Williams: 7228 books
by Harry T. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Here are the characters and personalities of the three great Union generals, explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War. Mr. Williams is interested not only in military skills but in the temperament for command and, most of all, in moral courage....
by T. Harry Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams’ P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as “the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy’s always dramatic, often perplexing” general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of exotic Creole Louisiana origin, Beauregard...
Grey Wolf
The Escape of Adolf Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
DID HITLER--CODE NAME “GREY WOLF”--REALLY DIE IN 1945?GRIPPING NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED… When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, “No.” As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: “We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible...
Horace Greeley
Champion of American Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city’s ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune...
by Raymond Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Examining the gradual change that has shaped the political, economic, and cultural life of the 20th century, socialist thinker Raymond Williams offers interesting arguments that remain timely for contemporary readers. In this new edition of the classic text, Williams’ study of education and the...
Author Under Sail
The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London’s work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination...
Back to the Miracle Factory
Rock Etc. 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Paul Williams has been writing about pop music for decades, never flagging in his enthusiasm or his emotional and intellectual openness to the newest music. He has been doing this ever since he founded the rock magazine, Crawdaddy, in 1966. His insight into how it feels when we listen to certain performers...
by Amelia Williams, Melody Malone, Justin Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
With a new introduction by Amelia Williams, as well as a rare interview with the reclusive author, 'The Girl Who Never Grew Up'.
Summer Falls by Amelia Williams
In the seaside village of Watchcombe, young Kate is determined to make the most of her last week of summer holiday. But when...
Williams-Sonoma The Best of Thanksgiving
Recipes and inspration for a festive holiday meal
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Create the most memorable and inspired feast with this solution-oriented book. In these pages, you'll find over 80 recipes—from drinks and appetizers, to main dishes, sides, stuffings, gravies, and desserts—including traditional and contemporary favorites. Discover tips for organizing the meal, working...
Maritime Annapolis
A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
With fortunes that have ebbed and flowed with the tides, Annapolis has graced the banks of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay since the seventeenth century. Generations have worked the docks, sailed its waters and hunted for Chesapeake Gold--oysters--even as the city became home to a proud military...
Olga's Story
Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Throug h the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of the 20th century.
Born in remote Siberia in 1900, Olga Yunter was the youngest of five...
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Captain Favian Markham, USN, is a man surrounded by secrets. Secrets that will be revealed when he is court-martialed for losing his ship. Secrets held by his mistress Caroline. The secrets of enemy spies signaling to British ships over the horizon. And the greatest secret of the War of 1812, a secret...
Grace Hopper
Admiral of the Cyber Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
When grace Hooper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. Navy in 1986, she was the first woman restricted line officer to reach flag rank and, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy. A mathematician by training who became a computer scientist, the eccentric and outspoken...
Raymond Chandler
A Mysterious Something in the Light: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most...