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The CSS Shenandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War and was the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe. But what was Captain James Waddell's true relationship with his Yankee prisoner Lillias Nichols and how did it determine the ship's final destination? This is the true story behind the cruise of the Shenandoah, brought to light for the first time in 150 years.

Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, practice and politics of contemporary peace operations.

Originally published: New York: Harmony Books, 1987.

Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both conventional military outposts of the North American frontier - wooden stockades with sentry towers and blockhouses. Both lasted but briefly - about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed "massacres" of Indians outside their wall. This book reexamines the traumatic events at both forts.

The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston. All three fought the Creeks and each would have his part to play two decades later when the Alamo was stormed. This book tells the stories of the two landmark battles - Fort Mims and the Alamo - and the interwoven lives of Jackson, Crockett and Houston.

This book approaches special interest tourism from the perspective of both supply and demand, and has a clear, user-friendly structure. Covering the practical applications of research and the key emerging issues for royal, dark, festival, slow and pro-poor tourism among others, it includes case studies by international academics and practitioners.

This Student Book has been approved by AQA and provides full support for AQA's new linear AS Level and for Year 1 of the full A Level. This book supports the major changes in assessment style. Using clear and concise explanations, and abundant worked examples, it covers all the pure, mechanics and statistics content needed.

This book provides an understanding of the concepts and objectives of expert systems. It is a practical guide, intended to help the practitioner in identifying potential application in his/her own practice, and to understand the limitations of the technology.

Explore one of the finest regions of Wales with this illustrated guide. Eighteen walks and twenty-seven pubs are featured that offer a full exploration of this magical region.

This is the first book promoting the use of stochastic, or random, processes to understand, model and predict our climate system. It shows how such methods improve climate simulation and prediction, compared with more conventional bulk-formula parameterization procedures, and is invaluable to graduates and researchers working on climate models.

Number 1 BestsellerGangland! investigates who is pulling the strings behind the scenes - the families that form the Irish mafia - and examines the way in which their net has spread across Ireland and beyond.

There are Christians who in mid-life decide to abandon their faith and become Buddhists. Paul Williams did the opposite. After 20 years practising and teaching Tibetan Buddhism, he astonished his family and friends in 1999 by converting to Roman Catholicism. In this book he explains why.