Alexander: 7118 books
by Alexander Russo
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The book is a straight forward account of Alexander Russos adventurous journey in the Naval Reserve, serving with Naval Intelligence and as combat artist during WWII. He was the fi rst and youngest of Naval personnel to volunteer and engage in the landings in Sicily and Normandy, the graphic results...
Assimilate
A critical history of industrial music
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2018
« Industriel » est une épithète que les fans et les critiques appliquent à une grande variété de musiques - le battement sur des bidons de Einstürzende Neubauten, le grognement électronique de Throbbing Gristle, le cliquetis rythmique en boucle de Skinny Puppy et les compositions synthpop...
The House of Wittgenstein
A Family at War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history,...
by Alexander McClure
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller, with an introduction and anecdotes by Colonel Alexander K. McClure of the Philadelphia Times. Wit and humor of the war, the Courts, the backwoods and the White House.
Gratitude in Motion
A True Story of Hope, Determination, and the Everyday Heroes Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Kelly Alexander, a lifelong athlete, rode her bike home from work. She had survived both a diagnosis of lupus and brain surgery, had a fulfilling career, and was married at last to the love of her life. Everything was good as she coasted along,...
The Force of Things
A Marriage in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory
"One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of...
by Alexander Masters
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads...
Hometown Appetites
The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures
In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a Kansas farm girl...
Washington's Spies
The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond...
The Sack of Rome
Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man?...
A Colossal Wreck
A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H.L. Menchken and Tom Paine. Colossal Wreck, his final work, finished shortly before his death in July 2012, exemplifies the prodigious literary...
by Alexander Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Alexander Whytes concluding volume of character sketches are drawn from the men and women in the parables found in the Gospels of Luke, Matthew, and Mark. Subtitling this volume Our Lords Characters, Whytes examination of these personalities offers a unique perspective of the parables of Jesus. Whyte...
by Whyte, Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This is a 6 Volume Set of Bible Characters From Old and New Testaments is the crowning literary achievement of Alexander Whyte, author of 'Bunyan characters', 'Lancelot Andrewes and his Private Devotions. Whyte gives such indepth look into many of the Bible characters from Adam to Zacchaeus...
by Alexander J. Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book contains the biography of Maria Theresa of Austria, the only female ruler of the Habsburg Dominions written by J. Alexander Mahan, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this fascinating woman.