Louis: 5538 books
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne was educated at the military school of Brienne in Champagne, where he met young Napoleon Bonaparte and became friends. Bourrienne became a diplomat, traveling to posts like Vienna and Leipzig, but he got back in touch with Napoleon by 1792 during the French Revolution....
From Aid to Trade
How Aid Organizations, Businesses, and Governments Can Work Together: Lessons Learned from Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Why do poor countries remain poor? Why, after receiving billions of dollars, do poor countries remain poor? Why are failing foreign aid models utilized over and over again? After the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, authors Daniel Jean-Louis and Jacqueline Klamer observed first-hand the negative...
The Republic of Gupta
A Story of State Capture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
What was Ajay Gupta doing on Thabo Mbeki's ‘secret’ advisory council? Did the Guptas play a role in Jacob Zuma's rise to power? How did the Guptas capture South African cricket? What is their interest in the controversial nuclear procurement deal? What influence have they had in the hiring and...
1831
Year of Eclipse
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2002
1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter way, swayed the course of our nation. 1831 was one of them, and in this striking new work, Louis Masur...
BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume)
Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This unique collection consists of the most influential memoirs - powerful & unflinching narratives of former slaves and stories of people who helped them; including records and letters which unfold all the hardship, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts to reach...
Inventing the Truth
The Art and Craft of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1998
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more.
For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill...
by Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll...
Beginner's Guide To Internet Income
Simple Tips and Ideas for successful Internet Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
For many Entrepreneurs already in the brick and mortar world, being able to marry your brick and mortar business with the online business is a match made in heaven. The rules of online business are quite different from the brick and mortar business world and for this reason everyone who endeavors...
Overworked, Overwhelmed, and Underpaid
Simple Steps to Go From Stress to Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Financial planning expert Louis Barajas teaches all professionals--from CEOs to front line employees--how to make the most of their lives. Now, in this desperately needed and insightful guide, he introduces his straightforward and proven plan to help you achieve financial freedom and go from stress...
Killer, Come Hither
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil.
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by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark—by authors from H. G. Wells to Willa Cather.
Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech “ghost hunters” running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare...
by Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling...
Green Washed
Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The message that our environment is in peril has filtered from environmental groups to theAmerican consciousness to our shopping carts. Every day, millions of Americans dutifully replace conventional produce with organic, swap Mr. Clean for Seventh Generation, and replace their bottled water with...
by Louis Shalako
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Jesus Christ has his own late-night talk show, where the emphasis is on fun and truthiness. Tonight's guests include The Magnificent Louis, author of 'De-Bunking the Sasquatch Myth,' as well as Chinese acrobats and a girl who can climb into a pickle jar. A short story.