Walter: 4352 books
Murder in Minnesota
A Collection of True Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents...
Schools for Misrule
Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools...
I'm Working on That
A Trek From Science Fiction to Science Fact
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2002
"Beam me up, Scotty."®
During the 1960s, in an age when the height of technology was a crackly AM transistor radio, Star Trek envisioned a time when communication devices worked without wires.
"Working"
Computers of the decade took up entire climate-controlled rooms and belonged only to the government...
Treating the Brain
What the Best Doctors Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Even in this information age, it is a daunting task to find clear, concise, and credible sources for essential medical facts. And for those dealing with the symptoms of often serious neurological disorders, finding trustworthy and straightforward information is gravely important.
Treating the...
Eurekas and Euphorias
The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, and by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as...
by Walter F. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Now in a readily available digital edition, and adding a substantive 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, this classic of law and political science is presented to a new generation of thoughtful observers of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its justices create judicial decisions. As Epstein...
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
NOMINATED FOR A NEBULA AWARD. Walter Jon Williams’ classic science fantasy Metropolitan is once again available for a new generation of readers.
Aiah has fought her way from poverty and discovered a limitless source of plasm, the mysterious substance that powers the world-city. Her discovery...
We Live Too Short and Die Too Long
How to Achieve and Enjoy Your Natural 100-Year-Plus Life Span
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
“Here is a book on health that puts it all together—a book that gives you the feeling that a personal friend is sharing things of great value with you.”—Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness
Do you expect to live to be 100—and remain healthy and active throughout your very...
More Liberty Means Less Government
Our Founders Knew This Well
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights, brutal candor, and an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History
Fascinating Biographies of Heroic Leaders and the Tragic Tales That Changed the Path of This Proud Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines...
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Many have believed that Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato. Well Plato was not the first to write about it.
We have found a very much earlier document. It was written in 9619 BC, about 9,250 years before Plato’s writing.
This ancient document is believed to be the oldest document...
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Many have believed that Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato. Well Plato was not the first to write about it.We have found a very much earlier document. It was written in 9619 BC, about 9,250 years before Plato’s writing.This ancient document is believed to be the oldest document...
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Many have believed that Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato. Well Plato was not the first to write about it.
We have found a very much earlier document. It was written in 9619 BC, about 9,250 years before Plato’s writing.
This ancient document is believed to be the oldest document...
Recovering the Unity of the Bible
One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Recovering the Unity of the Bible helps readers grasp the Bible’s progressive witness on various theological concepts. Walter C. Kaiser challenges the common scholarly posture that sees mostly diversity throughout the biblical canon, pointing instead to the way several Biblical themes substantially...