Richard M : 631 books
Christopher Robin Songbook
Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
(Piano Solo Songbook). 9 selections from the soundtrack to this 2018 live action/CGI fantasy film based on the Winnie the Pooh book by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard are presented in this folio for piano solo. Includes 3 songs penned by Richard M. Sherman: Busy Doing Nothing * Christopher Robin * and...
by Richard M. Ketchum
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
"The finest historian of the American Revolution." Douglas Brinkley. For all his fame and familiarity, George Washington remains something of an enigma - the stiff portrait on the dollar bill. But his story is full of drama. Here, acclaimed historian Richard Ketchum brings America's first president’s life to vivid life.
Understanding and Using C Pointers
Core Techniques for Memory Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Improve your programming through a solid understanding of C pointers and memory management. With this practical book, you’ll learn how pointers provide the mechanism to dynamically manipulate memory, enhance support for data structures, and enable access to hardware. Author Richard Reese shows you...
by Richard M. Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed into the circus train. In the...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
Freedom for Themselves
North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers...
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
How God Became God
What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly...
by Richard M. Valelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the...
Republic Studios
Beyond Poverty Row and the Majors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
The Hollywood studios of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were rarely concerned with film as an art form; this was especially true of those specializing in the B film. Of these, Republic Pictures Corporation was the finest. Their quality B action pictures and serials influenced the industry and the moviegoing...
The Good Teen
Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
For many parents the thought of the teen years holds more dread than all the sleepless nights of infancy and scraped knees of childhood combined. After all, teens are obstinate, inconsiderate, and defiant; they sulk and stress; they are prone to bad decisions and unreasonable behavior.
Given...
Know Your Rights!
Answers to Texans' Everyday Legal Questions
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Richard Alderman, "The People's Lawyer," cuts through the jargon of the "legalese" and helps you protect yourself, your family, and your property. This book gives you practical, easy-to-understand answers to all kinds of everyday questions about divorce, child support, credit, bankruptcy, leases and...
by Richard S. Kirkendall, Roger Daniels, Athan G. Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
President Harry Truman identified himself repeatedly as a champion of civil liberties in the American system of government. Although the pursuit of peace topped his agenda, Communist containment and civil liberties were, in his mind, closely linked. The American Constitution's Bill of Rights was a...
How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream
Why We're Paying More and Getting Less in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1993
This book is a "must read" for every parent who has ever signed a check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all the distinguished professors are hiding, and everyone else who has ever questioned what faculty do with themselves all day.
In this lucid and engaging account,...