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A middle-aged man, caught up in the doldrums of life, is awakened in mind, body, and spirit, thanks to the highjinks of a group of worm-like creatures who kidnap him and take him on the ride of his life. "In Orville And Erval Bend My Life: The Legends Of Verbal Cartoonery," the protagonist is forced by his peculiar pack of captors to hear them out as they deliver their wacky stories, vignettes, and poetry. The kidnappers have a dark conviviality that is at once confusing, threatening, and entertaining. Why would they need a captive audience for their wit and witticisms? They offer no...

After Napoleon's abandonment of Moscow on 18 October 1812, throughout the subsequent Wars of Liberation that saw most of Europe turn against the French and right up to the capitulation of Paris on 31 March 1814, it was the vast armies of Imperial Russia that bore the brunt of the fighting against forces of France and her dwindling list of allies. The Russian Jaegers - nominally skirmishers, but in reality spearhead troops tasked with a host of different and demanding battlefield roles, from storming villages to defending strongpoints - were a relatively new arm of service that gained...

In this ground-breaking book Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states. Although there are local variations, the most striking feature is the sameness of educational systems. How did this happen? How was education globalized? Spring explains and analyzes this phenomenon and its consequences for human life and the future improvement of social and economic organizations.

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The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.

This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the "American rebellion" at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America.

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