Most Popular Books by Evan Thomas

Ésta es la historia de la última gran campaña naval: la guerra del Pacífico, que culminó en 1944 con la batalla del Golfo de Leyte, la mayor de todos los tiempos, en que participaron trescientos buques y cerca de doscientos mil hombres. Una historia que Evan Thomas nos cuenta a través de la experiencia vivida por cuatro hombres: por el lado de los norteamericanos, el almirante Halsey y el comandante Evans, un indio cherokee que condujo a su buque a la destrucción en una carga suicida, y, por el de los japoneses, el almirante Kurita, que optó finalmente por salvar las vidas de sus hombres, y el almirante Ugaki, un samurai que recibió el mando de todos los kamikazes y se convirtió él mismo en el último kamikaze de esta guerra. Thomas, que ha reconstruido esta historia no solo a partir de los documentos, sino también de los testimonios de los supervivientes, ha escrito un libro inolvidable, que conjuga la épica de la guerra en el mar con el dramatismo de las historias personales de sus protagonistas.

"Dalam ""A Long Time Coming"", yang ditulis oleh Evan Thomas, Newsweek menyajikan kisah mendalam tentang pemilihan presiden Amerika 2008 yang bersejarah. Narasi menarik ini menampilkan bangkitnya Barack Obama, kembalinya John McCain, pertarungan panjang antara Obama dan Hillary Clinton, kemunculan Sarah Palin yang mengguncang, dan perjalanan akhir Obama menuju kemenangan. Narasi ini menawarkan gambaran mendetail tentang Clinton, McCain, dan Obama selama mereka bertarung, melewati saat-saat penuh frustrasi dan keraguan serta pertengkaran dengan keluarga dan penasihat mereka. Narasi ini mengungkapkan konflik dalam kampanye Clinton yang berantakan, keputusan McCain untuk mengubah strategi kampanye, juga cara Obama menjadikan dirinya pemimpin kampanye terbesar dan terbaik dalam sejarah politik Amerika."

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his examination of Ike''s White House years, he was a master of calculated duplicity. He could be patient and ruthless in the con, and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end. This is the story of how he won.

Genesis has been defeated and Lloyd''s world is safe from Corruption! Lloyd, Zahna, and Earl, have all walked away from the War for the Sands of Time with their lives and new abilities, ready to finally put time-travel and multi-versal crisis behind them. Cyrus has officially assembled them as an "elite team" for the M.S.O. with a familiar figure joining them as well... Karina! Dozens of Entities have mysteriously rained down from space and the enormously powerful orbs are causing danger wherever they turn up. The team has their hands full with this problem and barely have time to notice something far worse lurking in the shadows. A new group of cultists and terrorists are leaving destruction in their wake and Cyrus is determined to discover who or what is behind them. And meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone, a key figure from someone''s past is on a path that leads back to them... and when they arrive, nothing will be the same.

Readers brought up on Hollywood westerns will have their eyes opened by this story of a working cowboy. Although he never chased a rustler or rescued a pretty girl and probably couldn''t even hire on as an extra in a B-grade western, Ed Alford (or "Fat") has worked cattle most of his life. Fred Gipson''s vivid, earthy book about this cowhand, now in paperback, tells what the job is really like, the hardships, the hell-raising, and the sheer monotony of daily tasks.Fat Alford became a cowboy because he didn''t think picking cotton was any way for a man to make a living. Although he may not have looked much like a cowboy and certainly started out green, he learned to rope a cow in an impenetrable brush, to break a mean horse, to get by with poor gear, worse food, and sorry mounts in freezing cold or blistering heat and still get the job done.Gipson''s warm and rousing account captures the vivid reality of how it was and introduces us to a remarkable character--a working cowhand. This new paperback edition of Cowhand is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T125272 Shrewsbury: printed by T. Wood, and sold by the booksellers in town and country, [1786?]. 27, [1]p.; 4°

Ordinary kinds, K, admit of leeway, both in the number of things that must be arranged K-wise and even in what arrangements count as being arranged K-wise. Consider a chair. A slightly smaller collection of things in pretty much the same arrangement would presumably still be some things arranged chairwise and would count as a chair. But there are plausibly many such collections of things in the vicinity of any chair. Thus, it seems that I am seated in many chairs. This is an instance of the problem of the many.

Resiliency projects are being implemented throughout coastal communities with the intention of reducing the loss of salt marsh habitat. Salt marsh enhancement projects may have the benefit of minimizing physical coastal impacts, but enhancement activities are not fully understood as a result of potential impacts on salt marsh ecosystems, particularly nekton or fish and decapod communities. Questions involving salt marsh enhancement remain in regard to negative impacts on nekton communities and hydrologic habitat connectivity. To evaluate the impacts of salt marsh enhancement in reference to nekton community structures, I compared nekton density in restored and non-restored locations on two salt marshes in New Jersey. My results suggest that salt marsh thin-layer placement impacts habitat use, with some habitat features becoming lost for nekton during the initial construction phase. Specifically, greater density of decapods, particularly Palaemonetes pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp), were found post restoration, suggesting that their presence could represent early successional species providing unquestionable ecological importance for transporting energy and nutrients throughout multiple salt marsh trophic levels. Additionally, two years post salt marsh restoration, young of the year Cyprinodon variegatus (sheepshead minnow) and Fundulus majalis (striped killifish) were found utilizing restored salt marsh pools under severe biological thresholds such as low dissolved oxygen and elevated water temperature conditions. In future studies, greater emphasis should be focused on the initial oxygen availability in sediments. Regions exhibiting low oxygen concentrations may influence vegetative species composition and growth. Additionally, reestablishing vegetative cover to areas that receive excess dredged material may be critical to ensure the creation and enhancement of valuable coastal habitats. Lastly, ensuring hydrologic habitat connectivity (i.e., connecting tidal and subtidal creeks with restored salt marsh pools) before placement of dredged material is applied for thin-layer restoration, is critical to ensure maximum habitat availability for nekton species. Clearly, sea level rise can result in salt marsh loss along the coast and thin-layer placement can be used to counter these effects if properly planned and administered appropriately to address plant community restoration and nekton use.