Roy: 2801 books

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative...

"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed...

THE GREAT MARVEL ADVENTURES SERIES follows young Jack and Sam, two inventive boys whose curiosity and pluck lead them on adventures to the North and South poles, to the center of the Earth, to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. • Through the Air to the North Pole • Under the Ocean to the South...

The struggle of British, Commonwealth and American-Chinese troops against the Japanese in Burma was one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War. British India was threatened by the Japanese advance, the fate of the British Empire in the East hung in the balance. The tropical climate –...

Roy Bedichek spent most of his life working in the educational field in Texas, but his main interest was always the great outdoors. His first book, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, was published when he was almost seventy, and his second, Karánkaway Country, appeared three years later. Both were...

This rare book by John Roy Carlson gives an unconventional and detailed account of the war for Israel's independence. Carlson daringly goes undercover on all sides, and therefore provides a unique and captivating account of events. This book is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject.

TerrorismSame-Sex MarriageDebt CancellationThe AIDS Pandemic These are just some of the critical contemporary issues addressed in this book. Issues Facing Christians Today helps thinking Christians sift through and respond to a sweeping array of complex and pressing topics. Thoroughly revised and...

By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to...

In industrialized societies the needs of people living in remote and sparsely populated areas are easily overlooked, whilst in developing countries the needs of the rural population are at once so obvious and so enormous that our practical concern is blunted. In this volume it is clearly demonstrated...

Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S. A. Roy, Esq., and Edited, with an Introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley. Originally bound together with 49b but separately paginated. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.

Roy Nesbit brings to bear all the insight gained from his flying experience and his skill as a aviation historian as he investigates the wartime disappearances he describes in this haunting book. In vivid detail he retells the stories of two of the best-known disappearances – the pioneering aviator...

The President of the United States is dying; there is no Vice President. The nation is under threat. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary actions. But what is constitutional? That is the argument!

Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.

     Over one hundred short stories sure to make you laugh out loud, choke on your food, wet your pants and spill your beer on your school books. What life was really like growing up on a small farm in the Rocky Mountains. Shocking and crazy stories that will take you right back...