Lyons Press: 836 books
City of Rivals
Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Forty years ago the Watergate scandal deeply wounded Americans’ faith in government. Since then, good-government reformers and big-government opponents have been on a shared mission to make everything transparent. The problem is that too much light is scaring Congressmen away from making the tough...
Kennedy and Reagan
Why Their Legacies Endure
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
It's been fifty years since JFK’s assassination and nearly twenty since Ronald Reagan disappeared from public life. While they never ran head-to-head, they developed their legacies in competing ways and those legacies battle each other even today. The story of one illuminates the other, and explains...
Death Roe
A Woods Cop Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In the sixth title in the successful Woods Cop Mystery series, another suspenseful who-done-it finds Grady Service with an unexpectedly complex, truly rotten, and important case on his hands. This time tainted eggs are showing up in caviar and Service must expose a ring of corruption in state government...
The President's First Year
None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned - Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of the presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the world. Grouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first years in office, the book takes readers into the history, thought processes, and...
In the Shadow of Saint Death
The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies Los Zetas, the cartel's...
Midair
An Epic Tale of Survival and a Mission That Might Have Ended the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation – a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War.
Authored by Craig K. Collins, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
"Besides being one of our greatest presidents, Roosevelt stands alone as a conservationist, a visionary when it came to the protection and preservation of America's natural resources, and an author."--Library Journal
There have been few hunters as daring, as powerful, and as articulate as our...
Ashes Under Water
The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families....
by Stephen Sautner
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Fish On, Fish Off is the angling version of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. Through a series of nearly 50 personal essays, the author explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world – and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way....
Crazy
Notes On and Off the Couch
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
An average day in the life of a psychologist can be a frenetic one. A 9 a.m. appointment to help a woman manage a husband who won't take out the garbage quickly shifts to a session with a convicted rapist at 10 a.m. After talking with a child an hour later about his fears of school, the psychologist...
What a Trout Sees
A Fly-Fishing Guide to Life Underwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
There are ten thousand guide books on the market that tell you how to approach the fish from the bank or boat, but there is no accessible, mainstream title that shows you what the world is like under the water, from the fish’s perspective. With Trout’s Eye View, the curious fisherman interested...
by Dick Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Chasing the lightning-fast bonefish across the south Pacific, Florida, and the Caribbean is for many anglers a near obsession, and this is the handbook to such fly-fishing adventure. Author Dick Brown, a widely experienced bonefisher and fly tyer who writes for several angling journals, offers keen...
Fishing Utah
An Angler's Guide To More Than 170 Prime Fishing Spots
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2008
Whether your passion is bass and pike in the desert reservoirs, the trophy trout in the renowned Green River, or the delicate, gem-like inhabitants of the alpine lakes of the high Uinta, you'll find the facts here that will get you on the water and well on your way to catching fish. Fishing Utah offers...
We, Robot
Skywalker's Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
We, Robot does for robotics what Michio Kaku's bestselling Physics of the Impossible has done for physics. How close to becoming reality are our favorite science fiction robots? And what might be the real-life consequences of their existence? Robotics and artificial intelligence expert (and science...