Tom Miller: 35 books
The Philosopher's Flight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The first book in a new series and a thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher’s Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America that “[begins] with rollicking fierceness that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesn’t loosen its grip...
Revenge of the Saguaro
Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Tom Miller's Southwest is a vortex of cockfights and cantinas, of black velvet paintings and tacky bolo ties, of eco-militants, border-crossers, and eccentric characters whose outlook is as spare and elemental as the desert that surrounds them. This is Miller's turf. With wit and insight, he reveals...
On the Border
Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Tom Miller’s On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays...
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Cuba—mysterious, intoxicating, captivating. Whether you’re planning to go or have just returned, Cuba, Hot and Cold is essential for your bookshelf. With a keen eye and dry wit, author Tom Miller takes readers on an intimate journey from Havana to the places you seldom find in guidebooks.
A...
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Tom Miller recognized the need to write this book a few years ago, after reviewing postings on popular discussion pages frequented by actuaries. He was surprised and troubled by the magnitude of misinformation posted on these websites. Clearly actuaries and actuarial students posting this information...
Trading with the Enemy
A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Havana knew me by my shoes,” begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the...
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador’s coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing Miller to give us his impressions from the tributaries of...
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
The second book in the thrilling series that began with The Philosopher’s Flight finds Robert Canderelli Weekes as a rookie Rescue and Evacuation flier on the front lines of World War I in France. He came to save lives, but has no idea how far he’ll have to go to win the war.
Thanks to...
XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming
Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Get Started Fast with XNA Game Studio 4.0–and Build Great Games for Both Windows® Phone 7 and Xbox 360® This is the industry’s best reference and tutorial for all aspects of XNA Game Studio 4.0 programming on all supported platforms, from Xbox 360 to Windows Phone 7 and Windows PCs. The only...
China's Asian Dream
Empire Building along the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the...
Sandy
The Authorised Biography of Sandy Jardine
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
William Pullar ‘Sandy’ Jardine is an Ibrox icon. Respected and revered throughout the football world and beyond, he will forever be a club legend.
Sandy was the consummate professional. His silky skills, speed and ability to read the game were combined with a sense of fair play that made...
Slim Jim
Simply the Best
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Jim Baxter - the legendary 'Slim Jim' - was arguably Scotland's greatest-ever footballer, a left-footed genius who became a Rangers icon and helped Scotland humiliate world champions England at Wembley in 1967 - with some famous keepie-uppie along the way. And although much has been written about...
China's Urban Billion
The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by...
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Top traders, investors, and analysts agree that one method, option-adjusted spread (OAS) analysis, is the most useful way to compare and value securities with options. Nearly every day the bond market figures out a new way to structure securities, most of which involve options.
This book explains...