H Miller: 169 books
by Larry H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
When he was sixteen years old, Larry Miller came home one summer night to find all his possessions sitting in three bags on the porch of his darkened house. The door was locked. From those troubled and humble beginnings rose a man whose influence has touched, according to reliable pollsters, more than...
A Crude Look at the Whole
The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges
Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably...
Nut Country
Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who...
by William H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Disaster at sea has been a part of maritime life for as long as man has sailed the seas. Whether it be the tragic real-life tale of the Titanic or the fictional wreck of the Hesperus, we have long been captivated and enthralled by the mysteries and perils of the ocean. In this fascinating book, William...
by Danny W. Scott, DVM, DACVD
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Diagnose, treat, and manage equine skin disorders with the most comprehensive reference available! With 900 full-color photos, Equine Dermatology covers skin diseases ranging from those that merely annoy the horse to others that interfere with the horse's ability to function in riding, working, or...
The Burdens of Perfection
On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its...
Med School Confidential
A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Med School Confidential from Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell uses the same chronological format and mentor-based system that have made Law School Confidential and Business School Confidential such treasured and popular guides. It takes the reader step-by-step through the entire med school process--from...
The Last Atlantic Liners
Getting There is Half the Fun
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
It was a golden age of travel. The period from the end of the Second World War to the early 1960s saw some of the finest ocean liners ever built and, until the advent of the jet, the ships travelled full every trip, criss-crossing the Atlantic between the Old World and the New, carrying businessmen,...
by William H. Miller, Anton Logvinenko
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Golden Age of liner travel was from the early 1900s to the 1950s, a period dominated by black-and-white photography, with few colour views. William H. Miller and Anton Logvinenko show off colour views of the magnificent ships, from the Mauretania and Lusitania to the Queen Mary, as well as the...
Closing the Circle
A Memoir of Cuba, Exile, the Bay of Pigs and a Trans-Island Bike Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Closing the Circle: A Memoir of Cuba, Exile, the Bay of Pigs and a Trans-Island Bike Journey is a family memoir in three parts intricately interwoven with historical events. The book is structured in 3 parts, somewhat akin to John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, where each part, though quite separate,...
Law School Confidential
A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
I WISH I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW!
Don't get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience—read this book!
Written by students, for students, Law...
Gateway to the World
The Port of New York in Colour Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North America. However, its real expansion came in the nineteenth century when increasing industrialisation and the development of canals and then railways caused...
by William H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The early 1930s could not have been worse for shipping. With the coming of the Depression, the North Atlantic had grown very short of its most precious commodity: passengers. Ships began to sail half-full, and sometimes even emptier, and future prospects were bleak. Both Cunard and its nearest rival,...
by William H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Founded in 1873, the Holland America Line provided services carrying passengers and freight between the Netherlands and North America. When the Second World War ended, only nine of Holland America Line’s twenty-five ships had survived and the company set about rebuilding. The pride of HAL’s post-war...