Fred: 2346 books

Under the Parish Lantern offers an interesting insight into rural life in Worcestershire. In the original foreword Bernard Miles claimed that Fred Archer '...doesn't pretend to be a writer but just a farmer, putting things down in the plainest and most unadorned English, digging into his memory and...

The author, Fred Kerr, was introduced to the world of industrial railways in 1956 when his parents moved from Edinburgh to Corby in Northamptonshire, where the local steelworks offered a mix of locomotives from several manufacturers. When steam traction finished on BR in August 1968, Fred's interest...

Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the inherent theological impulses within major Californian cultural icons. Harnessing conceptual tools inherent to theology, through theological reflection,...

First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable career of “destroying everything segregated that I could find.” Of particular interest will be the...

Reinfeld's Masterpiece How to Play Chess like a Champion is Fred Reinfeld's sequel to his How to be a Winner at Chess and an absolute gem. In it the reader will find an exquisite blending of classic games, stories, insights, and instruction as only Reinfeld can put together. Rarely has an author succeeded...

In Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were...

2008 bat Billy Joel den amerikanischen Musikjournalisten Fred Schruers, ihm beim Verfassen seiner Autobiografie zu helfen. Über einhundert Stunden verbrachten die beiden daraufhin damit, intensiv über Joels Leben zu sprechen: über seine Kindheit in Long Island, über seine Erfahrungen als Boxer,...

Daddy Sharpe is a unique work of Caribbean fiction. It is the result of five years of historical research, details of which have been used to recreate a narrative of the life of one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, Samuel Sharpe. Locked in prison, awaiting a sentence of certain execution, Samuel Sharpe...

«Les diré algo: hasta que apareció Fred Vargas, la novela negra no nos interesaba demasiado. Pues bien, con esta novela, ha llegado el momento de entonar un mea culpa. Lo que Fred dice nos inquieta, nos conmueve. Su talento de novelista va más allá del género. A partir de hoy, lo juramos: no...

Korea’s Fight for Freedom Fred Arthur McKenzie, correspondent active in the early 20th century who wrote several books on geopolitical developments in eastern Asia (1869-1931) This ebook presents «Korea’s Fight for Freedom», from Fred Arthur McKenzie. A dynamic table of contents enables...

Have you ever wondered what dark matter is or why galaxies collide? Or why the Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth? Space is really, really big, as Douglas Adams once pointed out, and there is no better guide to it than Fred Watson, astronomer to the stars. Fred Watson has taken the...

Sober by Act of Parliament Fred Arthur McKenzie, correspondent active in the early 20th century who wrote several books on geopolitical developments in eastern Asia (1869-1931) This ebook presents «Sober by Act of Parliament», from Fred Arthur McKenzie. A dynamic table of contents enables...

Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy's prank. Arkie, Clemmie, and Oxie are three of a kind: cons who grub for small change. They have no history and no future. Johns is their counterpart in a brighter universe. His thievery is sanctioned...

"Epic in scope, but gentle and charming in delivery, Fred Amram's We're in America Now is a quiet chronicle of a clamorous era. Politics and war compel Amram's family to leave the only home they ever knew and embark on a personal exodus, fleeing a new pharaoh, pursuing a new promised land. They arrive...