George C : 284 books
Methods of Early Golf Architecture
The Selected Writings of C.B. Macdonald, George C. Thomas, Robert Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
"Methods of Early Golf Architecture" features selected writings from premier architects C.B. Macdonald, George C. Thomas, and Robert Hunter. With precision and detail, these visionaries discuss each element of golf course design, and no detail is left untouched.
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by George C. Daughan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley, control of which, both the Americans and the British firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River,...
by George C. Mallinckrodt
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
America is experiencing a mental health crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Fifty years ago, shocking conditions and abuses in psychiatric facilities resulted in nationwide closures with no viable plan to provide care for former and future patients. For the severely mentally ill, ever diminishing funding...
Precious Memories
The Faith-Promoting Series Book 16
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This is the 16th book in the Faith-Promoting Series, and the second volume primarily written by George C. Lambert. Lambert worked closely with George Q. Cannon at Deseret Book, and after Cannon’s death he continued publishing volumes in this series. This book, just like the previous book in the...
The Pony Fish's Glow
And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
We may regard ourselves as the most advanced species on the planet, but have we really reached our optimum design? Isn't there always room for improvements? Before you answer, let noted evolutionary biologist George C. Williams remind you of both the exquisite adaptations and absurd maladaptations...
The American Century and Beyond
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of...
The American Disease
Why the American economic system is faltering . . . and how the trend can be changed with a minimum of crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this provocative study of the "disease" afflicting American industry today, George Lodge, a distinguished professor at the Harvard Business School, reveals the malady as a psychological disorder, characterized by a refusal to face the facts of interdependence in a competitive world; by...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Air War in the Pacific (Annotated)
The Journal of General George Kenney, Commander of the Fifth U.S. Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Air War in the Pacific details the development and ultimate supremacy of the US Air Force during World War 2. Written from the perspective of General George C. Kenney, the man in charge, the book is a candid insider’s account of how America turned the tables on the Japanese in the Pacific through...
by George C. Chesbro
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A circus-performer-turned-PI takes on “murder and intrigue from New York to Iran” in this “well done, suspenseful” unconventional mystery (Newsday).
With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better...
From Colony to Superpower:U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned...
The Shining Sea
David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American navy, cemented...
God's Almost Chosen Peoples
A Religious History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers...
If By Sea
The Forging of the American Navy--from the Revolution to the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed...