Andrew: 10354 books
The Eaves of Heaven
A Life in Three Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a son’s searing memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars.
The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed Andrew Pham’s debut, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and...
Starving the South
How the North Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A historian's new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry Confederacy
In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while...
Wade Hampton
Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal...
by Andrew L. Kaufman (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Justice Cardozo's classic study of law, precedent, and how judges think and decide cases. Features a modern, explanatory Foreword by Andrew L. Kaufman, the Harvard law professor recognized as Cardozo's premier biographer. Active Table of Contents, linked footnotes with correct numbers, photographs,...
by Andrew Battell
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Thomas Turner,1 although he furnished Samuel Purchas with a few notes on Brazil, never placed on record what happened to him whilst in Portuguese Africa. Towres was sent to prison at Rio de Janeiro for the heinous offence of eating meat on a Friday; he attempted an escape, was retaken, and condemned...
Harvard Envy
Why Too Many Colleges Overshoot
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Harvard Envy is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.
Exploring the limitations of the exclusive, tradition-bound world of higher education, innovator Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., delivers a vision for making a world-class college experience available...
Father, Forgive
Reflections on peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
For most of his ministry Canon Andrew White has been involved in reconciliation. -The kind of people I engage with are not usually very nice,- he writes. -On the whole, nice people do not cause wars.- In Baghdad he lives daily with violence, and has conducted too many funerals. He knows what peacemaking...
Moondust
In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith’s Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men.
The Apollo...
Battlers and Billionaires
The Story of Inequality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?
In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best.
From egalitarian...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
In the perpetual running fight about the Homeric Homer, Mr. Andrew Lang has been for some years a most prominent champion. In his latest return to the fray, " The World of Homer " (Jazzybee Publishing), he lays about him in a very joyous and triumphant mood. His foemen are all those who...
A Talent for Murder
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Discover the real-life mystery surrounding the queen of crime herself: Agatha Christie. In this “twisty thriller” (Publishers Weekly), Andrew Wilson investigates Christie’s mysterious ten-day disappearance and offers his own gripping explanation, in which Christie is pulled into a riveting case...
by Andrew Seaward
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
ADDICTION: CUNNING, BAFFLING, & POWERFUL
In this gripping debut novel by Andrew Seaward, the lives of three addicts converge following an accidental and horrific death.
Monty Miller, a self-destructive, codependent alcoholic, is wracked by an obsession to drink himself...
Fables and Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and The Blue Fairy Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Four timeless anthologies of cherished fables, fairy tales, and bedtime stories from Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and Andrew Lang.
The most enchanting stories of childhood are included in this sweeping collection. These are the classic tales—of princes and princesses,...
by Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Jeanne De Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Beauty and the Beast – All Four Versions includes the original, adult-oriented edition of the story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (translated from the French by James Robinson Planché), the simplified and shortened version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont which appeared sixteen...