The Lost Tommies

The Lost Tommies
Author: Ross Coulthart
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 1136
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0008110395

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‘Lost Tommies’ brings together never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies and their amazing stories in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive.

Female Tommies

Female Tommies
Author: Elisabeth Shipton
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0750957484

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The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history. Female Tommies looks at the military role of women worldwide during the Great War and reveals the extraordinary women who served on the frontline. Through their diaries, letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate and fight for their country. Follow British Flora Sandes as she joins the Serbian Army and takes up a place in the rearguard of the Iron Regiment as they retreat from the Bulgarian advance. Stow away with Dorothy Lawrence as she smuggles herself to Paris, steals a uniform and heads to the front. Enlist in Russia's all-female 'Battalion of Death' alongside peasant women and princesses alike. The personal accounts of these women, who were members of organisations such as the US Army Signal Corps, the Canadian Army Medical Corps, the FANY, WRAF, WRNS, WAAC and many others, provide a valuable insight into what life was like for women in a male-dominated environment.

Some Tommies

Some Tommies
Author: Maurice Dekobra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1919
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

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Tin Can Tommies: Darkest Hour

Tin Can Tommies: Darkest Hour
Author: Mark Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781985399655

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A reluctant young hero haunted by the ghosts of his past. A team of mechanical warriors resurrected for one last stand. A tyrannical dictator hell-bent on exploiting the atom...brJune 1940. As Blitzkrieg burns through Europe, Corporal Jack Stone escapes Dunkirk by the skin of his teeth leaving Germany with its prize in sight across the English Channel: Great Britain - a stubborn little island that now stands alone.brRecruited by Winston Churchill to lead a team of robot commandos - veteran machines of the Great War nicknamed the Tin Can Tommies - Jack must venture into battle once again on an audacious mission deep behind enemy lines. But with dissention in the ranks, a traitor in their midst and Jack's nemesis hot on his heels, the odds are stacked against them.brWhatever happens, the Tommies will be in the thick of it - but as time runs out Jack will find himself in a deadly battle for survival as he confronts not only the shadows of his past, but an enemy whose insidious plan for world domination threatens the freedom of mankind itself.brEchoing the great British war films of the seventies, DARKEST HOUR is the first in a series of gripping wartime adventures featuring Jack Stone and the Tin Can Tommies - with explosive action, twists, thrills and a cast of compelling characters - this is dieselpunk military sci-fi with a pulp comic WW2 twist!brTIN CAN TOMMIES - BRITANNIA JUST BROKE OUT THE BIG GUNS!

Dark Ghettos

Dark Ghettos
Author: Tommie Shelby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674970500

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Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought Winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor—such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime—as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to “fix” ghettos or “help” their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. “Provocative...[Shelby] doesn’t lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers ‘no new political strategies or policy proposals.’ What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and conservatives alike, that ghettos are ‘problems’ best addressed with narrowly targeted government programs or civic interventions. For Shelby, ghettos are something more troubling and less tractable: symptoms of the ‘systemic injustice’ of the United States. They represent not aberrant dysfunction but the natural workings of a deeply unfair scheme. The only real solution, in this way of thinking, is the ‘fundamental reform of the basic structure of our society.’” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Hip-Hop and Philosophy
Author: Derrick Darby
Publisher: Open Court
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0812697790

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Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit — and often explicit — in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the connection between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.

We Who Are Dark

We Who Are Dark
Author: Tommie Shelby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674043529

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We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity. Tommie Shelby argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. In developing his defense of black solidarity, he draws on the history of black political thought, focusing on the canonical figures of Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Memories of Tommie's

Memories of Tommie's
Author: Joan Goodrich Adams
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-11-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1304622177

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Memories of Tommie's is a book about Tommie Goodrich who had a dream to be a "soda jerk" and his wife Helen Virvan Goodrich, who worked hard to help him accomplish this. It is a story about a small town coffee shop/soda shop/ice cream parlor that was everyone's favorite place to go and why they enjoyed going there. It also is a story about the author, Joan Goodrich Adams, growing up with Tommie, Helen and the shop. Maybe it will shake your memory bank and bring back good, wholesome memories of your hometown or a place that you remember with fond memories.

Black Tommies

Black Tommies
Author: Ray Costello
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 178138861X

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Offers an overview of the role played by Black British soldiers in the First World War.

Silent Gesture

Silent Gesture
Author: Tommie Smith
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008-08-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1592136419

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The story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged it.