Powell: 1221 books

Parti pour l’Italie en 1573, le jeune peintre flamand Karel van Mander y découvre les Vies des plus excellents peintres, sculpteurs et architectes de Giorgio Vasari, et bientôt lui vient l’idée d’entreprendre un travail équivalent sur les artistes originaires des anciens Pays-Bas espagnols,...

This volume describes Bedouins, a tribal pastoral people in eastern Saudia Arabia. This volume documents changes in their way of life, beginning in the 1930s and continuing to the 1960s, when this book originally appeared. The Empty Quarter described here is a place inhabited by a people so thoroughly...

Two aristocratic brothers executed for forgery in 1776; a young woman who spurned the advances of a one-legged admirer, battered to death in her Camden Town home in 1926; a pornographer shot dead by the Krays in 1966 for having ‘too much lip’ … Take a terrifying day-by-day journey and experience...

The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.

An engaging and beautifully illustrated full-colour guide to some of the most exciting wildlife in the world in an area about to see a significant increase in visitor numbers as a direct result of changes in the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. Bradt's Arctic Wildlife is an ideal companion on board...

The third manual in the CLM series, The Teacher and The Student is a series of essays on the relationship between the teacher and the student, as well as lessons on how to teach, how to be a students, the psychology of the training room, learning types, and many other topics.

This book explores the development of tactical air power in Britain between 1940 and 1943 through a study of the Royal Air Force’s Army Co-operation Command. It charts the work done by the Command during its existence, and highlights the arguments between the RAF and Army on this contentious issue...

The Mayhem ends. New life beginsMitch lets the love of his life go. He doesn't think she will trust him with all the secrets he carries. But when he has a tragic accident he gives up on himself. Nothing, any of his friends can do helps. He has changed, for the worst. No one wants to be around...

Cry of a Marksman: Mystery, Murder and Mayhem… Winning the lottery for Cally Walters gave her new hope to save her failing marriage. But little did she know that murder was right around the corner. Her husband Kyle wanted it all for himself. His sudden death left her with a lot of illegal...

The harrowing true story of a mother whose innocent photos of her daughter resulted in child pornography charges—“an enthralling book” (Robert Coles). When Oberlin, Ohio, resident Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home, she had no idea that two snapshots...

HISTORIC TOWNS OF THE WESTERN STATES Edited by LYMAN P. POWELL.  Illustrated G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS.  Published by The Knickerbocker Press in 1901.  In the studies of Western history made by the editor during the past ten years, two historians have been his inspiration: Francis Parkman,...

In recent years the circumpolar region has emerged as the key to understanding global climate change. The plight of the polar bear, resource extraction debates, indigenous self-determination, and competing definitions of sovereignty among Arctic nation-states have brought the northernmost part of...

Fury of a Marksman: The Mystery and Mayhem continues… Mitch's devastating case with Cally Walters left him shattered and he became MIA. He is trying to sort out what went wrong with his last assignment and is still in mourning. Mitch doesn't want to be found. He wants revenge. Jim...

Jasmine Roads hides from her gift she calls a curse. She has been secluded all her life until her grandmamma moves them to the city. A whole new world is opened up to her. Still she wants to go unnoticed, unseen. The day she helped her first spirit is the day her life unraveled. She now has to deal...