Mitchell: 2472 books
A Sea of Misadventures
Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters,...
by Mitchell Deaver
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Following Railway Boy and Railway Man Mitchell Deaver now describes in Transatlantic Railwayman his adventures as a former British Railways employee thrust into the midst of American railroading. Mitchell Deaver begins a new career in 1989 with the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, where he learns...
by Julian Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
As Far As You Can Go was Julian Mitchell's third novel, first published in 1963. Its protagonist is Harold Barlow, a young stockbroker, on his way up in the world - but easily bored, desiring adventure. He accepts a commission to travel to America; and the further west he goes, the more he discovers...
Peasants on the Edge
Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Throughout Latin America and the rest of the Third World, profound social problems are growing in response to burgeoning populations and unstable economic and political systems. In Peru, terrorist acts by the Shining Path guerilla movement are the most visible manifestation of social discontent, but...
HAPPINESS CALLING
A Practical Guide for Saying Yes to Life's Joy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Nature and nurture work together to create who we are – and we have the ability to develop the best life possible with what we’ve been given. In Happiness Calling, Victoria Mitchell helps you identify the roadblocks that hold you back, and ask why they have such power. In doing so you honor their...
The Limits of Liberalism
Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation...
R J Mitchell
The Story of How the Spitfire Was Designed, Built and Tested and How Close It Came to Not Happening At All
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The Spitfire began as a near disaster. The developments of this famous aircraft took it from uncompromising beginnings to become the legendary last memorial to a great man - and elegant and, with its pilots, a highly effective, weapon of war. The Spitfire would not have happened at all, however, without...
W.J.T. Mitchell
Den Wahnsinn sehen: psychische Störung, Medien und visuelle Kultur (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 083)
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In seinem Notizbuch untersucht Mitchell die visuelle Repräsentation von Wahnsinn im zeitgenössischen Kino. Die Inszenierung von Wahnsinn in Filmen aus dem 20. und 21. Jahrhundert wirft für ihn die Frage auf, ob es dem Kino in seiner Hypervisibilität gelungen ist, die Gesten des Wahnsinn spürbar...
Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class...
Scarlett
The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
**THE PHENOMENAL #1 BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO MARGARET MITCHELL'S GONE WITH THE WIND
"Alexandra Ripley is true to Scarlett's spirit and to Rhett's. Her sense of Mitchell's style is right on target." - Chicago Tribune**
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved...
Slade House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron...
by George Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would...
Secrets Can Be Murder
What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
Respected television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell asks a probing, disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us?
What kind of monster would do this? When journalists break the story of a child who's been kidnapped, a young...
Frozen in Time
An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.
On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days...