Robert C Williams: 27 books
Horace Greeley
Champion of American Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city’s ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune...
The Historian's Toolbox
A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Written in an engaging and entertaining style, this widely-used how-to guide introduces readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of tools to help them research and understand the past.
Part I is a stimulating, philosophical introduction to the key elements...
by Robert C. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Written in and engaging and entertaining style, this popular "how-to" guide introduces readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of "tools" to help them research and understand the past. This edition includes new chapters on the use of geographic information systems and...
The Forensic Historian
Using Science to Reexamine the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Modern forensic science has significantly affected historical debate over some well-known past crimes or mysteries, utilizing modern DNA, nuclear, and chemical analyses to reexamine the past. This book takes an in-depth look at 20 significant cases where investigators have applied new forensic techniques...
by Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Frank Belknap Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
by Robert JP Williams, Blanca Barquera, Jacqui Gulbis
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Metal ions play key roles in biology. Many are essential for catalysis, for electron transfer and for the fixation, sensing, and metabolism of gases. Others compete with those essential metal ions or have toxic or pharmacological effects.
This book is structured around the periodic table and...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
Courting Justice
Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world. Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies.
Paul...
by Paul Gilroy, Bernard Boxill, Margaret Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington,...
Principles of Toxicology
Environmental and Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling guide on toxicology and its practical application
• Covers the diverse chemical hazards encountered in the modern work and natural environment, and provides a practical understanding of these hazards
• New chapters cover the emerging areas...
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine
Issue #7
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2019
The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction
A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude,...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
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