Craig: 3265 books
by Craig Mahler
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
If you are from New Orleans or wish you were, you will find yourself or someone you know in this collection of poems and short stories. Most are fiction, some are true and still others could be, but all will tear at your heart. Enjoy, cherish and tell a friend.
by Maggie Craig
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Edinburgh, Yuletide 1743, and Redcoat officer Robert Catto would rather be anywhere else on earth than Scotland. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard, he fears his covert mission to assess the strength of the Jacobite threat will force him to confront the past he...
Drive Like an Action Hero
One Boy’S Quest for Vehicular Awesomeness
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Drive like An Action Hero tells the story from the moment Craig passed his permit test to the life-changing accident and citation that forever altered his attitude toward driving. His tales of male bravado behind the wheel show the one area in his life he thought he was better than the law. After...
by Craig Hovey, Lisa Fisher, Rachel Boaz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Understanding America’s Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with US gun culture and the contemporary debate about the availability and use of guns. This edited volume is unique in that it draws on a wide variety of disciplines and presents perspectives...
Polls, Expectations, and Elections
TV News Making in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In modern American presidential campaigning, scholars and citizens have bemoaned the effects of electronic media on voters. Much has been written about the effects of television ads, media management, perceived bias, and other issues, yet one element of today’s media environment that most Americans...
Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
The Lawmakers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative...
Starving Jesus
Off the Pew, Into the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you have me no drink…It’s time to STOP STARVING JESUS.In other words…it’s time for Christians to get off their comfortable seats near the back of the sanctuary get out in the world. Authors Craig Gross and JR Mahon challenge fellow Christ-followers...
Agitating Images
Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and ’30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook...
by Craig B. Smith, Mark Lehner
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Going beyond even the expertise of archaeologists and historians, world-class engineer Craig B. Smith explores the planning and engineering behind the incredible Great Pyramid of Giza. How would the ancient Egyptians have developed their building plans, devised work schedules, managed laborers, solved...
by Craig Henson
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
What does a man want from a woman? Do you really know him? Is he hiding how he feels? Is he hiding what he needs from you? Why are men always so hard to communicate with? If you are tired of guessing games, learn how to play the game. How he thinks and what motivates him. Create an understanding of...
A Bosman Companion
from Abjaterskop to Zwingli
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Herman Charles Bosman is one of South Africa’s best-known authors and story-tellers, and his creation Oom Schalk Lourens, an old Boer farmer, is undoubtedly one of the best-loved characters in South African literature. This very handy reference work on all aspects of Bosman’s life and work consists...
A Punishment on the Nation
An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history
Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God’s punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through...
Speaking of India
Bridging the Communication Gap When Working with Indians
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
"Storti's cultural observations about India are spot on." - Ranjini Manian, CEO, Global Adjustments and author of Doing Business in India for Dummies
Westerners and Indians are working more closely together and in greater numbers than ever before. The opportunities are vast, but so...
The Mountains That Remade America
How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn’t) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose...