Eugene: 1115 books
Dead Men Ruling
How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The news coming out of Washington, D.C., and reverberating around the nation increasingly sounds like a broken record: low or zero growth in employment, inadequate funds to pay future Social Security and Medicare obligations, declining rates of investment, cuts in funding for education and children’s...
Buying Military Transformation
Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys...
The American Way of War
Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight, launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted...
by Francois Coppee, Honore De Balzac, Paul Bourget
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Contents
A Piece of Bread By Francois Coppee The Elixir of Life By Honore De Balzac The Age For Love By Paul Bourget Mateo Falcone By Prosper Merimee The Mirror By Catulle Mendes My Nephew Joseph By Ludovic Halevy A Forest Betrothal By Erckmann-chatrian Zadig the Babylonian By Francois Marie...
by Eugene Salomon
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir. Eugene has had everyone in the back of his cab: Lauren Bacall, Leonardo di Caprio, John McEnroe, Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper, Simon and Garfunkel,...
Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee
The Complete Winter Guide to Their Identification and Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
For centuries people have used trees, shrubs, and woody vines for food, clothing, ritual, construction, scientific study, and more. However, these important plants are easy to overlook during the winter months, when the absence of leaves, fruit, and other distinguishing characteristics makes them...
The State of Our Disunion
The Obama Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the separation of powers is that the absence of a spirit of compromise can lead to the disintegration of the union. Eugene Good heart...
Hall Johnson
His Life, His Spirit, and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
During his lifetime (1888-1970), Hall Johnson's concert arrangements of spirituals have been performed and recorded by stellar singers, such as Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and Denyce Graves, and were sung by school and concert choirs all over the world. The Hall...
Show Them No Mercy
4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A discussion of various contemporary evangelical views of genocide in the Old Testament. Christians are often shocked to read that Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, commanded the total destruction—all men, women, and children—of the ethnic group know as the Canaanites. This seems to contradict...
A Touch of the Sacred
A Theologian's Informal Guide to Jewish Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Our faith in God and our love of Judaism are tested daily by our turbulent world and personal challenges. In this special book, Dr. Eugene Borowitz, the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, offers a highly accessible guide to the questions we’ve all wrestled with in our spiritual lives. In these...
Thanksgiving Story Book
Classic Holiday Tales for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully edited collection of the greatest tales of Thanksgiving is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot) An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)...
But Then My Voice Changed
From Fundamentalist to Nonbeliever: One Man’S Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
From revival meetings held in abandoned storefronts to seminars conducted in university halls, author R. Eugene Bales stumbled his way from youth as a fledgling fundamentalist preacher to adulthood as a nonbelieving academic.
Through a series of essays, he chronicles his spiritual journey that...
The Pastor
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions, Peterson challenges...
On these Promising Shores of the Pacific
A History of Saint Mary's College
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The original fog-soaked Saint Mary's College campus in San Francisco enrolled both boys and young men and was born in 1863 from the educational vision of Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany. In 1889, the campus moved to Oakland and was affectionately dubbed the "Old Brickpile." Through fires, earthquakes,...