Will: 1593 books
Transatlantic Aliens
Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding...
Dreams Not Forgotten
Hope for a Better Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Dreams Not Forgotten presents a loving portrait of a man named Bill who has overcome the obstacles that would stop many in their tracks. Author Will Kalinke shares the ups and downs that Bill has encountered in his forty-six years of life. Although his mother passed away when he was just five, he...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
High-Speed Empire
Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The story of the world's most audacious infrastructure project.
Less than a decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Today, it owns a network of 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the rest of the world combined. Now, China is pushing its tracks into Southeast...
Pluto and Lowell Observatory
A History of Discovery at Flagstaff
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Pluto looms large in Flagstaff, where residents and businesses alike take pride in their community's most enduring claim to fame: Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell began searching for his theoretical "Planet X" in 1905, and Tombaugh's "eureka!"...
by Will Cohu
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
In the summer of 1875, two travellers walk south across the Lincolnshire Wolds to a village riven with dark secrets.
When Norman Tanner kills his workmate on a cold February morning a century later, he thinks he’s got away with murder. But Norman doesn’t know about the workmate’s girlfriend,...
Kearny's Dragoons Out West
The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson’s government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story—an epic of exploration,...
by Will Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
"God help the SOB who tries to come through that door tonight."Ruby Danes is sitting in a motel room off Azalea Garden Road with a bottle of Scotch and a .38 special, spinning Jack Kerouac's fountain pen on the nightstand and wondering how the last two weeks happened. Ruby's on a cross-continent...
by Will Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Retrace Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme Mud to the wider war on the Western Front.
Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates,...
Pollution
Causes, Effects and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both the developed and developing worlds.
The...
Caffeinated PDX
How Portland Became the Best Coffee City in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Portland, Oregon, coffee is an important part of the city’s highly regarded quality of life. Under oft-gray skies, independent roasters and cafés flourish, providing a wide array of styles and tastes for discerning Portlanders to choose from. The Portland coffee culture attracts visitors...
by Will Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
'"And the name of the girl through to next week is..." says Stina, and I want to kill her for pausing once again. I want to see her bludgeoned to death with her own stupid mic, her even stupider skin tight dress all stained with oozing gore...'
Thousands of wannabes are auditioning...
Developing Virtual Reality Applications
Foundations of Effective Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Virtual Reality systems enable organizations to cut costs and time, maintain financial and organizational control over the development process, digitally evaluate products before having them created, and allow for greater creative exploration. In this book, VR developers Alan Craig, William Sherman,...
The Good Politician
Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Surveys show a lack of trust in political actors and institutions across much of the democratic world. Populist politicians and parties attempt to capitalise on this political disaffection. Commentators worry about our current 'age of anti-politics'. Focusing on the United Kingdom, using responses...