Rick Wilson: 9 books
Everything Trump Touches Dies
A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
#1 New York Times bestseller! A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.
Includes an all-new chapter analyzing Trump’s impact on the 2018 elections.
In...
The Other Robert - Fergusson
The Poet Who Inspired Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
‘Rhyme I had given up; but meeting with Fergusson’s Scottish Poems, I strung anew my wildly-sounding rustic lyre with emulating vigour.’ (Robert Burns recalling his younger self in 1787)
But who is Burns referring to? It’s not easy to answer if you go beyond naming him as the poetic...
Plantation Jesus
Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn’t bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior. That false image of God is dead, right?...
Man Who Was Jekyll and Hyde
The Lives and Crimes of Deacon Brodie
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The chilling tale of one of Scotland's most infamous villains, including new details and previously unpublished informationHe was a respected cabinet-maker and councilman by day—but Deacon William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh. Cleverly...
by Rick Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
2009 marked the 300th anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, the Fife mariner who became the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The story is told not only by the author but also through the words of those who knew Selkirk with three colourful contemporary accounts...
Watch Out for the Pointy End:
Knife Defence Manual to Assist in Training Citizens, Law Enforcement and Security Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Most knife attacks are knifings, which means they start up close and personal, and not from the distances usually displayed in movies.
Knifings are most often done with one arm trying to control you as the other weapon arm stabs in short repetitive strikes like a sewing machine. That is the...
by Tom Bentley, Rick Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
The Roaring Twenties were bellowing along—until they weren't. In a splintered bar in Boston, Pinky deVroom, newspaperman, amateur cynic and would-be-novelist, clutches his sour Prohibition brandy and watches his world get sucked down into the vortex. Hope comes in the form of an astute, comely literary...
by Taylor Grant, Richard Thomas, Joe McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
But be warned, fellow traveler… this is not just a book—it is a journey into the very life of Death.
Listen to the tales of the afterlife: Halloween, vampires, Heaven, Hell, Armageddon, zombies, death-bringing angels, ghosts, cults, ritual killings, nightmares from Vietnam... The lists...
An Introduction to IMS
Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z® data management needs: 50,000,000,000+...