Gordon: 4430 books
by Seton Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
One of Seton Gordon's greatest works concentrates on the Hebrides of Scotland in the post-First World War years as the islands tried to regain their composure and re-establish their social order. Gordon's prose recounts not only the way of life of the people but also the wildlife and wilderness in...
Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
The Myths of Churchill's War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame
Gordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic narrative that exposes just...
Toussaintâ??s Clause
The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810,...
by Samuel Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
"Quiet Talks on Service" is the third volume as part of a series that looks at the elements of the Christian life in the way of service, power, prayer, and living. Gordon explores the need for spiritual discipline in the Christian walk. Gordon, who served as the assistant secretary of the YMCA in...
Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, The Queer Little Baker Man, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, A Turkey for the Stuffing...
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...
Leap of Faith
An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
“An exciting insider’s look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA’s internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls” by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly).
Gordon “Gordo” Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, pilot for Apollo X, head...
by Gordon Stables, Charles Whymper, Illustrator
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Off to Klondyke or A Cowboy's Rush to the Gold Fields is by Gordon Stables, who knows exactly kind of adventures that the boys best like to about and that give them benefit and not harm. It relates the experiences of some English men and women, girls and boys, who have a hard time in getting to the...
by Stewart Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the...
by FRED GORDON
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Mr Fred Gordon, a man who was born into a two-parent family, decided early in life, that the streets accepted him
more than his father. His father was a disciplinarian, very rough so to get away from that he found comfort in the streets.
He began dating at an early age,...
by Gordon Lish
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, "There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it." Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret—real or imagined—unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in...
by Leslie A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
“This fabulous debut novel is written in the style of Jodi Picoult." Chicklit Club Cheer is "a strong, well-written story with characters who deserve to be heard" and "a testament to the strength of the human condition." Chick Lit Central "I was absolutely totally...
by Gordon Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Following on the success of Veld to Fork, Gordon Wright’s first book, Karoo Food is bigger, better and tastier than ever, with more recipes, stories and anecdotes about life and food in the Karoo. Once again Gordon takes you on a Slow Food journey, via your taste buds, to foodie nirvana. Tracing...
by Robert Gordon Latham
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A Handbook of the English Language Robert Gordon Latham, english ethnologist and philologist (1812-1888)
This ebook presents «A Handbook of the English Language», from Robert Gordon Latham. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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Invisible Agents
Spirits in a Central African History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits...