Tim: 4567 books
Highlander
The History of the Legendary Highland Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Acclaimed historian Tim Newark tells the story of the Highlanders through the words of the soldiers themselves, from diaries, letters, and journals uncovered from archives in Scotland and around the world. At the Battle of Quebec in 1759, only a few years after their defeat at Culloden, the 78th Highlanders...
Operation Enduring Freedom
The Seeds of War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The first six months of the war in Afghanistan were incredibly confused. Few journalists or civilians had access to the main events and the result was the creation of many urban myths that persist to this day. This book reveals the truth behind Operation Enduring Freedom, its objectives, successes,...
by Tim Mann
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This documentary book tells about the prolonged crisis in Ukraine, Euromaidan and revolution, post-revolution unrest and war in Donbass. It tells the story of the bloody events in Ukraine in 2014, confrontation between the Western Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine, showing both points of view on the events and moods of the split Ukrainian society
The Current
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people.
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town,...
Faith of Our Founding Fathers
A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Secular textbooks now fill our classrooms, while the Ten Commandments have been removed from their walls. Is this the vision held by those who worked to found this nation? What faith did our founding fathers truly believe and practice in their daily lives, and what does it really matter for us? Were...
Sports Illustrated Blood, Sweat and Chalk
The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The modern game of football is filled with plays and formations with names like the Counter Trey, the Wildcat, the Zone Blitz and the Cover Two. They have become part of the sport's vernacular, and yet for many fans they remain just names, often confusing ones. To rectify that, Tim Layden has drilled...
In the Shadow of the Towers
Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“Powerful and interesting” short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly).
How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly...
by Tim Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
This book will teach you how to raise one of the best fish catching baits there is, European night crawlers. You will learn how to use your table scraps and waste paper to feed and bed the worms. So you will be raising them using materials you previously would have thrown into the garbage. You will...
Rebellion
Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise in rebellion against Stuart rule. Both James...
Templars in America
From the Crusades to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Templars in America explodes the myth that Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas. Using archival and archaeological sources, Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins reveal the Venetian connection between the Knights Templar and pre-Columbian America and prove the continuous history...
by Tim Kliphuis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
This book is the first method ever for learning Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of Stephane Grappelli. Have you, too, often listened to Grappellis solos thinking I wish I could do that, but it is way over my head? Here is the answer. Simple theory, licks and stylistic lessons point you towards your...
by Tim Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights.
Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know, through the detailed construction of the play,...
Bird Sense
What It's Like to Be a Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?
Bird Sense...
De Valera
Long Fellow, Long Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Eamon de Valera – 'The Long Fellow' – remains a towering presence whose shadow still falls over Irish life. The history of Ireland for much of the twentieth century is the history of de Valera.
From the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, right through to his...