Richard: 17762 books
The Last of the Doughboys
The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
“Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who...
1865
America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...
The North West Passage Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Explorers of the North-West Passage
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt.
This book charts the full history of the exploration...
Fly!
Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In 2010, thousands of feet in the air above Singapore, the 469 passengers aboard QF32 found themselves in a crisis that no one could have anticipated when the A380 in which they were flying suffered a catastrophic explosion.
Captain Richard de Crespigny and his crew confronted extraordinary...
by Carl J. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...
Immortal Diamond
The Search for Our True Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Dissolve the distractions of ego to find our authentic selves in God
In his bestselling book Falling Upward, Richard Rohr talked about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found?...
My Life on the Mississippi
or Why I am Not Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
“Because I myself write books about the Mississippi River, because I used to be a pilot on the Mississippi River . . . the critics for twenty-three years have been calling me ‘a modern Mark Twain.’ Now is this fair?”
So begins a skillful, and frequently hilarious, comparison...
by Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Richard Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Here is a selection of 18 jaunts through time, many of them rare tales from the pulps that we know you haven’t read before. Even if you're jaded with time-travel (Dinosaurs? Again?) you'll find something new in these pages. Included are:
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM, by Raymond F. Jones
SIDETRACK...
by Richard Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print along with two recent interviews,...
Hatchet Men
The Story of the Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Richard Dillon, one of California’s premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco’s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon’s fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with...
President Nixon
Alone in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president. In President Nixon, Richard Reeves has used thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes -- including Nixon's tortured memos to himself...
by Richard Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard Dutton argues that many, perhaps most, of Shakespeare's plays have survived in versions adapted for court...
The Day That Went Missing
A Family's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
"Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving"-- an unflinching portrait of a family's silent grief, and the tragic death of a brother not spoken about for forty years (Joanna Rakoff).
On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping...
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
What fictional detective survived an attempted murder by his creator? (Sherlock Holmes)
Who was the single mother, living on state benefits, whose wizardly series of novels has made her the richest writer in England? (J. K. Rowling)
Which American poet composed and read a poem at John F. Kennedy's...