Alan: 6649 books

Book cover of The Horse Lover

The Horse Lover

A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

by H. Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity then dropped...
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Disaster!

Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

by Alan A. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

By every measure, Hurricane Sandy was a disaster of epic proportions. The deadliest storm to strike the East Coast since Hurricane Diane in 1955, Sandy killed thirty-seven people and caused more than $30 billion in damages in 2012 to New Jersey alone. But earlier centuries experienced their own catastrophes.  In...
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The Europeans in Australia

Volume 3: Nation

by Alan Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

This, the third and final volume of a landmark, award-winning series, gives an account of Australia's settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the 18th century to the end of World War I. It also tells the...
Book cover of 冷思考:社群時代狂潮下,我們如何在衝突中活出自己,與他者共存
by 亞倫.傑考布斯(Alan Jacobs)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 29, 2018

#這世界太莫名我用思考求生 #思考不是一個人的事   ˙《巴黎評論》(Paris Review)編輯選書 ˙《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》、《大西洋月刊》、《出版者週刊》、《旗幟週刊》(The Weekly Standard)一致好評 《文化戰爭:為美國下定義的一場奮鬥》(Culture...
Book cover of Cop Tales
by Alan March
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014

Police work is often funny, sometimes scary, but always interesting. Cops share their stories with each other all the time, often over coffee, or over drinks after work. The tales cover the spectrum of humorous to deadly. Often, it is not what happens to the criminal or the citizen that makes the...
Book cover of Jerusalem
by Alan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our...
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A Sense of the Mysterious

Science and the Human Spirit

by Alan Lightman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2005

From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the mysteries of the scientific process--physics, astronomy, mathamatics--and exposes its beauty and intrigue. In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional...
Book cover of From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide
by Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide is a history of the critical campaigns of World War II that highlights the ôvisibleö turning point battles of the war in 1942 and 1943. By focusing not only on what happened but also on why, Alan LevineÆs in-depth approach to the subject questions whether...
Book cover of Audacity
by Alan Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018

Commander Cochrane Smith must battle through treacherous waters in this First World War naval thriller. Spring, 1918: Bolshevik Russia has withdrawn from the war and now stands isolated, ineffectually hostile to both Germany and the Allied Forces. The Russian fleet at Kronstadt remains highly vulnerable,...
Book cover of Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
by Alan Ereira, Terry Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009

Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants......
Book cover of Gettysburg, 1913: The Complete Novel of the Great Reunion
by Alan Simon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015

A USA Today Bestseller. July 1-3, 1863: The famed Battle of Gettysburg turns the tide of the Civil War, but not before approximately 50,000 soldiers from both sides become casualties during those three terrible days of carnage. June 29-July 4, 1913: To commemorate the 50th anniversary...
Book cover of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009

"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived in crisis. It...
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Voices of Protest

Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011

The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their...
Book cover of Bradley: A Biography
by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007

Alan Axelrod applies his signature insight and compelling prose to the life, strategy and legacy of the general who remains the model for all commanders today as the man who revolutionized the National Guard, shaped the US army's focus on the individual soldier, and emphasized cooperation and coordination...
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