Douglas R: 183 books

"Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.†? -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil...

Der Sammelband SCIENCE-FICTION-SOMMER 2018 beinhaltet auf über 1000 Seiten vier Romane und acht Erzählungen internationaler Spitzen-Autoren wie Douglas R. Mason, James E. Gunn, A. E. Van Vogt, James White, Roger Dee, Gordon R. Dickson, Brian W. Aldiss, John Rackham, Colin Kapp, Michael Moorcock...

Dr. Mark Brant arbeitet als Wissenschaftler auf einem außerirdischen Planeten. Der terrestrische Geheimdienst zwingt ihn, für Terra auf dem Planeten Lados zu spionieren. Ein Auftrag, der zum Scheitern verurteilt scheint, denn auf Lados hat man einen Apparat erfunden, der sämtliche Gehirnvorgänge...

Unzählige Vorstöße waren in die Unendlichkeit des Raumes unternommen worden. Raumschiffe hatten die Galaxis durchmessen und vielfältige Daten zur Erde gefunkt. Dann begann der große Rückmarsch. Die Schiffe kehrten nach und nach zur Erde zurück, und nur die CENTAUR blieb als letzter Vorposten...

Say good-bye to expensive brokers! Forget gambling on their latest "hot stock," or their junk-bond or high-cost mutual funds recommendations. The results can be disastrous. Instead, veteran Wall Street Journal editor and CNBC commentator Douglas R. Sease shows you how to take back control...

Most of us dream of becoming wealthy. While some take steps to achieve it, few realize the goal. Why? According to financial planner Douglas R. Andrew, flawed financial strategis - or what he calls "money myth-conceptions" - lead us down the wrong road. In his revolutionary financial guide,...

Most people know that there are 70 million Baby Boomers in America today....but what is less known is that there are approximately 100 million people in America between the ages of 16 and 30. This generation has just entered, or will soon be entering the work force. And they have no idea how to invest,...

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...

On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. During his long, extraordinary life Vesey played many roles—Caribbean field hand, cabin boy, chandler's man, house servant, proud freeman, carpenter, husband,...

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations,...

Travel back to the 1960s and walk the halls of Chicagos Cook County Hospital with Douglas R. Gracey, a medical intern eager to learn the ways of medicine, help patients and impress his colleagues. Back then, medical education was different. Diagnosis was not so certain, treatment options were...

We've been hearing the same advice on managing your moeny for years - always prepay your mortgage. Always invest in a 401(k). Defer your taxes for as long as possible. What if someone told you that following that advice would be a waste of your money? In his groundbreaking book on personal...

Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate...

In 1760, General Jeffery Amherst led the British campaign that captured Montreal and began the end of French colonial rule in North America. All Canada in the Hands of the British is a detailed account of Amherst’s successful military strategy and soldiers’ experiences on both sides. Newly...