Roger: 3830 books
Killing Hitler
The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of...
The Benghazi Report
Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
On September 11, 2012, a squad of armed militants in Libya attacked the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, killing U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other American diplomats. Although the vicious attack was initially reported as a protest against an anti-Islamic video, later evidence...
Rickey & Robinson
The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer...
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
On February 12, 1884--when Roosevelt was building a career as New
York State's most promising young politician--his wife gave birth to
their first child, Alice. Two days later, both his wife and his mother
died in the same house on Valentine's Day. Grief stricken--and driven by
doubts about his career...
by Roger A. Marin
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
This is a true, almost unbelievable story, of how our Maine family, over a seven-year period and on a shoestring budget, with a lot of sweat and tenacity, and with what we eventually would have to concede as Divine Intervention, managed to build a beautiful and seaworthy 40-foot sailboat. Then, a...
by Roger D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In his third book singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor ventures to even more remote seas aboard his tiny junk-rigged yacht Mingming. The first voyage, across the North Atlantic to Baffin Island, is curtailed when Taylor is injured in a storm in the Davis Strait. Unwilling to sail on into the ice with...
by Philippe De Vosjoli, Roger J. Klingenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The Box Turtle Manual seeks to help prospective owners keep their turtles healthy and happy.” Given the low price tag placed on a box turtle in a pet shop, many casual shoppers add a box turtle to their household without preparation or knowledge about how to keep the animal alive. Since quality...
Red Rover
Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
For centuries humankind has fantasized about life on Mars, whether it’s intelligent Martian life invading our planet (immortalized in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds) or humanity colonizing Mars (the late Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles). The Red Planet’s proximity and likeness to...
Native Waters
An Indigenous Fly Fisher's Journey Across Time and Water
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Here is a world created by Crawfish at the command of the Creator. Here is that sweet country of the People of the Many Waters, the Chitimacha, in southern Louisiana. Between the gunwales of a small wooden boat a boy learns the things that define a life, but sets out on a voyage of discovery in disdain...
by Roger Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
For the first time...• A book in English about one of Turkey’s most popular writers, Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (1890-1973), known as the Fisherman of Halicarnassus, who founded of the famous Mavi Yolculuk “Blue Voyages” and made the Aegean resort of Bodrum famous.• "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus"...
We Stood Upon Stars
Finding God in Lost Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Get Lost. . . and Find What Really Matters
We are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while knowing there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting...
by Roger White
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
When the Sega Genesis launched in 1989 it was off to a rough start. While the Genesis may have been the first true 16-bit console, its direct competitor, the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, was beating it in the console wars thanks to Nintendo's mega-hit Super Mario Bros. 3.
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by Roger Schlafly
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Einstein is considered the world's greatest genius for creating the theory of relativity. How Einstein Ruined Physics explains relativity, how it was discovered, and how it fits into a long history of trying to understand motion and symmetry. The book shows that Einstein's role is badly misunderstood.
Modern...
Wildwood
A Journey Through Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies...