Cheney: 130 books
Heart
An American Medical Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.
For as long...
In My Time
A Personal and Political Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In this eagerly anticipated memoir, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers an unyielding portrait of American politics over nearly forty years and shares personal reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.
The public perception...
Blue Skies, No Fences
A Memoir of Childhood and Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at...
A Cheney Sampler
Excerpts from Books by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from: -- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America -- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil -- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something -- Passion in an Improper Place -- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost nation of fugitive slaves
-- Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis
Tesla
Man Out of Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and inventors.
In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient...
Now It's My Turn
A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Who is Mary Cheney?
In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life,...
Journey on the Estrada Real:
Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Brazil's Estrada Real — the Royal Road — was constructed in 1697 to bring the gold and diamonds from the mountains of Minas Gerais to ports at Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, winding through the mountains, passing through villages and towns once opulent, now in decadence....
Exceptional
Why the World Needs a Powerful America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A new book by former Vice President and #1 New York Times bestselling author Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney.
Penelope Down East
Cruising Adventures in an Engineless Catboat Along the World's Most Beautiful Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
Penelope Down East is a collection of stories about sailing the Maine coast in a small catboat with no engine. This is cruising the way it was done a hundred years ago—and it takes a high level of seamanship to get anywhere. If the wind or the tide is against you, you must adapt, change plans, tack...
English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
Fictions of Transport in Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters...
by Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
How human language evolved from the need for social communication
The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as...
by Patrick Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light...
Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of dead prez, and Wise...
Crying for Our Elders
African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney...