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Almost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged. Parallel with this emergence of the nations came the development of national armies to protect the newly-won borders and independence, yet throughout this period the old feudal method of raising an army persisted. This fascinating study by Terence Wise explores the organization, weapons an...

Originally published in 1915, when Jennings Cropper Wise was commandant of the Virginia Military Institute, "The Long Arm of Lee" has never been surpassed as an authoritative study of the Confederate artillery in the Civil War. Volume I describes the organization and tactics of the field batteries of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and their performance in famous battles, including those at Bull Run, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mount...

Poetry. In THE KINGDOM OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE, the cruel weights of history are freshly remembered while computer-age white noise is subject to an almost lascivious forgetting. The center will not hold, the apocalypse is, was, and will be. Suzanne Wise's imagination is assertive and surprising, her sensibility extends from the deliciously funny to the austerely tragic. The music of electronic angst wilds through these poems of displacement and vic...

Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills-and don't know how to help. Phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationalese. The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching reading-from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. This one book supplies parents wit...

The High-Performance Mind presents a fascinating and enlightening breakthrough on how to achieve the ultimate state of human efficiency, well-being, and balance through "brainwave training". Drawing from some of the latest scientific research and dozens of case histories, author Anna Wise shows us how the four kinds of brainwaves - beta, alpha, theta, and delta - communicate with one another to pass information between conscious and unconsciou...

In the summer of 1804, the eagle was chosen as the symbol of the French Army by Napoleon himself. The Emperor's sculptor, Chaudet, made the original model, and from this were cast bronze copies in the workshop of Thomire, which would be proudly borne into battle by many a French regiment. This fascinating work by Terence Wise explores in depth the flags, colours and guidons of the Napoleonic wars, concentrating on France and her allies, and co...

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Four distinguished scholars detail the substantial problems of large-scale early retirement, inadequate personal saving for retirement, heavy taxation of pensions, and the crisis of looming health care costs. They offer principles that need to be followed if our nation is to adapt gracefully to the coming age wave.

Title: Popular Objections to Methodism Considered and Answered: Or, the Convert's Counsellor Respecting His Church Relation: With Reasons Why Methodist Converts Should Join a Methodist Church Publisher: Boston: J.P. Magee Publication date: 1856 Subjects: Methodist Church Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free tria...