Thompson: 3849 books
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...
Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll...
The $11 Billion Year
From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
"This chronicle of 2012 is a slice of what happened during a watershed year for the Hollywood movie industry. It's not the whole story, but it's a mosaic of what went on, and why, and of where things are heading."
What changed in one Hollywood year to produce a record-breaking box...
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews...
by Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably...
"In the Hands of a Good Providence"
Religion in the Life of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Attempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict these claims, are nothing new. Particularly after Washington was no longer around to refute them, legends of his Baptist baptism or secret conversion to Catholicism...
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel
John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the...
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this first collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire, and elsewhere.
Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some...
The Ghost in the House
Motherhood, Depression and the Legacy of
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
An award-winning reporter for the Washington Post, Tracy Thompson was thirty-four when she was hospitalized and put on suicide watch during a major depressive episode. This event, the culmination of more than twenty years of silent suffering, became the point of departure for an in-depth, groundbreaking...
by Edgar Tristram Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered...
by Dr. T. G. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
My father is one of the most prolific preacher I have ever meet. One would be astonish at the wisdom that pours from him in conversation. I anticipated this book for many years because I suspected his writings would humble the strongest part of our existence (our wisdom) what I thought I knew about...
by Eric Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.
Eric Thompson is a career nuclear submarine officer...
Good Science
The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo—only a tacit agreement...
by Jim Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompson’s dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A., Thompson’s favorite setting. In this novel, Thompson’s first major success as a pulp fiction writer,...