Richard: 17762 books
Sidetracks
Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces*,* the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious art of biography.
When researching, Richard Holmes has often become captivated by figures peripheral to his main subject,...
by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our...
And the Wind Blew Cold
The Story of an American POW in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along...
Beleaguered Winchester
A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including...
The Coming of Armageddon
History's Longest Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The name "Armageddon" originates in the Biblical "Book of Revelations" (16:16). For nearly 2000 years scholars were unable to agree about what it means. That has now changed. Recently the world entered a time of crisis with the global order disrupted by dangerous, financial speculation; the spread of...
Tilting at Windmills
School Reform, San Diego, and America’s Race to Renew Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A book that draws equally on Richard Lee Colvin’s deep acquaintance with contemporary education reform and the unique circumstances of the San Diego experience, Tilting at Windmills is a penetrating and invaluable account of Alan Bersin’s contentious superintendency.
Between 1998, when...
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
Motorcycling in the 1970s The story of biking's biggest, brightest and best ever decade Volume 2:
Funky Motorcycling! Biking in the 1970s - Part One
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
'Motorcycling in the 1970s. The story of motorcycling's biggest, brightest and best ever decade' Volumes One to Five by Richard Skelton, author of Funky Mopeds.
'Motorcycling in the 1970s' is a series of five books about motorcycling. The books are designed to be read together, but can also...
Motorcycling in the 1970s The story of biking's biggest, brightest and best ever decade Volume 4:
Funky Motorcycling! Biking in the 1970s - Part Three
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
'Motorcycling in the 1970s. The story of motorcycling's biggest, brightest and best ever decade' Volumes One to Five by Richard Skelton, author of Funky Mopeds.
'Motorcycling in the 1970s' is a series of five books about motorcycling. The books are designed to be read together, but can also...
The Story of My Heart
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
First published in 1883, “The Story of My Heart” is a book by English nature writer Richard Jefferies. It is often described as a “spiritual autobiography”, within which Jefferies envisions the English countryside as a utopia.
The foundation of his narrative is his experience of nature,...
by J. Richard Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
EVER BEEN DUMPED!?!
After being brutally ditched by his girlfriend, high school senior Seth decides to win back ex Lysandra by reinventing himself into the man he has always wanted to be by fulfilling his childhood dreams and wishes. With the assistance of his, well, quirky best friend Russ and his...
The Other Great Depression
How I'm overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and disfunctions and finding a s
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
At the age of 44, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER, toxic with alcohol, and hallucinating from excess cocaine use. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and inspired his best material had, it seemed, turned on...
by Richard Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Das Rheingold , WWV 86A, is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). It was first written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas. Die Walküre...
Iron Dawn
The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“An utterly absorbing account of one of history’s most momentous battles” (Forbes) that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power—from acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review).
No single...