Gordon A Mitchell

Gord Mitchell

Gordon Mitchell (born Charles Allen Pendleton; July 29, 1923 September 20, 2003) was an American actor and bodybuilder.

Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Strategy (The Security Continuum)

The U.S. war in Iraq was not only an intelligence failure—it was a failure in democratic discourse. Hitting First offers a critical analysis of the political dialogue leading up to the American embrace of preventive war as national policy and as the rationale for the invasion and occupation of Iraq....

THE MAN WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS: A LOVE STORY

A beautiful but mysterious emergency room nurse meets a dark-souled obituary writer under the craziest of circumstances, just as the 1986 Christmas season is getting under way in New York's Greenwich Village. Together they take a wild journey through a series of holiday disasters, culminating in the...

R.J. Mitchell: Schooldays to Spitfire

This book tells the definitive story of how the Spitfire, Britain's WWII single-seat fighter plane,was designed, built, and tested, and how close it came to not happening at all.

R.J. Mitchell: School Days to Spitfire

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods (Sustainable Urban Development Series)

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the...

Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy (Rhetoric & Public Affairs)

Mitchell's analysis yields original insights into the origins and dynamics of Reagan's Star Wars proposal, the postmodern complexities of strategic deception on Patriot missile accuracy in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as well as fresh perspectives on Theater High Altitude Air Defense and National Miss...

Together in the Land a Reading of the Bo: A Reading of the Book of Joshua (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament)

The book of Joshua is well known for its tales of slaughter and destruction. This reading shows that ambiguity created by means of juxtaposing contrasting ideas is a feature of the compositional arrangement in Joshua. While there may be a dream land emptied of foreigners awaiting Israelite occupatio...

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods (Sustainable Urban Development Series)

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the...

Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Strategy

Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Strategy

Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy

Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy

R . J. Mitchell, Schooldays to Spitfire

R.J. Mitchell, Schooldays to Spitfire

Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa