Hugh: 1441 books

In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living, while the social sciences have achieved a...

Chicago police sergeant Joe Donegan came to the department with a plan. To him the police badge was a license to steal, a free ride, and an easy way to get whatever you want, whenever you want--without suffering the consequences. And when City Councilman Skip Murphy needs an embarrassing situation...

When scientist Jonathan Gault is fired from his high-paying job at a military research facility, he is desperate to find new sponsors for his bizarre experiments. Gault's new racket is a deadly home security business for the ultra-rich: booby-trapping their property with high-voltage electricity and...

FEW women in French history have been the subject of more discussion than the young girl whom Molière married, at the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, on February 20, 1662. Armande Grésinde Claire Elisabeth Béjart, for that was the bride's name, is described in the marriage deed as the daughter...

An absolute goldmine, this book contains a collection of brief biographies of the 17 greatest preachers of the Reformation Era; and includes a sermon written by each of them. Modern readers will be deeply moved and inspired by the words of these humble giants of the faith who were used powerfully...

Beginning with the death of legendary IRA figure Sean South of Garryowen on New Year's Day 1957, the book describes the background to what we have now come to call 'the troubles' and paints vivid portraits of the major players whose actions sparked the violence that erupted on the streets of Belfast...

Narrative, Kindle version of the US Army Green Book series. Extensive, detailed and authoritative there are no more comprehensive accounts of World War II, unless perhaps it is the very similar British HMSO Official histories. The many maps, table and diagrams of the original have been removed...

A Diffident Doctor tells one doctor's personal story, with all its ups and downs, from childhood to retirement.  Beginning in a small Illinois town, to a Harvard College scholarship, to medical school at Yale, it describes his research in virology and the teaching and consulting in pediatric infectious...

Charmers and Chancers tells the stories about the many famous and infamous people whom Ive met and often interviewed during my fifty-year media career. It also includes a lot of personal and family history.

How did the Davidic line/Ulvungars/Normans conquered England? This is the Saga of the great Ulvungar Dynasty and their plan to counter the hegemony of Roman Christianity, by counter attacking, first with Viking raids and later by conquest and settlement. Shows the web of marriages, alliances and the...

Em uma paisagem destruída e hostil, em um futuro ao qual poucos tiveram o azar de sobreviver, uma comunidade resiste, confinada em um gigantesco silo subterrâneo.Lá dentro, mulheres e homens vivem enclausurados, sob regulamentos estritos, cercados por segredos e mentiras.Para continuar ali, eles...

We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists. The French Revolution was the first occasion when a democratic government used terror as a political weapon, executing thousands of people for political crimes. What caused reasonable people to implement such a brutal regime?...