Bruce: 4211 books
Law & Disorder
The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high....
by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Honeymoon Effect: A state of bliss, passion, energy, and health resulting from a huge love. Your life is so beautiful that you can’t wait to get up to start a new day and you thank the Universe that you are alive.
Think back on the most spectacular love affair of your life—the Big One...
Stern:
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1962, Bruce Jay Friedman’s acclaimed first fiction novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation.
“An...
A Mother's Kisses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy
Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not,...
Divine Honours for the Caesars
The First Christians' Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Though the first century a.d. saw the striking rise and expansion of Christianity throughout the vast Roman Empire, ancient historians have shown that an even stronger imperial cult spread far more rapidly at the same time. How did the early Jesus-followers cope with the all-pervasive culture of emperor...
An American Amnesia
How the US Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
January 27th, 1973: the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong sign the Paris Peace Accords, guaranteeing the right of self-determination to the South Vietnamese people.April 30th, 1975: President Duong Van Minh of South Vietnam announces the nation's unconditional surrender...
The Spreading Flame
The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginnings to Eighth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1958
This story of the early Christian church – from its infancy to the conversion of the English in about A.D. 800 – pictures a church that is an unquenchable spiritual force organized for tribulation. Its spiritual resources are never stronger than in times of seeming disaster. The book is divided into...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
The Fort Pillow Massacre
North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, was overwhelmed by a larger Confederate force under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest. While the battle was insignificant from a strategic standpoint, the...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
"A magnificent stylist . . . a first-rate historian. Familiarity with subject matter resulting from many years of study and narrative talents exceeding those of any other Civil War historian enable him to move along swiftly and smoothly and produce a story that is informative, dramatic, and absorbingly...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war—an epic struggle for freedom.
In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before—of two turning...
Abraham
A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts.
At a moment when the world is asking, “Can the religions get along?” one figure...
Frustrated Ambition
General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition...
by Bruce Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In the year 2092, Ted Williams, the greatest baseball hitter of all time, is brought back to life through the science of cryonics.Once again playing for the Red Sox, Williams finds himself trapped in a world he hardly recognizes: the corruption of the game he loves with über-juiced batters...