiology and function via computer and statistical analyses, suggesting innovative approaches to the improvement of attention, anxiety, mood and behavior. Resources for understanding what QEEG and Neurofeedback is, how they are used, and to what disorders and patients they can be applied are scarce, and this volume serves as an ideal tool for clinical researchers and practicing clinicians, providing a broad overview of the most interesting topics relating to the techniques. The revised coverage of advancements, new applications (e.g. Aspberger's, music therapy, LORETA, etc.), and combinations of prior approaches make the second edition a necessary companion to the first. The top scholars in the field have been enlisted and contributions will offer both the breadth needed for an introductory scholar and the depth desired by a clinical professional.
*Detailed new protocols for treatment of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and PTSD
*Newest protocol in Z-score training enables clinicians to extend their practices
*LORETA diagnostic tool lets the clinician watch for changes deep in the brain through working with surface EEG patterns

Genesis - The Prince of Time: Evan Thomas Genesis - The Prince of Time
Evan Thomas
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An English and Welch Vocabulary - Or, an Easy Guide to the Antient British Language ... to Which Is Prefixed, a Grammar of the... An English and Welch Vocabulary - Or, an Easy Guide to the Antient British Language ... to Which Is Prefixed, a Grammar of the Welch Language by Thomas Richards (Hardcover)
Thomas Evans, Thomas Richards
R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An English and Welch Vocabulary - Or, an Easy Guide to the Antient British Language ... to Which Is Prefixed, a Grammar of the... An English and Welch Vocabulary - Or, an Easy Guide to the Antient British Language ... to Which Is Prefixed, a Grammar of the Welch Language by Thomas Richards (Paperback)
Thomas Evans, Thomas Richards
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide - Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Descriptive Plates (Paperback): Oliver Evans,... The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide - Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Descriptive Plates (Paperback)
Oliver Evans, Thomas P. Jones
R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Latin and Greek Verse (Hardcover): Evans Thomas Saunders Latin and Greek Verse (Hardcover)
Evans Thomas Saunders
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Latin and Greek Verse (Paperback): Evans Thomas Saunders Latin and Greek Verse (Paperback)
Evans Thomas Saunders
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray - Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the... Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray - Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third (Hardcover)
Robert Harding Evans, Thomas Wright
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray - Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the... Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray - Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third (Paperback)
Robert Harding Evans, Thomas Wright
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide - Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Descriptive Plates (Hardcover): Oliver Evans,... The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide - Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Descriptive Plates (Hardcover)
Oliver Evans, Thomas P. Jones
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wise Men - Six Friends and the World They Made (Paperback, Reissue): Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas The Wise Men - Six Friends and the World They Made (Paperback, Reissue)
Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas
R732 R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Save R136 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II. A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos and leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day. The Wise Men shares the stories of Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide - in Five Parts (Hardcover): Oliver 1755-1819 Evans, Thomas 1738-1799 Ellicott The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide - in Five Parts (Hardcover)
Oliver 1755-1819 Evans, Thomas 1738-1799 Ellicott
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Friends' Library - Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of... The Friends' Library - Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends; 4 (Paperback)
William 1787-1867 Evans, Thomas 1798-1868 Evans
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Piety Promoted, in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers - ; 1 (Paperback): William 1787-1867 Ed... Piety Promoted, in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers - ; 1 (Paperback)
William 1787-1867 Ed Evans; Created by Thomas 1798-1868 Evans
R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Friends' Library - Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of... The Friends' Library - Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends; 6 (Paperback)
William 1787-1867 Evans, Thomas 1798-1868 Evans
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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