Philip: 4665 books

Book cover of Army of the Potomac
by Philip Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

For General George B. McClellan, the dejected Union troops who poured into Washington fresh from defeat at Bull Run on Monday 22 July, 1861, were to provide the raw material which he would train, equip, organise and ultimately transform from a mere mob into an effective fighting force. In October...
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The Spitfire

An Icon of the Skies

by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

The magnificent Vickers Supermarine Spitfire, together with its able partner the Hawker Hurricane, saved Britain from Nazi invasion in the summer of 1940 and irrevocably changed the course of the Second World War. This new book from Philip Kaplan celebrates one of history's most important weapons...
Book cover of Chambres froides
by Philip Kerr
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2012

Les méthodes de lutte contre la mafia sont-elles meilleures à Saint-Pétersbourg qu’à Moscou ? En tout cas, c’est pour apprendre celles d’un spécialiste, le colonel Grouchko, que le narrateur y est envoyé par ses supérieurs. À peine arrivé, un journaliste vedette très polémique, qui...
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The Night Stalker

The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

by Philip Carlo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

*“I couldn’t put the book down…very scary indeed.” —Los Angeles Times * The Classic Account Of One Of The World’s Most Feared Serial Killers Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic...
Book cover of The Third Time Travel MEGAPACK ®: 18 Classic Trips Through Time
by Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Richard Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015

Here is a selection of 18 jaunts through time, many of them rare tales from the pulps that we know you haven’t read before. Even if you're jaded with time-travel (Dinosaurs? Again?) you'll find something new in these pages. Included are: THE CHILDREN'S ROOM, by Raymond F. Jones SIDETRACK...
Book cover of To the Stars -- and Beyond: The Second Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
by Damien Broderick, John Glasby, James C. Glass
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011

In Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last...
Book cover of Chinese Among Others

Chinese Among Others

Emigration in Modern Times

by Philip A. Kuhn
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008

In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began...
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Laying Down the Sword

Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses

by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

Philip Jenkins delivers a fearless examination of the darkand violent verses of the Bible—and a call for us to read them anew in pursuitof a richer, more honest faith. From “one of America’s best scholars ofreligion” (The Economist), this daring exploration of the Scripture’smost difficult...
Book cover of Brassey's Air Combat Reader
by Philip Handleman; Walter J. Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005

Showcasing the twentieth centurys best writing on the topic of air combat from World War I through the Gulf War, Brasseys Air Combat Reader examines the evolution of air combat strategy and tactics. It includes extracts from memoirs by such legends as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hair-raising third-person...
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Bomber Pilot

A Memoir of World War II

by Philip Ardery
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

" Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost...
Book cover of The Sea Inside
by Philip Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

A yearlong adventure through the world’s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The Whale In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain’s Southampton Water...
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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

In Search of the Soul of the Sea

by Philip Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018

“Every day is an anxiety in my ways of getting to the water. . . . I’ve become so attuned to it, so scared of it, so in love with it that sometimes I can only think by the sea. It is the only place I feel at home.”   Many of us visit the sea. Admire it. Even profess to love it. But very few...
Book cover of American Transcendentalism
by Philip F. Gura
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008

The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the...
Book cover of American Covenant

American Covenant

A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present

by Philip Gorski
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019

The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story Was America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical...
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