Douglas Anderson: 29 books
Representing
Reminiscences; Humorous and Otherwise, of an Alaska Based Company Service Representative
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Douglas Anderson, the author, was born in Derbyshire, England. After his father passed away, Douglas went to live on his Grandfather's farm. Never very interested in animal husbandry, he leaned more toward the mechanical aspects of farming: maintaining and operating machinery. After an apprenticeship...
by Douglas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir—a model of the genre—in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson’s study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative...
Reggie The Rocket
What Goes Up Usually Comes Back Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The story of Reggie The Rocket closely tracks the history of the 1960s British Blue Streak rocket program. The author Douglas Anderson worked on the assembly and testing of the Rolls-Royce RZ2 engines powering the Blue Streak and was present in Woomera, Australia, for the launch of F3. Based on that...
by Prof. Douglas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end of Twain's life, with the long dialogue What Is Man? that Twain published anonymously in 1906. In Twain's...
Gold in Trib 1
Flying, Hiking and Gold Prospecting - Adventure in Wild Present-Day Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Gold in Trib 1 is an account of a flying, hiking, and gold prospecting adventure in wild, present-day Alaska. It is the story of the exploits of two good friends and their adventures while prospecting for gold. It is a factual account where possible and where not factual, it is the way they would have...
by Douglas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
ILLUMINATIVE/INTERPRETIVE/IMAGINATIVE THE WORLD IS CHANGING AT SUCH A RAPID PACE THAT IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO KEEP ABREAST OF ALL THAT IS OCCURING ON THIS CELESTIAL GLOBE. IT IS TIME TO DIFFERENCIATE BETWEEN THE IMPORTANT AND THE UNIMPORTANT. RELATIONSHIPS ARE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE....
Lost in a Foreign Land
A tale of survival and intrigue in Alaska and the Yukon during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The war in the Pacific is raging, the rudimentary Alaska-Canada military road is completed, and vast quantities of supplies are being moved northwest to deter a Japanese invasion of Alaska. Shinichi Oda, a pilot of the Japanese Imperial Navy, is launched on a daring mission to disrupt these shipments...
by Douglas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Children are born with inquisitive minds; like a spongue they take in anything and everything that surrounds them. indiscriminately they see it all as personal instructors, and people are viewed as parental guides.Walk through these pasges with an open mind, looking for motivational and somewhat hidden...
My Adventurous Friend
A Lifetime of Choices and Outdoor Alaska Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
My Adventurous Friend is based on accounts of my friend Hagen's life, as he related it to me, and of the adventures we enjoyed together in Alaska. We would reminisce while sitting around a campfire in some wilderness area during our hikes and gold prospecting ventures. We could be debating current events...
Mystery in Trib 2
Alaska hiking, flying, and gold mining adventure interwoven with a World War II mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
As a sequel to Gold in Trib 1, Doug's new book, Mystery in Trib 2 is an interesting blend of fact and fiction; factual in terms of the flying, hiking, and gold-mining two friends enjoyed; fictional in the form of a cleverly woven mystery concerning the loss of a World War II military aircraft. The story...
by Douglas A. Anderson, Ludwig Tieck, George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself? Here, internationally recognized Tolkien expert...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
by Annie Roe Carr, Alice Duer Miller, Berthold Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...