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Famous First Flights
Sixteen Dramatic Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
An award-winning journalist explores the history of early aviation with sixteen tales of pioneering pilots—includes photos a forward by Buzz Aldrin.
Within this classic volume are the thrilling tales of tribulation and triumph behind some of the most spectacular aerodynamic feats of early twentieth...
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Stiflers of innovation, patent trolls use overbroad patents based on dated technology to threaten litigation and bring infringement suits against inventors. Trolls, also known as nonpracticing entities (NPEs), typically do not produce products or services but are in the business of litigation. They...
The Politics of Upheaval
1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict...
by Jacques L. Fuqua, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War. What will removing this specter entail? And with what should it be replaced?Similar to the unification...
by DeForest B. Soaries Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Using personal and biblical stories and verses, Meditations for Financial Freedom (Vol. 1) is the first installment of a twelve-part series aimed at helping people who are attempting to attain and maintain financial freedom.This book offers daily meditations that inform and inspire – make...
by Roy H. Park, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
“Sons in the Shadow is a wonderful book.” – P. J. O’Rourke, Author
"Few people are in a position to offer an inside view of such an important and intriguing business
pioneer. Fewer still have the keen eye for detail
required to take fun advantage of such an opportunity. Roy H....
Atlanta's Druid Hills
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2008
The Druid Hills neighborhood is characterized by rolling hills, magnificent trees and shrubs and gorgeous, expansive houses. Its Ponce de Leon corridor bears the imprint of the founder of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. The brainchild of Joel Hurt, the neighborhood was brought...
Commencement Messages
Education Starts, Not Ends, with the Diploma
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The largest room in any house is the room for improvement. Life is a series of progressions; we graduate from one level to the next, and with each level we experience not an end, but a beginning of the next part of a life or an experience. Whatever life brings it important to remember life is a journeykeep...
Forgotten Colorado Silver
Joseph Lesher’s Defiant Coins
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal "Referendum souvenir medal" coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William...
Genesis...
Farewell to Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
It did not matter to Senator Lang Elliott that religious fundamentalist had decided to make his life a daily living hell, but the senator took umbrage when these pious, self-serving folks, took it upon themselves to murder a member of his crew and steal his prized stallion in return for a King’s...
Martha Jefferson
An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Martha Jeffersonis the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources—including family letters, documents, and the handwritten notes left by Jefferson’s...
Inventing the Truth
The Art and Craft of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1998
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more.
For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill...
Abc: Doing Life Well
A Soul Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Times are changing, and so are our relationships with God. For many of us, it may be difficult to develop a deep spiritual relationship with God and live the way he intended within the framework of old methods.
In ABC: Doing Life Well, author Jimmie Lloyd Lewis Jr. shares his revitalized new...
Italian Stories
A Dual-Language Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Designed for the language student as well as the lover of fine literature, this convenient dual-language book features eleven great short stories — each one appearing in the original Italian, with vivid and accurate English translations on facing pages.Robert A. Hall, Jr., Professor Emeritus of...