Jeffrey: 3395 books
by Jeffrey Allen Zemler
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The strong relationship that historians have described between the South and the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century had its origins in the twenty-year period after the American Revolution when a group of far-sighted southerners, with James Madison in the forefront, worked to form...
Domesticating Slavery
The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning...
Square Mile of Murder
Horrific Glasgow Killings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Four of Britain's most notorious murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre around the turn of the last century. Madeleine Smith was accused and found 'Not Proven' of lacing her doomed lover's late night cocoa with arsenic; an 83-year-old woman was brutally battered to death;...
The Wizards Of Langley
Inside The Cia's Directorate Of Science And Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Jeffrey T. Richelson walks us down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA we have today. He tells a story of amazing...
Respectable and Disreputable
Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations -- military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic....
by Jeffrey McDaniel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Whether Jeffrey McDaniel is denouncing insomnia ("4,000 A.M."), exploring family tragedy ("Ghost Townhouse"), or celebrating love and lust ("The Biology of Numbers"), his writing is original and provocative. A noted poet, McDaniel has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and...
You Have the Power
Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Frances Moore Lappé-author of the million-selling Diet for a Small Planet-and Jeffrey Perkins offer the radical notion that our fears can be a source of energy to create the lives and the world we want.
Now more than ever, it seems, our lives and the lives of our loved ones are at risk. Our...
Burger Parties
Recipes from Sutter Home Winery's Build a Better Burger Contest: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Each year, thousands of cooks from coast to coast compete in Sutter Home Winery’s Build a Better Burger® Recipe Contest. Ten of these creative home chefs are flown to Napa Valley each September to participate in the BBB Cook-Off, frequently shown on Food Network Challenge. Burger Parties marks...
Kids Are Weird
And Other Observations from Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
As he's shown in his previous hugely popular books, Jeffrey Brown has a real gift for finding humor in quirky yet universal truths. Now the bestselling author of Darth Vader and Son and Vader's Little Princess brings his witty comic observations to terrestrial parenting in this perceptive book celebrating...
by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s was a harbinger of the innovations that transformed television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television and became the leading force in cable programming. Having interests...
by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What...
Never Stop on the Motorway
A Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer again conquers the short story form in the thrilling Never Stop on the Motorway. This classic story will have readers’ hearts racing along with single mother Diana, attempting to escape a dangerous van on the highway. However, the unplanned high-speed...
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Jeffrey Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves, As The Crow Flies, and Kane & Abel, now serves up this inventive new collection of a dozen short stories -- with a twist. Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously plotted story lines, each of the...
by Jeffrey Archer
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In Cheap at Half the Price, by#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of the short story Jeffrey Archer, the conniving Consuela Rosenheim hunts down her ideal birthday present – and next husband – in London. Will she accomplish her biggest swindle yet, or will she finally get her just...