Grant: 2643 books
The Forgotten Depression
1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).
In...
The Complete History of the Civil War (Including Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders)
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Complete History of the Civil War" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This meticulously edited collection contains a Pulitzer Prize awarded History of Civil War, as well as the memoirs of the two most...
The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle
Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle collects five titles that illuminate that transformative...
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his *Personal Memoirs *to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose,...
by Stan Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity.
When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country’s flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed...
by Kevin Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
If you're like most people then you live your life with no real understanding of the political game in which you're one of the pieces being played. But have no fear. As with any other game, there are explicit strategic and tactical considerations whose mastery will improve your understanding...
Selling Art without Galleries
Toward Making a Living from Your Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
“Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art market.” —Sculpture Magazine
The days in which artists must get their work into galleries in order to gain success and recognition are long over....
Forces for Good
The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last....
A History of the Mahrattas
In Three Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
A History of the Mahrattas: In Three Volumes by James Grant Duff.
The want of a complete history of the rise, progress, and decline of our immediate predecessors in conquest, the Mahrattas, has been long felt by all persons conversant with the affairs of India; in so much, that it is very generally...
Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories
From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
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'Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson's greatest legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of post-war Britain that chronicles the end of deference and secrecy, and the advent of a more...
by David Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A unique ‘backstory’ of Alexander and his successors: the biased historians, deceits, wars, generals, and the tale of the literature that preserved them. ‘Babylon, mid-June 323 BCE, the gateway of the gods; prostrated in the Summer Palace of Nebuchadrezzar II on the east bank of the Euphrates,...
by Patrick Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
“…aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection.” It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for justice, drive us...
Man on Fire
A Stunt of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
If you've watched an Australian film, TV show or ad during the past fifty years, chances are you've seen stuntman Grant Page - falling from the sky, jumping off cliffs, crashing motorbikes, rolling cars, hang-gliding over skyscrapers, or setting himself on fire. He's fearless, forensic and there's...
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This file includes: An African Millionaire, The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories, Biographies of Working Men, The British Barbarians, Charles Darwin, Early Britain, Falling In Love, The Great Taboo, Hilda Wade, Michael's Crag, Miss Cayley's Adventures, Philistia, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Recalled to...