Philip: 4665 books
Rx for Survival
Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
A New York Times reporter?s eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases
We face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world?s leading nations now...
by Philip Glahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
A playwright, poet, and activist, Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was known for his theory of the epic theater and his attempts to break down the division between high art and popular culture. He was also a committed Marxist who lived through two world wars and a global depression. Looking at Brecht’s...
Vergeven en vergeten
1957. Bernie Gunther wordt naar Athene gestuurd om een claim over een gezonken schip van een Duitser te onderzoeken
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 7, 2018
De nieuwe Bernie Gunther!
Liefhebbers van John Le Carré en Robert Harris houden ook van Philip Kerr
‘Behoort tot het beste wat er ooit op thrillergebied is verschenen!’ de Volkskrant
München, 1957. Na verschillende carrières in de loop der jaren werkt Bernie Gunther nu...
Dark Energy
Hitchcock's Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together. Born in 1899, four years after the first 'official' film showing in Paris, Hitchcock demonstrated an early fascination with the new art of the cinema. He entered the film industry in 1920, and by 1925, he had directed his first feature-length film,...
You Never Know
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Philip Zeid looks back at his adventures in the Royal Air Force and as a civilian in exotic places including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Liberia in this memoir that drives home a point: You Never Know.
For instance, when he was fifteen years old, his parents took him to an optometrist...
by Maryann Philip
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Check out the great reviews at http://www.amazon.com/A-Borgia-Daughter-Dies-ebook/product-reviews/B007WONQV2/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1.Setting: Italy during the high Renaissance, an age of new ideas, sexual license, corruption, sublime art, and genius. The history is...
Evelyn Waugh
A Life Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES
Fifty years after Evelyn Waugh’s death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted -- and fascinating -- writers of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited.
Graham Greene hailed...
Imperial General: The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis
The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging...
The Battle for France
Six Weeks That Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
After the long winter of the Phoney War the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler’s rampaging armies threw the World into crisis. Chamberlain’s Government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary Force was only saved by the miracle of...
by Philip Guedalla
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was the outstanding soldier of his age. He joined the army and rose rapidly to command a Division in India. After great military and administrative success, he was knighted on his return to England in 1805, and in 1809 this ‘sepoy general’...
Over the Wire
A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Philip Newman, a British army doctor left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick – and planning to escape.
After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive...
Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics
The Lovers, Dark Is the Sun, and Riders of the Purple Wage
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
From a multiple Hugo winner and Science Fiction Grand Master: Three mind-bending stories featuring future worlds, space travel, and aliens.
Author Philip José Farmer blasts into space, races into the future, and travels back in time in three astoundingly original and thrilling science fiction...
by Philip Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
The magisterial official life of Britain's complex and misunderstood former prime minister, which offers a fundamental reassessment of his reputation. Edward Heath was at the centre of British political life for much of the second half of the twentieth century. Entering the House of Commons in 1950,...
by Philip Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" -- not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and...