David Mccullough: 25 books
The Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough.
This monumental book is the...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
An intemperate general. An unpopular war. A military and diplomatic team in disarray.
Those are the challenges President Obama has faced as he attempts to make a success of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. They are also the challenges President Truman surmounted in the winter of 1950 as he...
In the Dark Streets Shineth (without images)
A 1941 Christmas Eve Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Christmas Eve, 1941. Mere days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met at the White House. As war raged throughout the world, the two leaders delivered a powerful message of hope that still resonates today. Bestselling...
The Course of Human Events
The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In this short speech, the master historian tracks the founding fathers’ and his own fascination with all things historical.
The Unending Mystery
A Journey Through Labyrinths ansd Mazes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
According to legend, anyone who wandered into the labyrinth in Ancient Crete never came out again. Some labyrinths may have offered patterns for an erotic spring dance. Those on the floors of Medieval cathedrals represent mathematical perfection–and walking their paths was a symbolic approach to...
Wars of the Irish Kings
A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough...
Cyborg City
What Happens When They Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Tales Of High Tech Terror!
"In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization" -- Nikola Tesla
"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor" -- Karl Marx
But...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
by Kale, David W., McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A music minister resigns from his church because several board members threaten to have him removed if he doesn't return to a traditional worship style. Several people stop tithing in protest when their church decides to spend money on a new gym rather than a new fellowship hall. As a church starts...
by Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, David B. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2001
What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health...
Emerging Towards Apostasy
A Documented Effective Analysis of Post-Modern, Evangelical, and Patristic Influences Upon Departing Churches of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Theres nothing new under the sun, the wise King Solomon once said. How true! Nineteen centuries after the Gnostics drove the early church into apostasy, history is repeating itself.
As was the case in the second century, many in the Lords body in the twenty-first century are trading reason...
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