Thompson: 3849 books
Do Not Deny Me
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
When Jean Thompson—“America’s Alice Munro” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—is telling stories, “You cannot put the book down” (The Seattle Times), and her superlative new collection, Do Not Deny Me, is one to be savored, word by word.
• Award-winning storyteller gaining popularity:...
by Francis M. Thompson, Kenneth N. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Frank Thompson’s lively memoir details his experiences in the upper Missouri country at the beginning of the Montana gold rush. A young man at the outset of the Civil War, Thompson supported the Union cause but realized that military life was not for him. Turning to the frontier, he headed west...
Fred Thompson’s Southern Sides
250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Side dishes are the very heart and soul of southern cuisine. So proclaims Fred Thompson in this heartfelt love letter to the marvelous foods on the side of the plate. From traditional, like Pableaux's Red Beans and Rice, to contemporary, like Scuppernong-Glazed Carrots, Thompson's 250 recipes recommend...
PORTRAIT OF ELLIOTT
The Life of Elliott Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The story of Elliott Thompson’s remarkable life proves that it’s never too late to overcome obstacles and reinvent yourself. A rebellious teen, Thompson left school and joined the Navy during the Great Depression. After sailing the world, he began a lengthy government career, immersed in numbers...
Who Stole My Customer??
Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Rebuild customer loyalty, strengthen customer relationships, and leverage the immense power of customer co-innovation! Harvey Thompson's Who Stole My Customer?? is the world's definitive guide to rebuilding customer loyalty: must-reading in C-Suites and top business schools worldwide. That's no surprise:...
’Tis Grace
A Story of God’S Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Allan Thompson was a self-destructive alcoholic who had lost everything but his devoted family when he finally hit rock bottom and heard the still, small voice of God beckoning him to a life of hope, joy, and the ministry of Gods Word.
Thompson grew up in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma and...
Whose Detroit?
Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the...
The National Joker
Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Abraham Lincoln’s sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day. Indeed, his love of jokes—hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them—prompted critics to dub Lincoln “the National Joker.” The political cartoons...
The Politics of Inequality
A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American...
Persuading Aristotle
The timeless art of persuasion in business, negotiation and the media
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
'When Peter Thompson, master of the broadcasting art, turns his attention to the nuts and bolts of persuasion, the result is precisely what you d expect: lucid, comprehensive and intensely practical.' Hugh Mackay, Author of The Good Listener
'As soon as you move one step up from the bottom,...
by William Warren, Chefs of the Jim Thompson restaurants, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Having gained international renown as Bangkok's most 'celebrated social center', the house Jim Thompson built on the banks of the Klong Maha Nag still preserves the spirit and the legend of the man. The Jim Thompson house, as it is popularly known, was the setting for many parties and dinners which...
by Marshall Thompson, Dane Ladwig
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Chi-Lites were instrumental in changing the very foundation of the music industry. With their number one hits "Oh Girl" and "Have You Seen Her," Pop music artists and producers recognized the importance of the deep-seated Doo-Wop roots and angelic harmonies that lifted the Chi-Lites music to new...
The Great Shark Hunt
Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s...
by Richard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Cul de Sac began newspaper syndication in September 2007 and ended in September 2012, when creator Richard Thompson retired to focus on treatment for Parkinson's disease. In its too-short time on the comics page, Cul de Sac garnered an avid fan base, a Reuben and a Harvey Award, and remarkable admiration...