Paul: 2291 books

Firefighting can be many things. Dangerous, rewarding, deadly, funny, and heart wrenching are just some of the things firefighting is. Day in and day out, men and women pull on their gear and roll out into the unknown. Just when a firefighter says, "I've seen it all", something new will come...

I wrote these letters between October 18, 1968, and October 1, 1969. I was an eighteen year old Marine serving in Vietnam as a rifleman.I did not see these letters after I had sent them to my family for more than sixteen years. When I did see them again, it was my father who handed me a Hush Puppy...

Have you ever wondered about some of the stories of the maritime disasters that have happened along the Central Coast and Hunter Coastlines of Australia? This book visits the individual histories of located shipwrecks along this notorious coastline. Some of the stories include the tale of...

The people of Palau over the centuries had evolved their own culture, language, body of knowledge, oral history and myths entirely devoid of any input from persons from other lands. This account by the men of the ANTELOPE of their experiences in Palau is the first and only thorough report of this...

Is Wilderness Survival 4 Me is the first addition to A Wilderness Survival Topic series of targeted, information heavy wilderness survival e-books. The inexpensive books in this series are each based around a specific subject or topic concerning wilderness survival, allowing the reader to purchase...

Men are now from Venus, women from Mars… or they may as well be. Sexually speaking, the planets are realigning. Here is a compelling radical contention that sperm dictates the behaviour of their host, men; while eggs determine that of women. Sperm and Eggs is ‘Everything you wanted to ask about sex but were afraid to know.’

I’ve always loved San Francisco so I decided to rite a book about some of my favorite places and things to do when I’ve gone there over the past 30 years and combined it in to one story.

We all know the first words proclaimed by Neil Armstrong when he got to the moon, but did you know the last words said by the last (the 12th of 12) astronaut were: "Let's get this mother out of here!" Read many stories that NASA left out of its press releases.

On July 21, 1548, Princess Elizabeth Tudor gave birth to a son at Cheshunt, England. The father of the child was Thomas Seymour, her stepfather.The child was placed in the home of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, better known to the world by his pen name "William Shakespeare."This is his story.

A polymathic collection of essays -- personal, political, literary and sensual -- from America's most underrated writer.Now with working links!

"A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."—Times Literary Supplement "An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles From Berlin...

This short Go 2! Article suggests an interesting and varied one week trip to Austria, which takes in Vienna, Salzburg, the Salzkammergut and the Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden. Since these places are all quite close to each other, the trip is doable in say a week without extending your budget too much. [Article - 4 pages]

"Gabriel Zaid is a marvelously elegant and playful writer—a cosmopolitan critic with sound judgment and a light touch. He is a jewel of Latin American letters, which is no small thing to be. Read him—you'll see."—Paul Berman "Mr. Zaid's goal is to capture the variety of...

In her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. Open Secrets / Inward Prospects divides in a rough but ready way into two sorts: observations about our external world well known to all but not always openly told, and sightings of...