John Theodore: 40 books
Evil Summer
Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted while walking home from school, killed by a chisel blow to his head, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a marshy wasteland at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Acid had been poured over his naked body. Evil Summer examines the shocking kidnapping...
Baseball's Natural
The Story of Eddie Waitkus
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
Baseball’ s Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus is John Theodore’ s true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and Phillies in the 1940s and became an immortalized figure in baseball lore as the inspiration for Roy Hobbs in Bernard Malamud’ s The Natural.
The...
by John Theodore Tussaud
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
The earliest information we have concerning Madame Tussaud is that she was born in Switzerland on the 7th of December, 1760, and was the only child of Joseph and Marie Grosholtz. Her mother was the daughter of a Swiss clergyman. She married on the 20th of October, 1795, François Tussaud, who, it...
Cyprus and the Financial Crisis
The Controversial Bailout and What it Means for the Eurozone
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The 2012-2013 economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus is commonly attributed to a number of factors, including the exposure of Cypriot banks to over leveraged local property companies; the knock-on effect of the Greek government debt crisis; and international credit rating agencies downgrading the...
The European Union and the Eurozone under Stress
Challenges and Solutions for Repairing Fault Lines in the European Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book explores the political and economic issues currently challenging EU member states affecting both the core Eurozone and non-core states. It analyses and explains how its own economic, and political, relationships have been critically influenced by fierce competition from its rivals in other...
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, Details and Elements
With 1880 Line Drawings of Arches, Domes, Doorways, Facades, Gables, Windows, etc.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Anyone seeking to understand the basic principles underlying architectural design will find this classic source book an invaluable addition to the bookshelf. Haneman's 1,800 captioned, clear line drawings on 70 large-size plates comprise an inexhaustible storehouse of suggestion and inspiration for architects,...
by John Theodore Slattery
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
DANTE AND HIS TIME To know Dante we must know the age which produced Christianity's greatest poet, he whom Ruskin calls "the central man of all the world, as representing in perfect balance the imaginative, moral and intellectual faculties, all at their highest." Other writers are not so...
by John Theodore Tussaud
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
This is a fascinating book and its fascination consists in two things attaching to its subject: first that the famous collection of modelled portraits which has become a sort of national institution in England under the name of “Madame Tussaud’s” has its roots in the greatest period of modern history,...
by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, John Bull
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....
by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Mary A. Turzillo
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers...
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alan E. Nourse, Philip José Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. This is our third Fantastic universe Superpack....
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein, They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer, Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell, Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Don’t...
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radios Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
Wild Yosemite
25 Tales of Adventure and Discovery from America's Most Beloved Writers
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
“Experience one of the country’s first national parks. . . . Its Giant Sequoias, close calls with avalanches, native birds, and breathtaking views” (National Geographic Traveler).
This literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of...