Lawrence: 4086 books
by James Lawrence Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Searchlights on Health James Lawrence Nichols, professor, publisher, businessman (1851-1895)
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Ruhet in Frieden
Matthew Scudder, #10
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Wenn du die Cops nicht holen kannst, holst du Scudder
Kenan Khourys Frau geht einkaufen und kommt nicht mehr nach Hause. Jedenfalls nicht lebendig. Aber weil Kenan Khoury im großen Stil mit Drogen handelt, kann er nicht zur Polizei gehen. Stattdessen wendet er sich an Matthew Scudder, einen...
Die Nacht und die Musik
Matthew Scudder, #18
Language: German
Release Date: May 8, 2018
»Ich liebe die Matthew-Scudder-Reihe und ich liebe Kurzgeschichten ... Das hier ist die komplette Sammlung mit allen Scudder-Kurzgeschichten. Eine der besten Kurzgeschichten aller Zeiten ist ›Im frühen Licht des Tages‹, sie wurde mit dem Edgar Allan Poe Award ausgezeichnet.« – Otto Penzler,...
Die Essays von Warren Buffett
Die wichtigsten Lektionen für Investoren und Unternehmer
Language: German
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Die Essays von Warren Buffett genießen seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten Kultstatus. Zusammengestellt und aufbereitet von einem der renommiertesten Experten für Value-Investing, Lawrence A. Cunningham, sind die hier zusammengefassten Briefe von Warren Buffett an seine Aktionäre ein unverklärter Einblick...
Billy Durant
Creator of General Motors
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Praise for the first edition:
"A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America."
---Detroit Free Press
"It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is...
by Lawrence M. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the...
Fasten Your Seat Belts
The Passionate Life of Bette Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The illuminating, comprehensive biography of Bette Davis, one of the most electrifying Hollywood stars ever to grace the silver screen.
With a career spanning six decades and more than eighty films, Bette Davis is synonymous with Hollywood legend. From her incandescent performance as Margo...
by Lawrence Beesley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Lawrence Beesley was one of the luckiest men on the Titanic. Although the word had been given, “women and children first,” he was nevertheless ordered into a lifeboat to make up the numbers. At the end of that fateful night he stepped, dry and physically unharmed, onto the deck of the rescuing...
Out of the Flames
The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Out of the Flames is an extraordinary story - providing testament to the power of ideas, the enduring legacy of books, and the triumph of individual courage.
Out of the Flames tracks the history of The Chrisitianismi Restituto, examining Michael Servetus's life and times and the politics...
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Life on a Mediterranean Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: “A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene” (Time).
In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some...
Jackie as Editor
The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life—her nineteen-year editorial career
History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment...
Bangkok Days
A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS
Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons—a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke...
A Dedicated Life
Journalism, Justice and a Chance for Every Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In this inspiring memoir, “an unfailing champion for all children . . . shares his ever- committed life story . . . What an example he is for all of us” (Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children’s Defense Fund).
After spending three decades in journalism as a newspaper reporter,...
Naked in Baghdad
The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
As National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen un-embedded American...