A L Todd: 21 books
Abandoned
The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Alden L. Todd’s Abandoned has been called “A model account of perhaps the most ill-fated and certainly the most grimly fascinating episode in the annals of Arctic exploration....” Working extensively with primary sources—official correspondence, diaries, letters, notes by the expedition’s...
by A. L. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
As the debate droned on in Congress about whether to spend money on a rescue team for Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and the other men of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Arctic, the explorers were dying one by one from the cold and lack of supplies. Henrietta Greely was determined that if the...
Box Set: Dark Stories
Contains: Hides the Dark Tower, In a Cat's Eye, and Dark Luminous Wings
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This 3-book box set is a collection of three anthologies of Dark Stories:
Hides the Dark Tower
In a Cat's Eye
Dark Luminous Wings
Hides the Dark Tower
Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over...
by Sherry D. Ramsey, Ron Collins, Janet Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Gods, nymphs, vampires, deathless clones, cursed mages and those who serve them face perils where immortality acts as either curse or blessing or...both. Souls and selves lie at stake in this eclectic bundle.
Featuring:
The Goddess Problem by Sherry D. Ramsey
Glamour of the God-Touched...
Presidency and Domestic Policy
Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book systematically examines the first terms of every president from FDR to Barack Obama and assesses the leadership style and policy agenda of each. Success in bringing about policy change is shown to hinge on the leadership style and skill in managing a variety of institutional and public relationships....
The Post-Heroic Presidency: Leveraged Leadership in an Age of Limits, 2nd Edition
Leveraged Leadership in an Age of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The immediate post-World War II era was undeniably a period of American power and influence. Even during the Cold War, the United States was the leader of the West, exerting wide-ranging power internationally. But beginning with the Vietnam War, America began experiencing a series of setbacks and...
by William C. Irvine, H. A. Ironside, W. E. Vine
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
The days in which you and I are living are days in which Christians need to know their Bibles, for the only way by which we may know whether or not a system of teaching is of God is by viewing the system through the lens of Holy Writ—reading the system in the light of the Bible and not reading the...
Parks, Peace, and Partnership
Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Dragon Writers
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time.
Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...
Innocence and Deceit
14 Fairy Tales Retold, Reimagined, and Reinvented
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
What if Cinderella was the wicked one, and manipulated her kind, loving stepmother and stepsisters?
Is being a handsome, charming prince really as effortless and trouble-free as it seems?
Would you be alarmed if you realized that the beautiful red shoes you’re admiring change their...
Philosophic Values and World Citizenship
Locke to Obama and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke—the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa—is placed in conversation with leading...
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump
Images from Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
*Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:*Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place”...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
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