Philip: 4665 books
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
by Philip Ball
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into...
Our Better Nature
Environment and the Making of San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends....
by Philip K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”
What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.
Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive....
by Philip Hasheider
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Fluffy white sheep dotting green fields have been a part of the American landscape for centuries.And these days, this picture is more and more often a part of the small farms that have always been at the heart of country life.If you’ve ever envisioned sheep in your own pasture--one or two hobby...
Constantinople
City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family.
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love...
The Hanging Stranger
Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
When Ed Loyce heads to work at his TV repair shop, he is startled to find the dead body of a complete stranger hanging from a lamp post outside. But when he calls attention to the morbid display, the strange reactions of his friends and neighbours bring him to a disturbing realization.
Philip...
by Philip P. Massaro
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Reload your own!
Drawing from decades of experience, author Philip Massaro provides detailed instructions to help you successfully reload your own rifle and pistol ammunition.
Inside this practical guide:
Step-by-step instructions describe how to reload rifle and pistol ammunition...
The Lost Civilization Enigma
A New Inquiry Into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Are history books giving us the whole story? Or is civilization far more complex and for older than we have been taught?
Our school textbooks barely mention the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, yet the latest archaeological findings at sites such as Jericho and, most recently, Gobekli...
Dread
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.
As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts...
Diagnosing Giants
Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar...
Metropolis
Berlijn, 1928. In de nadagen van de Weimarrepubliek onderzoekt de jonge Bernie Gunther een reeks moorden. Iemand lijkt de straten van de Berlijn te willen zuiveren. Tegen elke prijs. ook los te lezen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 14, 2019
De veertiende en allerlaatste thriller met de onvergetelijke Bernie Gunther in de hoofdrol
Berlijn, 1928, de nadagen van de Weimarrepubliek kort voordat Hitler en de nazi’s aan de macht komen. Bernard Weiss, hoofd van de Berlijnse Kriminalpolizei, vraagt de jonge rechercheur Bernie Gunther...
by Philip Tether
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. This is the fourth in a series of texts on government and politics designed for students and the general reader (see author's other publications or a full list of titles). All the books interlink and cross-reference but are designed to stand alone. This fourth text continues the...
by Philip Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
It is now 80 years since Mussolini's Fascism came to power in Italy, but the political heirs of the original Fascism are part of government in today's Italy. The resurgence of neo-fascist and neo-Nazi extremism all over Europe are a reminder of the continuing place of fascism in contemporary European...