Rowland: 331 books
by Tim Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Astonishing Events from the American Revolution That They Don’t Teach in School!
We all know about Washington’s crossing of the Delaware and Betsy Ross’s stitching together the Stars and Stripes, but how about a little-known, valid reason for the war itself and why General George was...
The Reality Test
Still relying on strategy?
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational...
What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?
The Memoir of an Accidental Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
At 17, Rowland Rivron had already fulfilled his ambitions as a professional drummer gigging in London’s West End. All that changed in the 1980s when he fell in with the new and anarchic ‘alternative comedians’. Alongside Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Alexei Sayle and others, he appeared in such...
It Seemed Like a Good Idea...
A Cautionary Guide to Avoiding 101 of Life's Potentially Most-Regrettable Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
It Is a Good Idea to Purchase This Book
If you think a neti pot for that stuffy nose is just what the doctor ordered, think again (choking on salt water and mucus is a horrible way to go).
If you indulge your midlife crisis by going whole-hog Harley, you may look darn good in those leathers...
Monster Within, The
Facing an Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Cynthia Rowland was an outwardly vivacious and successful television news reporter, who inwardly had slipped into the depths of bulimia. An addiction to binging and purging and heavy doses of laxatives finally landed her in treatment. The Monster Within tells the story of her descent into sickness,...
by Ingrid D. Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.
George B. McClellan and Civil War History
In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
A History Book Club Selection
Perhaps no other Union commander’s reputation has been the subject of as much controversy as George B. McClellan’s.
Thomas J. Rowland presents a framework in which early Civil War command can be viewed without direct comparison to that of the final two...
by Frederick Thomas Rowland Howard
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
There are many tales of soldiers fighting under the colours of an adopted nation; few stories are as fantastic as that of the Australian Frederick Howard. A keen sportsman and adept at the ways of the Australian “bush” the coming of the First World War gave him a jolt out of a meandering existence....
by Helen Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”
First published in 1922, this classic guide to the foibles of men is inspired, accurate and hilarious! Helen Rowland was an American humorist and journalist who had an unerring knack of getting to the crux of...
Breakfast with Socrates
An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would, and so with dry wit and marvelous invention,...
Romanticism and Childhood
The Infantilization of British Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in the rise of a vernacular literary tradition. In the Romantic period the child came...
Driving with Plato
The Meaning of Life's Milestones
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history’s greatest minds illuminate life’s turning points.
In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought the power of philosophy down...
Canada Lives Here
The Case for Public Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment...
Culture and the Thomist Tradition
After Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition examines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the twenty-first ecumenical...