Eugene: 1115 books
Essays in Definition
One Man’S Search for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This is a compilation of essays born of varying impetuses and written over a number of years on the general topic of metaphor, my life obsession since my spring semester at Berry College in 1953. The generalized purpose of the following documents is to trace the path of metaphor as my thinking evolved....
Florentine Art under Fire
The True Story of a Monuments Man — Rescuing the Art of Florence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Florentine Art Under Fire, originally published in 1949 by Princeton University Press, is an extraordinary factual true story. It is an inspiring, poignant, and tragic recounting of the years that Lieutenant Frederick Hartt spent in Italy recovering and restoring works of the treasured art stolen...
We Survived Sexual Abuse! You Can Too!
Personal Stories of Sexual Abuse Survivors with Information about Sexual Abuse Prevention, Effects, and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In We Survived Sexual Abuse! You Can Too! Pamela K. Orgeron, the editor, a Board Certified Christian Counselor, an Advanced Christian Life Coach, and a survivor of past sexual abuse combines her educational and life experiences to compile a book that will be helpful to others struggling with...
K'Oben
3,000 Years of the Maya Hearth
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it was cooked, but the people involved: who...
by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by B. Eugene Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2002
In Periwinkle Lies, a young executive on assignment at an exclusive resort is drawn into a lethal game of deception when he helps a beautiful and mysterious woman who claims to be in search of her past. Periwinkle Lies is a tale of secrets, lies, murder and intrigue as Jim Kirkwood, a self-indulgent,...
by Eugene St. Martin Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
This book is a persons journey to discern what Christmas is about. Every year at Christmas time the groundskeeper E.C. feels the pressure of Christmas. And each year he does what he can to step back and see what Christmas is really all about and what does it mean in his life. Each year he writes a...
by H. Eugene Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
This book, Lives of Reigning and Consort Queens of England: England’s History through the Eyes of its Queens, is a factual narrative on lives of Norman, Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, and Windsorqueens covering a millenium of English History. The biographical portraits start at the close of...
by Eugene Woodbury
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
In this largely autobiographical account of the author's two-year proselyting mission to Japan during the late 1970s, a Mormon missionary confronts an overzealous religious bureaucracy and his own growing doubts as the work of preaching the gospel is turned into a cynical game of numbers and spiritual one-upmanship.
Philip Reid After Slavery
The Ex-Slave Who Put Freedom Atop the Capitol Faces Uncertainty in Carving a New Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Philip Reid grew up in slavery near Charleston, South Carolina, where he became a skilled foundry craftsman. He was purchased by Clark Mills, who owned the Clark Mills Foundry of Washington, D.C. Clark Mills received a U.S. Government contract to cast the Statue of Freedom to stand atop the Capitol Dome...
Iron Ikon
U.S. Foreign Commercial Office Duty in the Russian Far East
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Enforcer is for espionage. Dane Nelson is for diplomat. Are the two compatible? A US Foreign Commerical Officer assigned to a new position in the remote Russian Far East must face immense obstacles and challenges including the KGB reformed into the Ministry of Security, the internal security apparatus,...