Curtis: 1287 books
Too Close to the Sun
Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather's inauguration. The country's First Grandchildren,” a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as Sistie and Buzzie.”
In this rich memoir, Roosevelt brings...
Singapore
Unlikely Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed...
by Howard D. Curtis, Ph.D., Purdue University
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Written by Howard Curtis, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle University, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students is a crucial text for students of aerospace engineering. Now in its 3e, the book has been brought up-to-date with new topics, key terms, homework exercises, and fully...
The Cave Painters
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells...
Secrets from the Operating Room
My Experiences, Observations, and Reflections as a Surgical Salesman
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Every year, one out of every ten people will need to have a surgical procedure. The majority of those needing surgery know nothing about the operating room or surgery. In Secrets from the Operating Room, author Curtis M. Chaudoin provides objective information and strategies to help improve the state...
by Curtis Pesmen
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In MY CANCER YEAR, Curtis Pesmen, a veteran health journalist and book author, chronicles his successful fight with advanced colon cancer in a brutally honest and illuminating memoir. Through this moving account--which takes the reader through his initial shock of diagnosis, through treatment, experimental...
The Shape of Spectatorship
Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as...
The Right Place at the Right Time
Stories from a Life in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This inspiring memoir by a lifelong educator is for the young, teens, older adults, alumni, and parents. While attending school he helped defray college costs with part time temporary jobs such as: a stone-quarry driver, railroad worker, candy factory employee, and soldier. Six years after starting...
by Curtis Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Wendy Jarrett never thought she'd meet the man of her dreams at a funeral. But when an old boyfriend of her mother's dies, Wendy accompanies her to the seaside resort of Cape May, New Jersey for the service. There she meets Adam Lewis, nephew of the deceased, who is tall, gorgeous, and available.
Everything...
by WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Modern India
BY WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS
[ZHINGOORA BOOKS]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Eye of India
II. The City of Bombay
III. Servants, Hotels, and Cave Temples
IV. The Empire of India
V. Two Hindu Weddings
VI. The Religions of India
VII....
Men of Sunday
How Faith Guides the Players, Coaches, and Wives of the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Step into the locker rooms and living rooms of NFL players and their families to see how a close relationship with God guides football's biggest stars.
In a behind-the-scenes, off-the-field glimpse into one of America's most beloved sports, Men of Sunday reveals how Sunday's greatest rely on...
by Finbarr Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable...
by Kate Nugent Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
100 lessons from athletes to give you power, confidence and fortitude at work! From athletic competition to corporate success, Six-Word Lessons for Strength-Based Business Success brings you 100 tips that are borrowed from athletes and applied to business. Translating the principles used by elite...
To Hell or Monto
The Story of Dublin's Two Most Notorious Red-Lights Districts
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts, not only in Ireland but in all of Europe, could be found on the streets of Dublin. Though the name of Monto has endured long in folk memory, the area known as Hell was equally notorious, feared, and renowned in its day. In his new work,...