Boyd: 1234 books
My Times in Black and White
Race and Power at the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period in the paper’s history and records how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the...
Burns Night
A Freestyle Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Planning to party on Burns Night this year? Find out what to expect, or learn something new about Scotland's most celebrated citizen. Sort out your sonsie faces from your chapman billies, get your playlist piping and hae your haggis steamin' with the help of our all new freestyle guide.
Daughters of the KGB
Moscow's Secret Spies, Sleepers and Assassins of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood of "daughter" organizations through which Moscow terrorized the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after World War IIEveryone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about its daughter oganizations. Staffed by...
Agente
Female Secret Agents in World Wars, Cold Wars and Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Mathilde Carré was caught by the Abwehr in occupied France and betrayed everyone in her Resistance network to her new lover. At her trial, she said, "Women do not have the same choices as men." Yet female agents of SOE saved thousands of Allied soldiers' lives. In the Comintern's 70-year...
by Mary Stuart Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
A Crisis of Brilliance
Five Young British Artists and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art, where they...
by Herb Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory of the Pharaohs and Towers of Zimbabwe, the cosmology of the Yoruba, the courage of the Masai and the golden wonders of Mali, the art treasures of the Bushongo and the sophistication of the...
Beyond the Finite
The Sublime in Art and Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims...
De Gaulle
The Man Who Defied Six US Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Containing previously unpublished material from the Paris and Washington archives, an all new, controversial account of France's role post-World War II Throughout D-Day, French soliders were mysteriously absent during the invasion on their own soil. Although General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000...
The Quick-Start Guide to the Whole Bible
Understanding the Big Picture Book-by-Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A Friendly Overview of Every Book of the Bible
Reading the Bible can be intimidating. Made up of sixty-six "books" ranging in subject matter from history to instruction, from poetry to prophecy, this all-time bestseller is frequently misunderstood, even by those who read it regularly.
In...
by James Oscar Boyd, John Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
A Brief Bible History : A Survey of the Old and New Testaments
That drama was a tragedy. It became a tragedy because of man's sin. The wonderful poem of creation in Gen., ch. 1, has for the refrain of its six stanzas, "God saw that it was good." Best of all was man, the last...
by Cleland Boyd McAfee
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
THE lectures included in this volume were prepared at the request of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and were delivered in the early part of 1912, under its auspices. They were suggested by the tercentenary of the King James version of the Bible. The plan adopted led to a restatement of...
Living in Dry Places
Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
God will so tailor the events of our lives so that all roads will lead to Him.What happens is we become so use to depending on our resources until we fail to rely on our source. So what he will do is allow our brooks to run dry in order to refocus our attention back toward Him. He did for Abraham...
Spiritual Terrorism
Spiritual Abuse from the Womb to the Tomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Spiritual Terrorism is about theimpact of fear-based religion on people's lives who have been spiritually abused by a negative conception of God through eternal hell-fire preaching and teaching.The doctrine of eternal punishment in literal fire is at the heart of many forms of spiritual abuse and...