Thompson: 3849 books
Memoirs of Ken Thompson
A Wwii Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
This book is a recounting of some of the experiences I had while serving in the Army and Army Air Corps during WWII. The events are as accurate as I could recall without embellishment. I took the pictures of Don Lawless and Gene Van Houten in Don Woerpel's book , The 79th Fighter Group.
The United States Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume....
To Hellholes and Back
Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World
In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of the...
Screwjack
A Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2000
An almost unnaturally poignant love story from the father of “Gonzo” journalism and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson.
What makes the romantic short story Screwjack so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden:...
The Haircutter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
“A wild story of love, obsession, and art . . . told with deft comedic confidence. It’s unforgettable!” —Eileen Curtright, author of The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska
Born in the small town of Ten Sleep, Wyoming, The Haircutter—or H.C.—murders an enigmatic “Jenny” and flees...
Global Wallace
David Foster Wallace and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and...
De zes freules
de geschiedenis van de zussen Mitford, een buitengewone familiekroniek
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 15, 2017
‘De zes freules’ van Laura Thompson is het verhaal van de zussen Mitford, zes dochters uit een oude Engelse adellijke familie. Ze schitterden op de debutantenbals in het interbellum. Allemaal waren ze voorbestemd om een goed huwelijk te sluiten. Maar het liep heel anders. Nancy werd bestsellerauteur,...
by J. M. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
1789-1795 were years of revolutionary drama in France—of struggle protest, war-fever, exasperation, terror, ambition and bloodshed. Few of the many who are remembered from the time were great men, but they lived under the microscope of great times, which gave to their most insignificant qualities...
Voice of the Past
Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral sources by the historian. The author offers advice...
by Anne B. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Anne Thompson here gives the fullest account and explanation to date of the diversity of the more than sixty manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a late thirteenth-century collection of lively verse lives of saints, in a southern English dialect. The importance of the SEL to hagiographic and...
The Greatness of God
How God Is the Foundation of All Reality, Truth, Love, Goodness, Beauty, and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
With each passing day, our world seems to drift further and further away from the God of the Bible, divine creation, and Christian belief. This societal shift toward postmodernism and secularism is not a new development, however; the expanding and intensifying revolt against the biblical God and Christianity...
by Rev. Charles Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
I was a slave, and was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on the third day of March, 1833. My father and mother both being slaves, of course my pedigree is not traceable, by me, farther back than my parents. Our family belonged to a man named Kirkwood, who was a large slave-owner....
by William Irwin Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. William Irwin Thompson, one of todays most innovative interdisciplinary...
by Berthold Madhukar Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
n 1991, Berthold Madhukar Thompson was declared enlightened by a renowned Indian teacher. Yet Madhukar's search for truth was not over; he himself was not convinced that he had achieved the summit of enlightenment. The Odyssey of Enlightenment chronicles the burning quest of a man already acknowledged...