Author: Anthony Groom
Publisher: Kennesaw State University Pre
Keywords: trouble
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933483059
ISBN-13: 9781933483054

Second Edition of Anthony Groom’s award-winning collection of short stories, Trouble No More, set throughout the American South, presents stories that engage with history, politics, class, race, childhood, and life. They are the personal and public troubles of the African American middle class. These stories are about families, intact and estranged, about ordinary lives in extraordinary times.

Author: N. Groom
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: second, handbook, perfume, new
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-06-30
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 0751404039
ISBN-13: 9780751404036

The first edition of this unique book established itself as an unparalleled source of information on perfume. Although it is primarily aimed at perfumers and others in the perfume industry, it has also found substantial sales among a wide range of others including aromatherapists, botanists, and many others who wanted to learn more about this faceted subject. The new edition is now aimed squarely at perfumery marketing specialists and others in the industry world-wide and covers in particular the needs of publicity/advertising teams and journalists, together with sales people and cons

Author: A J R Groom
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: amp, relations, international
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-08-24
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0044451016
ISBN-13: 9780044451013

Through the study of international relations is a conceptual pursuit, it has only been given formal academic recognition this century. This volume reviews how the great thinkers of the past considered relations between political and social units. It then broaches the emergence of a discipline which sought first to explain the state system that had emerged in the 17th century and now struggles to come to grips with many different conceptions of a rapidly transforming world society. International relations "then" looks at the conceptual worlds of 18th and 19th century theorists and practitioners

Author: Winston Groom
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: vicksburg
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0307264254
ISBN-13: 9780307264251

A riveting history of the battle that permanently turned the tide of the Civil War.While Gettysburg is better known, Winston Groom makes clear in this engrossing narrative that Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view. Re-creating the epic campaign that culminated at Vicksburg, Groom details the arduous struggle by the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River valley and to divide the Confederacy in two. He takes us back to 1861, when Lincoln chooses Ulysses S. Grant—seen at the time as a mediocre general with a drinking problem—to lead the Union army sou

Author: Winston Groom
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: gump, forrest
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-10-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743453255
ISBN-13: 9780743453257

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama’s football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary jour

Author: Winston Groom
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: library, war, civil, vintage, vicksburg
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2010-04-20
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0307276775
ISBN-13: 9780307276773

In this thrilling narrative history of the Civil War’s most strategically important campaign, Winston Groom describes the bloody two-year grind that started when Ulysses S. Grant began taking a series of Confederate strongholds in 1861, climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg two years later. For Grant and the Union it was a crucial success that captured the Mississippi River, divided the South in half, and set the stage for eventual victory. Vicksburg, 1863 brings the battles and the protagonists of this struggle to life: we see Grant in all his grim determination, Sherman with his feistiness

Author: Winston Groom
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: battle, new, orleans, laffite, jean, fire, andrew, jackson, patriotic
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1400044367
ISBN-13: 9781400044368

From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two men who—against all expectations and odds—joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans in December 1814. It has all the ingredients of a high-flying adventure story. Unbeknownst to the combatants, the War of l812 has ended, but Andrew Jackson, a brave, charismatic American general—sick with dysentery and commanding a beleaguered garrison—leads a desperate struggle to hold on to the city of N