Barton: 958 books

Ao longo dos anos, Jean Taylor deixou de contar muitas coisas sobre o terrível crime que o marido era suspeito de ter cometido. Ela estava muito ocupada sendo a esposa perfeita, permanecendo ao lado do homem com quem casara enquanto convivia com os olhares acusadores e as ameaças anônimas. No entanto,...

Is Charles Manson Crazy Or Just A Good Actor? Nine people dead.  Charles Manson, as despicable of a figure as he has been portrayed, still draws reaction to his murderous mayhem to this day.  Much like the proverbial car wreck, we don’t want to see the ugliness inside, but yet...

Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general,...

Straight Dope is book that asks the simple question – why are drugs so entrenched in America's society. Instead of doing the same ol' rigamarole song and dance and interviewing talking heads and experts, Straight Dope gets to the heart of the matter and talks to the people at ground zero – the...

Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting...

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent--and HR Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments,...

Nowhere To Run The crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. No Place To Hide Chattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police....

An irreverent and often satirical armchair adventure about teaching English in mainland China. A woefully overeducated former lawyer and part-time university music lecturer and teacher goes to China for three separate academic years. There he experiences all the vagaries of academic life with Chinese...

“If cats had opposable thumbs, they would try to kill us all in our sleep with tiny pistols. They are evil little animals.” And so begins another year of observations from Amazon.com best-seller Barton Grover Howe. With more reflections on life from his “Beach Slapped” newspaper column, he’s...

On December 18, 1863, just north of Elizabeth City in rural northeastern North Carolina, a large group of white Union officers and black enlisted troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild executed a local citizen for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army...

Hosted by WallBuilders' founder David Barton, this private tour of America's Capitol reveals the spiritual significance of the structure's statues and artwork. This book offers an exclusive look at some of the most notable events in American history and provides information that will enrich self-guided tours of the Capitol. It is the perfect companion to our Spiritual Heritage DVD.

Throughout her history America has possessed a rich religious component largely comprised of different traditions of the Christian faith. This tide of personal religious devotion connected to government observances and policies has ebbed and flowed through time, but it has always been a part of American...

Un escueto párrafo en el periódico anuncia el hallazgo de unos restos antiguos de un bebé en una zona en construcción de Londres. Muy pocos lectores siquiera le echarán un vistazo. Para tres mujeres, sin embargo, la noticia es imposible de ignorar. Para la primera, es el recuerdo de lo peor que...

This file includes the complete text of "The Approach to Philosophy" by Ralph Barton Perry, "An Introduction to Philosophy" by George Stuart Fullerton, and "Initiation into Philosophy by Emile Faguet.