Bill: 4844 books
Ain't My America
The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
From "the finest literary stylist of the American right," a surprising and spirited account of how true conservatives have always been antiwar and anti-empire (Allan Carlson, author of The American Way)
Conservatives love war, empire, and the military-industrial complex. They abhor...
by Bill Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
For the first time, Bill Marsh's terrific collection of outback yarns centred on the Royal Flying Doctor Service are available in one bumper volume. the Royal Flying Doctor Service is a unique icon of Australian culture. Since its beginnings with the Reverend John Flynn in 1928, the RFDS has helped...
by Bill Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns...
Long Island and the Civil War
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties During the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Although no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men--white and black--from current-day Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties answered the call to preserve the Union. While Confederate ships lurked within eight miles of Montauk...
by Bill Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
This fascinating illustrated guide is “a must for any Civil War buff visiting or living in New York City” (New York Journal of Books).
Few Americans associate New York City with the Civil War, but the most populated metropolitan area in the nation, then and now, is filled with scores of monuments,...
Cold
Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a...
by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. [Bill o’th Hoylus End might be termed a local Will-o’th-Wisp. He has been everything by turns, and nothing long. Now, a lean faced lad, “a mere anatomy, a mountebank, a thread bare juggler, a needy, hollow-ey’d,...
Grassroots Philanthropy
Field Notes of a Maverick Grantmaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Set aside the mountains of paper that characterize conventional philanthropy and focus instead on forging enduring partnerships with outstanding individuals. Dare to change the world in imaginative ways that prove deeply satisfying, exciting, and (dare we say it?) fun. Based on four decades of experience...
The Premiers Joey and Frank
Greed, Power, and Lust
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The Premiers Joey and Frank is three stories in one. First is Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood’s, whose ego and force of personality dominated every room he walked into, and strained to the breaking point every personal relationship he had. The latter half of the book covers Premier Frank Moores...
by Bill Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Warning: Graphic Content and Mature Subject Matter Rosie O’Dell is a creature of beauty, brilliance . . . and unspeakable secrets. When she was young, terrible crimes had been committed against her. Tom Sharpe became Rosie O’Dell’s high school sweetheart, and in revenge for the transgressions...
Lou
Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In this candid, revealing, and entertaining memoir, the beloved New York Yankee legend looks back over his nearly fifty-year career as a player and a manager, sharing insights and stories about some of his most memorable moments and some of the biggest names in Major League Baseball.
For nearly...
I'll Never Forget My First Car
Stories from Behind the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
In this hilarious collection of stories, Old Autos columnist Bill Sherk describes in vivid detail the trials and tribulations of those brave souls who, throwing caution to the wind and money down the drain, made the fateful decision that would forever change the course of their lives. They went out...
Odd Man Rush
A Harvard Kid?s Hockey Odyssey from Central Park to Somewhere in Sweden?with Stops along the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In his hilarious, gritty, and touching debut, Bill Keenan-a hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHL-tells of how he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption in the strange world of European minor-league professional hockey.
Keenan’s hockey obsession begins as a...
Red Sox by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They all wore #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players. Red Sox by the Numbers tells the story of every Red Sox player since '31-from Bill Sweeney...