Craig: 3265 books
by Bowen Craig
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Talking pancreases, fake superhero trials , God-like insurance salesmen, teenaged congressgirls, bovine genealogists, sausage lore, the forgotten history of the American canine electorate, and gynecological street gangs all guest star in this ode to the vortex of weird that we call twenty-first century...
Philip Vera Cruz
A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera...
The Light in the City
Why Christians Must Advance and Not Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2000
The numerous legal, moral, and social threats on the horizon in America have caused many Christians to wonder whether they can truly make a difference. Contrary to some current voices that have called for retreat, Janet and Craig Parshall explain why Christians must engage the culture as never before...
Mary Ball Washington
The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
The Mother of the Father of our Country.
Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history’s most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington’s first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother.
Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington...
A Cruel Arithmetic
Inside the Case Against Polygamy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
For thirty years, lawyers, pundits, professors, and politicians had said that section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canadathe criminal prohibition of polygamywas unconstitutional, a Victorian anachronism that, in a modern rights-based democracy, deserved to be swept aside in the name of individual liberty...
Midair
An Epic Tale of Survival and a Mission That Might Have Ended the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation – a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War.
Authored by Craig K. Collins, the...
by Craig Storti
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Transform the reentry experience from a struggle to an art
Expecting that the home will be the way it was when you left? Are you instead shocked to discover that both you and home have changed? The Art of Coming Home offers the solid advice you need to reduce the stress of making the transition...
Life at the Speed of Light
From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
“Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands.” —Publishers Weekly
On May 20, 2010, headlines around the world announced one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in modern science: the creation of the world’s first synthetic lifeform. In Life at...
Simply Electrifying
The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Selected for J.P. Morgan's 2018 Holiday Reading List
Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones. Without television. Without sprawling cities. Without the freedom to continue working and playing after the sun goes down.
Electricity is at the core of all modern...
by Craig Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The untold story of an eccentric, scientific visionary whose death-defying research has saved millions of lives.
Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air force doctor’s research on seatbelts...
by Dr Stephen McKenzie & Dr Craig Hassed
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Described simply, mindfulness is the art of directing our attention to what is (reality) rather than what isnt (our ideas of reality). With a little practice, anyone can do it, and the benefits are profound, leading to: an increased sense of happiness and wellbeing; increased clarity of mind; increased...
The Animal Dialogues
Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.
Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching...
Apocalyptic Planet
Field Guide to the Future of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure...
by Prof. Campbell Craig, Prof. Sergey S Radchenko
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III.
In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and...