Lawrence: 4086 books
by Lawrence David Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
These are true stories of the Nome gold rush immortalized by the voices of the journalists and miners who lived through those exciting and dangerous times. Most of the miners were propelled into the harsh lands by wildly enthusiastic dreams and expectations. Some of these stories tell of the miners...
My Father's Name
A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather’s old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Father’s Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at...
Turning Tragedy into Victory
Lessons Learned from Cops Who Have Fallen Enforcing the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The author of influential books such as Force Under Pressure and Stoning the Keepers at the Gate, Dr. Lawrence N. Blum is a renowned expert on the psychology of police officers. With Turning Tragedy into Victory, he returns to and expands on the important subject of how to best help those who have sworn...
The Lives of Erich Fromm
Love's Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently championing...
The Loss Of The S.S. Titanic
Its Story and Its Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The Loss of the S.S. Titantic is Lawrence Beesley’s compelling first-person account of the tragic sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912. Published amid the continued media frenzy a scant nine weeks following the tragedy, The Loss of the S.S. Titanic draws on Beesley’s...
The Making of the Roman Army
From Republic to Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army.
Lawrence Keppie overcomes the traditional dichotomy between the historical view of...
by Lawrence Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book analyzes the strategic implications of the shift in focus for the US Armed Forces from regular to irregular war. Lawrence Freedman closely examines the difficulty the US Armed Forces face in shifting their focus from preparing for regular wars, in which combat is separated from civil society, to irregular wars, in which combat is integrat
The Terror Years
From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken,...
Blackballed
The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
"College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial...
Aristocrats
Power, Grace, and Decadence: Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Aristocracy means "rule by the best." For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes, and its sense of public duty. It evolved...
Used and Rare
Travels in the Book World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again.
The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history,...
Deconstructing Penguins
Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to adopt...
Do What Thou Wilt
A Life of Aleister Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Do What Thou Wilt: An exploration into the life and works of a modern mystic, occultist, poet, mountaineer, and bisexual adventurer known to his contemporaries as "The Great Beast"
Aleister Crowley was a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary and cultural...
Thirteen Days in September
The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty--the first treaty in the modern Middle East, and one which endures to this day.
With...