Ellis: 2610 books

Petra K and the Blackhearts take readers to a Prague-like city where miniaturized show-dragons are pitted against each other in secret, forbidden tournaments, and magic has been outlawed by a cruel child dictator. Here lives Petra K, the daughter of a shut-in mother, who becomes the master of a dragonka...

This book presents a major statement on the dominant philosophy of science by one of the world's leading metaphysicians. Brian Ellis's new book develops the metaphysics of scientific realism to the point where it begins to take on the characteristics of a first philosophy. As most people understand...

George Washington gehört zu den großen Gestalten der Weltgeschichte. Er führte als General die Revolutionsarmee zum Sieg und errang so die amerikanische Unabhängigkeit. Als erster amerikanischer Präsident steuerte er die junge Nation durch ihre unsicherste und schwierigste Phase. Joseph J. Ellis...

In "The Philosophy of Nature," Brian Ellis provides a clear and forthright general summation of, and introduction to, the new essentialist position. Although the theory that the laws of nature are immanent in things, rather than imposed on them from without, is an ancient one, much recent...

Dans Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis, enfant terrible des lettres américaines, pense que les madeleines de Proust sont des mandarines, que sa maison d'Elsinore Lane est hantée, que le spectre de son père mort et peut-être aussi Patrick Bateman, le tueur d'American Psycho, que la moquette "...

"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book In The Summer House trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct...

“Top-notch . . . An engrossing account of life in the old British army, the actions of artillerymen in battle and the author’s experiences after capture” (Kirkus Reviews). Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this...

HEADLINE: A nightmare she couldn't escape…TEXT: After getting behind the wheel for a car trip she couldn't remember, Ellis Jones came to her senses at a hospital she wasn't permitted to leave. Stripped of her property, her clothes and her dignity, she spent the next five days at a...

"Charley Ellis has written a magnificent portrait, capturing the indomitable spirit of Joe Wilson and his instinctive understanding of the need for and commercial usefulness of a transforming imaging technology. Joe Wilson and his extraordinary team, which I had the good fortune to first meet...

In Buddy Holly, best-selling biographer Ellis Amburn brings this musical genius, this flamboyant West Texas rebel, back to life. Having interviewed over two hundred people, Ellis Amburn has written the most revealing and definitive biography of Holly's life. The result is a triumphant American work.

National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as...

A colorful, enlightening account of how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the road to July 4: a selection from Joseph J. Ellis’s American Sphinx,winner of the National Book Award.* *    How did the newest and youngest member of Virginia’s delegation to the...

A pyramid rising from the Antarctic ice… A mysterious talisman with the power to command the elements… An occult riddle concealing the secret of immortality… And a diabolical enemy bent on destroying anyone who seeks it. A deadly showdown at the end of the world is...

This entertaining, illustrated, middle grade chapter book is the series opener. Sign up for the spelling bee? No way! If there's one thing 10-year-old Texan Sophie Washington is good at, it's spelling. She's earned straight 100s on all her spelling tests to prove it. Her parents want her to...