Samuel: 2879 books

Book cover of Stories South of the Sun
by Stella Samuel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019

Soak up the hot desert sun in this six-story collection of Stella Samuel's short pieces. STORIES SOUTH OF THE SUN is a cohesive collection showing Stella's work in children's fiction, new adult fiction, and more mature LGBTQ fiction. "I Lost You" is an awakening thought as a woman...
Book cover of Derricks of Destiny 2016 Edition
by Samuel G Bayne
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015

As a tribute to a legendary Irish-American businessman and philanthropist of the early 20th century, the 2016 Edition of Derricks of Destiny, celebrates one of the most remarkable eye-witness accounts of life in America, when the fledgling oil and banking industries wore younger clothes. Already a...
Book cover of Thirty Years from Home: A Seaman’s View of the War of 1812
by Samuel Leech
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Suppose you had a sailor who served honorably and well in two different navies—that were on opposite sides of the same war—and then wrote a book about it? Samuel Leech was once a young sailor in the Royal Navy. That's not terribly extraordinary, until you add… That he served aboard...
Book cover of Jefferson
by Samuel K. Padover
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1952

An abridged version of the classic biography of the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. This is a stirring portrait of an extraordinary American—Thomas Jefferson—third President of the United States, architect of freedom and democracy. He began his remarkable career as a lawyer, served in...
Book cover of Company Aytch
by Samuel R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999

Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War. Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal...
Book cover of The Motion of Light in Water

The Motion of Light in Water

Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

by Samuel R. Delany
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

This Hugo Award–winning memoir is “a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer” (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Neuromancer). With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the...
Book cover of Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015

Biographia Literaria, or in full Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of MY LITERARY LIFE and OPINIONS, is anautobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which he published in 1817, in two volumes. The work is long and seemingly loosely structured, and although...
Book cover of The Lives of the Poets
by Samuel Johnson, John Mullan
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities...
Book cover of Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris
by Samuel Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

As I am obliged to spend the greatest part of my time in mathematical, philosophical, and physical studies, it was not my design to have written on this subject, although I was advised to do it more than twelve months ago; but on seeing the movements in France, on account of the Revolution, I altered...
Book cover of The Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, A Quaker Kidnapped by Native Americans in 1725
by Samuel Bownas, Simon Webb
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014

'On the 27th of the sixth month, called August, 1725, my husband and all our men-servants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and guns, who had some time before been skulking about the fields, and watching an opportunity of our men’s absence, came furiously into the house...' ...
Book cover of The Rebbe

The Rebbe

The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

by Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010

From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that...
Book cover of Muscle

Muscle

Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder

by Samuel Wilson Fussell
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015

From skinny scholar to muscle-bound showman. “Easily the best memoir ever written about weight training, steroids and all” (Men’s Journal). When blue-blooded, storklike Samuel Wilson Fussell arrived in New York City fresh from the University of Oxford, the ethereal young graduate seemed...
Book cover of Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery, with a foreword by Roger Goodell
by Arthur Samuel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013

Communicate like a LEADER Research proves that the greatest impact speakers have in any conversation comes not only from the words they say but from the sound of their voices. In other words, it is not just the message but the messenger that matters. No one has a better grasp of this fact--and...
Book cover of Overcomplicated

Overcomplicated

Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

by Samuel Arbesman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016

Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators? After a thorough analysis by the top experts,...
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