Peter Taylor
Author
Series
Publisher
Infinite Ideas
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The 36 Stratagems is a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics and in war, as well as in civilian life, often through unorthodox means. Approximately 300 years ago an unknown scholar compiled the stratagems, a strangely seductive meditation on deception. The stratagems are ordered in categories according to your current position. 'Advantageous Stratagems', 'Opportunistic Stratagems' and 'Attacking Stratagems' are used...
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
According to legend, a group of Jewish families survived the Holocaust by hiding out for months in the 77 miles of caves in Ukraine known as Priest's Grotto. Cavers Taylor and Nicola chronicle their trip to explore the caves and uncover the story of the survivors.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 298-299
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Imperial War Museums
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A war as extensive and long-lasting as World War II produces an incalculable number of artifacts. And museums as big and well-stocked as the Imperial War Museums have plenty of the ones you'd expect to find: tanks, jets, helmets, guns, and the like. But there was a whole lot more to the war -- and a surprising amount of it is, well, downright weird. This pulls the strangest items from deep within the IWM's archives to offer a surprising new, wildly...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"[A] fascinating true story of a daring intelligence operation prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Lt. Commander Montagu plants letters regarding the British intention to land in Greece on a dead soldier outfitted to look like an English officer, knowing that the papers will ultimately fall into German hands. What follows is a taut cat-and-mouse game as British Intelligence races to stay one step ahead of the Nazi agent dispatched to verify...
18) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome, but married, Italian man while vacationing in Venice"--Container.