Fred: 2346 books

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled...

«Detesto hablar del calibre del proyectil, hacer el análisis del arma del delito: lo que para mí es importante es quién ha disparado y por qué.» Fred Vargas «La obra de Vargas es un cocktail de tensión, talento y humor diabólico.» Elle Claudio, Tiberio y Nerón son tres estudiantes...

«La obra de Vargas es un cocktail de tensión, talento y humor diabólico.» Elle «No habrá lector que no se rinda a sus hechizos, que no se ría, que no se emocione, que no se asombre con cuantos dichos y hechos pasan en Huye rápido, vete lejos, esta deliciosa e inteligente historia de...

Fred Vargas juega sus mejores cartas en una novela policiaca de arquitectura clásica y perfecta, que transcurre entre París y la nieve de Quebec. El comisario Adamsberg se dispone a cruzar el Atlántico para instruirse en unas nuevas técnicas de investigación que están desarrollando sus colegas...

It's the inside scoop on US military special operations. From weapons, gear, missions, and commandos, learn every military secret from the eighteenth century to today. Few aspects of the US military pique people's interest more than special ops. Due to the clandestine nature of their missions, weapons,...

Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in the development of modern medicine. Most joined the NHS on the ‘Appointed Day’ (5 July 1948) but, as medical treatments improved and financial budgets became increasingly stringent, many were considered redundant...

Acclaimed novelist, playwright, and poet Fred D’Aguiar has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize in poetry for Bill of Rights, his narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre, and won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory. In this beautifully imagined work of literary fiction,...

In this eloquent and impassioned book, defense expert Fred Iklé predicts a revolution in national security that few strategists have grasped; fewer still are mindful of its historic roots. We are preoccupied with suicide bombers, jihadist terrorists, and rogue nations producing nuclear weapons, but...

Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to crossover with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news coverage...

In this autobiography of a Christian minister, Fred R. Zimmerman tells the story of his life on the stage of world events that affected him either directly or indirectly. Born to be a minister, he first became aware of his calling early on in his boyhood. Orphaned at eighteen months during the flu...

Linda Abernathy of the Arkansas Times exclaims, “Homemade lemonade tastes like sun sparkling across a lake on a summer morning. Compared to its fresh, natural lemon flavor, the instant stuff might as well be lemon-flavored dishwater.” Lemonade is as American as apple pie. In Lemonade, Fred Thompson...

First published in 1908. Frederick Merrick White, who wrote as Fred M White, was the author of a number of novels and short stories including the six "Doom of London" science-fiction stories in which a number of catastrophes beset the city.

Settle in for a wild, thrill-a-minute ride with Fred M. White's The Mystery of the Four Fingers. Far underground in a gold mine in Mexico, a death occurs under very unusual circumstances. A group of amateur detectives decides to try their hand at solving the case -- unwittingly putting their own lives at risk. Will this interlocking set of crimes ever be solved?

Fred M. White shows the difficult times of Israel. The streets were quiet, but it was the hunger. People tried to work with all their strength, but they were powerless and tried to show it with a soldier. The reader can not only learn the history of Israel, but also feel all this horror.