Powell: 1221 books
We Own This Game
A Season in the Adult World of Youth Football
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald).
Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams...
by Steve Powell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Alan Steele Nicholson, Former Press Officer - US Senator Jacob Javitz, New York
"Brilliant and timely political who-done-it. Having been a press officer for a US Senator for a number of years, I’ve had a front row seat to the inter workings of Capital Hill. To my mind, Powell has masterfully...
All You Need to Be Impossibly French
A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful.
With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate...
Why You Love Music
From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
Manhood, Race, and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examination—and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscape—is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive.”
—Michael Eric Dyson
“Kevin...
Bully Boy
The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
What Hath TR Wrought?
“I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore Roosevelt
The notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But...
Greatest Emancipations
How the West Abolished Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted...
by Baden-Powell, Robert
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
According to Wikipedia: "Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, (22 February 1857 8 January 1941)..., was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement.... Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance...
Assassination!
The Brick Chronicle of Attempts on the Lives of Twelve US Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Creator of the bestselling The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament and The Brick Bible: The New Testament, author Brendan Powell Smith offers a new take on American history. For more than a decade, Smith has honed his masterful work using LEGO(R) to re-create scenes from the Bible. Now, he...
by Manushag N. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals by Manushag N. Powell embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass-market author as a literary character. Powell...
by Talmage Powell, Fletcher Flora, Robert Moore Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Here for your reading delectation are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional...
The New Machiavelli
How to Wield Power in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing...
My Tour in Hell
A Marine's Battle with Combat Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he...
UFOs and Government
A Historical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century. How and why they did so is the subject of UFOs and Government, a history that for the first time tells the story from the perspective of the governments themselves. It’s a perspective that reveals...