John Stephens: 49 books
by Rebecca L. Brown, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, M. Pax
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
They roll in from unknown places, mysterious and unexplained. They take root, take over, spread to all corners and refuse to be eradicated. No one can say why they came, but there's no arguing that they're up to no good. These plants are out for blood, and getting rid of them will take a certain kind...
Improving your C# Skills
Solve modern challenges with functional programming and test-driven techniques of C#
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Conquer complex and interesting programming challenges by building robust and concurrent applications with caches, cryptography, and parallel programming.
Key Features
Understand how to use .NET frameworks like the Task Parallel Library (TPL)and CryptoAPI
Develop a containerized application based...
First Came Fear
New Takes of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Emerging as the dark side of Romanticism, horror is one of literature’s oldest genres. Its history is so diverse it’s sometimes difficult to define. Are moody stories about ghosts and vampires related to gory tales of beasts and zombies? And what about the more realistic terrors of murderous rogues...
Kitty Literature
An Illustrated Collection for Cat Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the...
by Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...
The Wild, Wild West
Thrilling Tales by Famous Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A town that had a man for breakfast every morning.
That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't...
by Jolanta Artiz, Robyn C. Walker, Donald L. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather...
Wildest Lives of the Frontier
America through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of...
Commanding the Storm
Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies. They...
Gold
Firsthand Accounts from the Rush That Made the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts...
Wildest Lives of the Wild West
America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of...
by John Lloyd Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
On the evening of the —— February, 1835, by a bright starlight, after a short ramble among the Ionian Islands, I sailed from Zante in a beautiful cutter of about forty tons for Padras. My companions were Doctor W., an old and valued friend from New-York, who was going to Greece merely to visit...
by John Lloyd Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The reader of my "Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan," may remember that the researches of Mr. Catherwood and myself in the last-mentioned country were abruptly terminated by the illness of the former. During our short sojourn in Yucatan, we received vague, but, at the same...
by John L. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Few explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But Stephen's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In this work, and in his other masterpiece Incidents...