Lyons Press: 836 books
Gangland New York
The Places and Faces of Mob History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Get a taste of New York’s underworld by seeing where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died. From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish “Kosher Nostra” and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city’s history,...
A Brief History of History
Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
What Daniel Boorstin did for science in The Discoverers, Timothy Ferris for cosmology in Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and Robert Heilbroner for economics in The Worldly Philosophers, Colin Wells now does for history in A Brief History of History. The most accessible, concise, and clear-sighted biography...
The U.S. Military Pocket Survival Guide
Plus Evasion & Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Stranded behind enemy lines? Or in America’s wilderness? Reach for the U.S. Military Pocket Survival Guide. A decade after its original publication in 1999, this classic manual—included in the survival kits of all branches of the U.S. military—has now been revised and updated for 2009 by military...
Tracking Humans
A Fundamental Approach to Finding Missing Persons, Insurgents, Guerrillas, and Fugitives from the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Tracker. The very word evokes images of buckskin-clad braves crouching over the ground, carefully studying the signs before them—a part of history. But the modern world has not put behind it the need for the earthy business of tracking. Such skills are still routinely used by the military, rescue...
by L. Douglas Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Did you know that the Coast Guard mounted a rescue effort on 9.11 and evacuated more than 100,000 New Yorkers from Manhattan by boat? Go to the little-known Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum in Cape May, New Jersey to discover that story. How about the remnants of the helicopter from Blackhawk Down...
Birdwatcher
The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
[2015 Reprint] Roger Tory Peterson—the Renaissance man who taught Americans the joy of watching birds—also invented the modern field guide. His 1934 landmark Field Guide to the Birds was the first book designed to go outdoors and help people identify the elements of nature. This self-proclaimed...
Common Phrases, 2nd
And Where They Come From
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Anguished English, Common Phrases is a fascinating guide to the origins of our language. Wonderful stories reveal the real meaning of Adam’s apple, nick of time, stool pigeon, armed to the teeth, raining cats and dogs, at sixes and sevens, dog days of summer,...
Civil War Stories
40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal...
Capital of the World
A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A portrait of NewYork City in the roaring twenties.
Fugitives of the Forest
The Heroic Story Of Jewish Resistance And Survival During The Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.
Be Iron Fit
Time-Efficient Training Secrets for Ultimate Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
“Most how-to books are too technical or too shallow. Don Fink manages to pen a unique combination of information, anecdotes, and readability.”—Scott Tinley, two-time Ironman World Champion
“Don's book certainly made me think. A truly complete book for all abilities in the sport of triathlon...
by Terry Ryan, Kirsten Mortensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Training dogs has traditionally been done by using negative reinforcement and brute force (take the choke collar as an example). But the tide is turning, and Terry Ryan, well-known dog trainer, is at the forefront of a revolution. OUTWITTING DOGS draws on her twentyfive years of hands-on experience helping...
Agility Training for You and Your Dog
From Backyard Fun To High-Performance Training
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Based on the positive training methods of Ali Canova and Joe Canova, two of the top agility competitors in America, this book will get you and your dog started in agility training. This author makes it easy with her step-by-step approach, footing diagrams and course illustrations, and beautiful full-color...
Believe
A Horseman's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
Master horseman Buck Brannaman, the real-life Horse Whisperer, continues the chronicle of his life as trainer and mentor in Believe, where we meet thirteen remarkable people whose lives he has affected. Through their accounts of help and healing and through Brannaman’s own introductions, the reader...