Derek: 1655 books
by Derek Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous.
But...
by Derek Walcott
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart
"Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;
my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found
its image again, a hound in astounding light."
Tiepolo's...
Unvarnishing Reality
Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode...
by Derek Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
When King Charles II was dying, the name of only one of his many mistresses was in his mind and on his lips: that of Nell Gwyn. Born in extreme poverty, forced to become a child prostitute, she went on the stage and became the most popular actress of the time until Charles took her into his bed, where...
by Derek Jameson, Ellen Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This is the true story of a remarkable life-and a death deferred. At the heart of Siobhan's Miracle is a Belfast girl from a working class family who grew up to become a university professor and world-renowned authority on English and Irish literature. As millions celebrated the millennium, Siobhan...
by Derek Ralston
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
So you want to learn to have lucid dreams? You're starting in the right place. Lucid dreams can be used for fun, to help you solve your problems creatively, and as a source of self knowledge and personal growth. I've put together this free starter handbook to give you the basics.
This handbook...
by Derek Baines
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Taking us across culture and landscapes and evoking other states, Derek Baines’s new collection touches raw nerves and brings humour to some of our most challenging experiences. A lone traveller enjoys hospitality at an ancient Japanese inn, an insomniac artist produces a masterwork from his subconscious,...
Fayke Newes
The Media vs the Mighty, From Henry VIII to Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
"Fake news." "Psycho." "Enemy of the people." The insults President Donald Trump and the media hurl at each other are, in fact, nothing new. Over many centuries, journalists have accused governments of being "horrible monsters," with "guilty consciences,"...
Chocolate City
A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national...
by Derek Clendening
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Tyler and Jamal are mortal enemies at the bowling alley except for one problem—Tyler totally has a crush on Jamal. As teammates, they know that they are better together than they are apart, but they still make a bet that will boot one of them off of the team. Only when they are apart can Tyler and Jamal express and pursue their feelings for each other.
Hitler's Generals in America
Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the American POW experience in Nazi camps. Less is...
Why 1914?
The Causes of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Short, brisk and highly readable, this account stands out from the flood of books written for the Centenary of the Great War.
In Why 1914?, Derek Robinson - trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize - applies his novelist's skills to asking how and why Europe hurried into such...
America Between the Wars
From 11/9 to 9/11; The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity-until they ended abruptly with a stunning catastrophe on September 11, 2001.
In America Between...
The Gangbanger's Dictionary
One Hundred and Eighty Seven Things You Better Know Before You Join a Gang
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book was written to show the journey of a former gang leader and crime boss named Derek Grover, street name D-Man, from being just another kid in the hood through his journey of becoming one of the most powerful street gang leaders in Southeast San Diego.
The book...