Ian: 5018 books
Eight Twenty Eight
When Love Didn't Give Up
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
What if that thing you really feared happened? Would the joy you hold pop? Or would you experience love and joy deeper than you can imagine?
They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he started looking for a ring. They dreamed about life together, a life of beauty...
The Wonders of Language
Or: How to Make Noises and Influence People
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers, morphemes,...
The Globe
The Science of Discworld II: A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat?
When the wizards of Unseen University first created Roundworld, they were so concerned with discovering the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants...
by Ian Heath
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
The Cyprus Conspiracy
America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2001
A generation after the Greek colonels staged a coup on Cyprus in July 1974, dramatically ousting its Greek-Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island, the historic Mediterranean island remains split in two. As divided as Berlin before the...
by Ian Osburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
On a night in December someone is telling you a story in front of a warm fire about a beautiful forest at Christmastime. It begins like many others but soon you realise this story has a secret. A secret so large that, if it escaped, it would put in danger the great forest itself and everything the...
The Fish's Eye
Essays About Angling and the Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat...
The Lost World of the Kimberley
Extraordinary glimpses of Australia's ice age ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Australia's Kimberley was the cultural hub of the Ice Age world. Today, it holds within its bounds the world's largest collection of Ice Age figurative art, giving us vital clues to the origins of other cultures and civilisations right across the world.
Back at a time when most of Europe lay...
Appropriated Pasts
Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture"...
by Ian Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The Guards fought in every major British campaign on the continent during the Napoleonic Wars. They carved their place in history under commanders such as Sir John Moore and Wellington from Corunna and Talavera during the Peninsula War to their legendary defence of the Chateau of Hougoumont throughout...
by Ian Fletcher, Natalia Ishchenko
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before.
In this compelling and meticulously...
by Kevin J. Anderson, Janis Ian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
A hilarious horror rocker from New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and Grammy winner Janis Ian. Greatest hits—back from the dead! A famous one-hit-wonder rock star might think his career is over (being dead, for starters), but a group of obsessive fans has other ideas.
Dog Behavior
An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Dr. Ian Dunbar, renowned dog trainer and behaviorist, explains how dogs think, how dogs learn, and why they act the way they do. Dog owners who understand these issues can better train their dogs and develop a closer relationship with their pets.