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Richard A Gabriel
Of the thousands of commanders who served in historys armies, why is it that only a few are remembered as great leaders of men in battle? What combination of personal…
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Henri J. M. Nouwen
"Timeless wisdom for life from one of the great spiritual masters of our age."-James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
The beloved author of The Return of the Prodigal…
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Richard Gabriel
The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations–in Sontay to rescue…
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Share the Life Odyssey of the Author charting 50 years of Profound Supernormal experiences in preparation for a special task in Egypt Now following a decade of below-the-radar exploration beneath…
Richard A. Gabriel
Jesus The Egyptian is a revolutionary attempt to examine the origins of Christianity as historical artifacts and not theological ones. The author offers the theory that Christianity is historically rooted…
Lion Of The Sun continues the saga of Thutmose III (1480-1426 B.C.E.) of Egypt as told by his oldest friend and scribe, Thaneni, in the chronicle entitled Warrior Pharaoh (iUniverse…
This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, one of the greatest generals in military history, surely the equal of Hannibal and Scipio in tactical brilliance and ranking right…
Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh…
Gabriel examines 18 ancient army systems, from the armies that advanced the objectives of the Sumer and Akkad empires to the Ottomans. In each instance he examines the organizational structure…
To Serve With Honor should be required reading for all members of the officer corps of the United States military. This treatise on military ethics goes a long way in…
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The resulting sets of data are divided into twelve categories dealing with various aspects of military service in the Soviet Union: general views of military service, military life, combat ability…
Colored by the popular and official mythologies of heroism, the accepted view of mental collapse during combat is that it is a fairly rare occurrence that can be attributed to…
Although war has been analyzed from many perspectives, no scholar has satisfactorily explained why the human race fights and how we came to create a degree of military sophistication capable…
Examines six major military figures of the Western Ancient World to see what makes great captains great.
Gabriel offers a startling new look at Judaism and Christianity by attempting to trace their historical theological roots, not to the revelations of God, but to the common theological ancestor…
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That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier. Best…
Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. This title explores the long-hidden world of ancient military medicine to reveal its…
Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam’s first great general. While there have been numerous accounts of Muhammad the Prophet, this is the first…
In the course of his thirty-two-year reign over ancient Egypt, Thutmose III fought an impressive seventeen campaigns. He fought more battles over a longer period of time and experienced more…
The military genius of Philip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great
Highlighting the greatest general of the Roman Empire
The Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had…
No one has ever analyzed the Bible as a military history Gabriel provides the first attempt at a continuous historical narrative of the military history of ancient Israel.
The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing professional army, military academies, general staffs, military training, permanent arms industries, written texts on tactics, military…
This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and…
Rummonds Richard-Gabriel
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Richard Webster
A popular figure in religious works of art, the archangel Gabriel is most famous for the Annunciation: telling the Virgin Mary that she would give birth to the Messiah. God’‘s…
Professor Richard A. Gabriel
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Richard P. Gabriel
This final report of the Stanford Lisp Performance Study describes implementation techniques, performance tradeoffs, benchmarking techniques, and performance results for all of the major Lisp dialects in use today.
New poetry from computer scientist Richard P. Gabriel.
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous leaders of all time.This controversial reassessment concludes that Alexander’s claim to the status of military genius is not supported by evidence…
Reveals the secrets of military greatness, timeless principles of leadership applicable today
Each chapter contains Professor Gabriel’s thinking on an aspect of ancient military history, selected for significance or interest.
