Paul B. Hill Books

Incisive portraits of the great commanders of Norman warfare. Covers the Norman conquests in France, England, Italy, the Near East.

Accessible, authoritative study of armed conflict in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Hartmut Esser gehört zu den einflussreichsten und meistdiskutierten deutschen Soziologen der Gegenwart. Sein Werk steht für eine explizit erklärende, empirisch fundierte und prinzipiell integrative Soziologie. Bekannte Autoren setzen sich hier kritisch mit den verschiedenen Bereichen von Essers Werk auseinander, die für die Soziologie als Ganze von zentraler Bedeutung sind: der Handlungstheorie, der Logik soziologischer Erklärungen, der Differenzierungstheorie sowie dem empirischen Anwendungsgebiet der Integration von Migranten und ethnischen Minderheiten. Hartmut Esser diskutiert und erwidert die jeweiligen Einwände. Der Band gibt somit zentrale Anstöße für zukünftige inhaltliche und methodische Auseinandersetzungen. Mit Beiträgen von Hans Albert, Raymond Boudon, Siegwart Lindenberg, Bernhard Nauck, Werner Raub, Uwe Schimank, Michael Schmid, Thomas Schwinn, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Thomas Voss, Andreas Wimmer sowie den Herausgebern.

Military and political history of the conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and Danes up to the death of Alfred, king of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.

Paul Hill was a well-respected NASA scientist when, in the early 1950s, he had a UFO sighting. Soon after, he built the first flying platform and was able to duplicate the UFO's tilt-to-control maneuvers. Official policy, however, prevented him from proclaiming his findings. "I was destined," says Hill, "to be as unidentified as the flying objects." For the next twenty-five years, Hill acted as an unofficial clearinghouse at NASA, collecting and analyzing sightings' reports for physical properties, propulsion possibilities, dynamics, etc. To refute claims that UFOs defy the laws of physics, he had to make "technological sense... of the unconventional object." After his retirement from NASA, Hill finally completed his remarkable analysis. This book, published posthumously, presents his findings that UFOs "obey, not defy, the laws of physics." Vindicating his own sighting and thousands of others, he proves that UFO technology is not only explainable, but attainable.

Military and political history of the conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and Danes.

In-depth assessment of the Knights Templar and their contribution to crusading warfare číst celé

The weapons and armor of the Anglo-Saxons are described the spears, the scramsaxes, axes, bows, swords, helmets, shields and mail that were employed in the close-quarter fighting of the day. Among the most valuable sections of the study are those dealing with actual experience of battle and siege with the brutal reality of combat as it is revealed by campaigns against the Danes.

This work features detailed reconstructions of the battles at Ashdown in 871 and Edington in 878 as well as Alfred's later campaigns in the 890s. It incorporates historical and archaeological evidence to give insights into early medieval armies and warfare.