Roy Alexander: 9 books
by Michael Dobson, Roy Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In this instructive guide to time management, author Michael Dobson provides tips, techniques, and commonsense advice that will give anyone better agency over his or her time and significantly increase productivity. Real-World Time Management does this by offering readers valuable tips on how to:...
by Roy Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Cruise of the Raider “Wolf” is not intended as another war book; it is the story of one of the strangest and greatest sea adventures of modern times.
The Wolf has become a legendary figure—a name connected with strange happenings at sea; but to most people it is only a name. The actual...
Rice to Ruin
The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation....
The Driver
My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The riveting memoir of a life lived at the right-hand edge of the speedometer.
Alex Roy's father, while on his deathbed, hints about the notorious, utterly illegal cross-country drive from Los Angeles to New York of the 1970s, which then inspired his young son to enter the mysterious world...
The US Senate and the Commonwealth
Kentucky Lawmakers and the Evolution of Legislative Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Kentucky has long punched above its weight in the US Senate, as some of the nation's most distinguished senators have hailed from the Commonwealth. Despite its relatively small population for much of American history, Kentucky has produced a record two Senate majority leaders, a record three Senate...
by Alexander Chaitoff, Dheeraj Duggineni, Sejal Hathi
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Now, more than ever, the complexity and interconnectedness of the world’s challenges demand that we embolden young, capable, and inspired service leaders to conceive of novel ways to address them. Many young people express an interest in social issues, yet while thousands enter college each year...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Water and Environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin
International Research Cooperation for an Ecoregion of Global Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...