Christopher: 7927 books
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are among the best-known stories in the world, but they are often relegated to the realm of legend. However, Arthur was a man, not a myth. In this book, acclaimed historian Christopher Hibbert vividly brings to life the sixth-century British monarch and his extraordinary court.
by Christopher Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from...
by J. Christopher Herold
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
In Napoleon, National Book Award winner J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of a legendary leader who changed the world in every aspect - political, cultural, military, and commercial. Napoleon Bonaparte's rise from common origins to the pinnacle of power, as well as his defeat at Waterloo,...
Our Man in Charleston
Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation.
When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but...
by Christopher Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
"A thoughtful and sophisticated account of a notoriously complicated and controversial period." —R. I. Moore, Times Literary Supplement
History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed...
A Summer of Hummingbirds
Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
**The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. **
At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher...
Escape from Bellevue
A Memoir of Rock 'n' Roll, Recovery, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Read Christopher John Campion's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion-one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward-recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety
Chronicling more than...
A Study of George Orwell
The Man and His Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
An examination of Orwell’s life and body of work, by a fellow author who knew him personally.
Christopher Hollis knew Eric Blair—who would eventually become known to the world as George Orwell—during his schooldays at Eton, afterward in Burma, and at the end of his life. Here, Hollis...
Liberation
Diaries: 1970-1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's...
Introducing Slavoj Zizek
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.
Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature,...
by Christopher G. Moore, John Burdett, Mike Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Author: John Burdett, Mike Lawson, John Lantigua, Gary Phillips, Ernesto Mallo, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Matt Rees, Christopher G. Moore, Colin Cotterill, Barbara Nadel, Quentin Bates, George Fetherling
Twelve authors have banded together under the Orwell banner: “In a time of universal deceit,...
Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years,...
Arrow to the Heart
The Last Battle at the Little Big Horn: The Custer Battlefield Museum vs. The Federal Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In the spring of 2005 a federally orchestrated raid took place at the small Montana town of Garryowen. Christopher Kortlander, the private owner of Garryowen and the focus of the raid, was suspected of selling valuable historical artifacts with false provenance.
Kortlander vigorously fought...
by Dr. Christopher Handy, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In President Barack Obama, Americans have a charismatic leader with a good and honest heart. President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. His story is the American story, values from the heartland,...