Philip: 4665 books

A RAF pilot’s view of the Cold War, which conveys the excitement, danger and comedy of flying during that momentous historic period. Crafted to satisfy all aviation enthusiasts, novice and professional alike The Cold War is the hot topic of the moment. This book covers 28 years of patrolling the...

The novel is about the relations between fathers and sons. It is a largely metaphorical work, projecting these relations on to an imaginary landscape in an attempt to display how sons are influenced by their fathers and what they do under that influence. The story is about a prince, whose father,...

Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the...

Were Atlantis and Lemuria factual places? Who built the pyramids and for what purpose? How advanced was the technology of ancient cultures? All this and more is covered in Exposed, Uncovered, & Declassified: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past—the latest in the all-original series...

Your buddy is a nanoscale robot named ANAD. Your enemy is a programmable virus named Serengeti. The Red Hammer cartel has created an addictive antidote to a man-made pandemic Looks like Quantum Corps has its hands full again. Lieutenant John Winger leads his beleaguered nanotroopers into combat, on...

Johnny Winger has just lost his mother in a terrible accident. His father was gravely injured. Watching the hospital techs work with medbots inside his Dad to repair the injuries, Winger is intrigued. A sympathetic tech lets him try it out. He seems to be a natural at operating nanoscale bots. The...

Nick Wolf is a public research specialist for NorthAm Oil Company, but he likes to think of himself as the company storyteller. Nick, who believes in the old-fashioned integrity of the people who run NorthAm, is sent to scout potential oil exploration/drilling sites to assess the political climate....

Six thousand lightyears from Earth, the star-sun Sigma Albeth B has gone supernova. Five worlds were destroyed, including Seome. Millions died but twenty thousand survived, escaping through the Farpool to the oceans of Earth. Chase and Angie find themselves in the midst of unending conflict, between...

Henry Harris, an army doctor, is startled when a solider returns from a mission on an asteroid claiming to be a plant. When several more men return from the same asteroid also claiming to be plants, Harris travels to the asteroid himself to investigate the strange phenomenon. Philip K. Dick...

Stockholm, December 1999. Madam Zoia, the enigmatic "painter on gold," is dead. The last surviving member of the Romanov court, she leaves behind a house full of paintings, a collection of private papers, and a mystery. Marcus Elliot travels to Sweden to write the catalog that will accompany...

Peter Lacey has been obliged to abandon his life as peripatetic researcher into the more obscure areas of Utopianism. Now, he works as a temporary credit controller in various companies in London. One day, while en route to a routine business meeting, he and an associate pick up a hitch-hiker and...

Discover the wartime experiences of the bomber boys in World War II. Flying bombers during World War II was a harrowing ordeal. Unlike the fighter jocks, who pit their skill and wits against each other in agile aerial combat, the bomber boys had to endure the fear and savagery of the air war...

Directed by the U.S. War Department in 1859 to prepare a new, revised manual for U.S. cavalry operations, then-Col. Philip St. George Cooke produced this book after extensive research of cavalry tactics used by the advanced nations in Europe, where he had been an observer in the Crimean War (1854-1856)....

February, 1896. A prominent attorney and his eight-year-old son disappear near the White Sands of New Mexico, presumed murdered. Seven years later, during a traditional rite of passage, a young Native American experiences visions that unlock the staggering truth about his heritage. These revelations...