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  • Molly and the Spatterdasher
    Robert J. Taylor
    A Novel Based on Family LoreSet in the mid-1800s, A Gripping Tale of Desperation, Disaster, and DeterminationIt’s 1844 in Swansea, a grimy industrial town in South Wales dominated by copper smelters. John Gibson, destitute and desperate, has just turned eighteen and he’s drunk, at the mercy of a recruiter who signs him to a twenty-year stint in the British Army. Sober, hungover...
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  • The Laws of Small Projects
    Robert J. Taylor / Robert JTaylor
    Humorous, Wise, Literate and Short.The Laws of Small Projects postulates immutable laws about small projects that fill the gap in human understanding left by the sages Parkinson, Peter and Murphy half a century ago. With several droll cartoons, it illuminates what small projects can teach us about ourselves and the meaning of life.While never articulated until now, you innately...
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  • MEMORIES LOST AND FOUND
    Robert J. Taylor / Robert JTaylor
    Each year millions of people search for clues about where they came from and who they are. That’s where his story begins. Urged on by his mother’s advancing Alzheimer’s, he turned to her aging siblings for the family stories only they knew, before they too faded into the firmament. Over hours of shared laughter, tears, and dark coffee, he learned that his mother was the personi...
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    13,79 €

  • Hardship Post
    Robert J. Taylor / Robert JTaylor
    'Was it the Opportunity of a Lifetime...or an Invitation to Disaster?'The job was intriguing-working for the Aga Khan, the rich and influential imam of the Ismaili Muslims, building the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi. They said it would be a world-class institution, the best on the subcontinent. But he had his doubts. Yes, Pakistan was exotic, and mysterious, and full ...
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  • Containment
    Robert J. Taylor
    The purpose of this monograph is to investigate the nature of militant Islam in the context of a global ideological threat; to further examine the strategic concepts associated with the theory of containment developed to win the Cold War; and propose an alternative national strategy of containment to successfully execute the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The first section def...
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    17,35 €

  • The Civil War Letters of William A. Robinson and the Story of the 89th New York Volunteer Infantry
    Robert J. Taylor / Robert JTaylor
    President Lincoln’s call for volunteers to fight for the restoration of the Union was answered by common men throughout the United States. William A. Robinson was one of them - a simple farmer and a family man from Delaware County, New York, who enlisted for a three year term in Co. I of the 89th NY Volunteer Infantry in the fall of 1861. Over the course of those three years Ro...
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    27,86 €