C Lewis: 246 books

From the series "Masterpieces in Color", with 10 illustrations. Biography of the 18th century artist, who was a relative of the businessman and politician Mitt Romney. According to Wikipedia: "George Romney (26 December 1734 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable...

Jim Bowie, the descendant of Highland Scots, grew up riding alligators and working the field on the Texas frontier. Taught three languages and a sense of honor, he went on to live a life filled with brawls and battles, loves and loses. This is his story, as told by those who, whether they loved or...

Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's hard to escape it. So when a group of men shows up at her house uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs. That is, until shots...

Dysfunction: Identify it. Discover the truth you’ve been hiding from yourself, probably most of your life. Own it. Admit your part in the problems that are holding you back from your goals. Eliminate it. Free yourself from your self-destructive past with innovative techniques that will change your life.  

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...

This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international coverage, it reveals the limits of current anti-corruption strategies and explores the involvement of western democratic states in corruption.

Excerpt: "Leonardo Da Vinci found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. The use of pen and crayon came to him as naturally as the monologue to an eager and egoistic talker. The outline designs in his " Treatise on Painting" aid and amplify the text with...

Toasts for All Occasions is a great collection of toasts first published in 1903.

And this be our motto In God is our trust. America exits the War of 1812 battered but determined under the leadership of the last men tutored by the Founding Fathers. As she is welcomed onto the world stage, new leaders prepare to thrust an aggressive platform on the nation, threatening America's unity...

Throughout the world, from the United States to Tanzania, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, people increasingly work together and take actions to improve their lives, end inequality, and change global society. Action groups and movements see dialogue and learning as important ways to extend democracy and,...

With its flexibility for programming both small and large projects, Scala is an ideal language for teaching beginning programming. Yet there are no textbooks on Scala currently available for the CS1/CS2 levels. Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala presents many concepts from CS1 and CS2 using a modern, JVM-based language that works we

While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a “collective political identity” is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the...

Three young adults whose early years were blighted by World War Two cross paths in Paris in the early 1960s in the final months of Algeria's war for independence against France. They settle into a blissfully dissolute life on the Left Bank but the first is drawn into a deadly confrontation with a violent...

The Lords Day (First Day Sabbath), is a comprehensive study containing detailed biblical evidence supporting the New Testaments account regarding the changing of the 7th day Sabbath to the 1st day of the week. The book is easy to read, and filled with hundreds of Biblical passages that are written...