Staples: 140 books
Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era
The British Colonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress...
The Wellness Diaries
My Journey out of Mental Illness Through Nutrition and Lifestyle Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The Wellness Diaries takes readers on a unique roller coaster journey through the eyes of a paranoid college student while battling mental illness, to the darkness of planning suicide, to a remarkable recovery.
It offers an account of the authors experience of mental illness-early symptoms,...
The Magnificent Chicken
Portraits of the Fairest Fowl
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
With backyard chicken keeping and urban farming at an all-time high, the proudest of purebred poultry take center stage once again in this fully revised and expanded edition of the classic The Fairest Fowl, now retitled The Magnificent Chicken. Updated with even more chickens and an enlarged resource...
by Bruce Staples
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Yellowstone National Park is one of the most crowded parks in the country, and for good reason: breathtaking scenery, amazing wildlife, and for anglers, great fishing. Yet, even a short hike from the road or trailhead into the backcountry of the park and the surrounding area can put anglers into even...
by Erik Velásquez García, Enrique Nalda, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Esta obra sigue los pasos de la Historia general de México, publicada por vez primera en 1976 bajo la dirección de Daniel Cosío Villegas, pero es a la vez una renovación completa de aquel proyecto original como resultado de los cambios sustanciales que ha sufrido el panorama historiográfico en...
by Bruce Staples
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The essential reference for fly fishing the Rocky Mountain West, Flies for the Greater Yellowstone Area compiles more than 500 fly patterns for nymphs, dry flies, emergers, and streamers.
by Mary Jane Staples
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The big event of the Walworth year was to be the wedding of Sammy Adams, King of Camberwell, to Miss Susie Brown. Everyone was looking forward to it, and Susie was particularly overjoyed when her soldier brother suddenly turned up on leave from service in India in time for the approaching 'knees-up'....
by Mary Jane Staples
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Everyone liked Sergeant Joe. From the huge jolly Beavis family with whom he had lodgings in Newington Butts, to Mr George Singleton, Charing Cross Road bookseller, who employed Joe in a little lucrative and harmless forgery, Sergeant Joe was a univeral favourite. Quite a few people wondered why he...
by Mary Jane Staples
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
It is 1918; the Kaiser's empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips, a prisoner of war in a Romanian hospital, has had a very hard time of it. Then, out of the blue, comes an offer he can't refuse, a ticket home to his beloved England and to the arms of his much missed fiancée Elizabeth.
But...
Year Of Victory
An Adams Family Saga Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The seemingly endless war was at last coming to a conclusion. But for the country and for the Adams family, there were still many tribulations to be overcome. Flying bombs - the deadly V1 buzzbombs - appeared over London, causing dreadful destruction, and the struggle continued to overcome the most...
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Este título tiene en común con otras obras de Lewis el hecho de ser un libro arrojado y valiente, sutil y que expresa lo trascendente con gran claridad. La mejor cualidad de Lewis -su maestría para armonizar sencillez y rigor, transparencia y precisión-se pone en esta colección de ensayos, al...
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017
El dolor es un misterio universal e inevitable que sobrecoge y desconcierta al ser humano. Con frecuencia se proponen fórmulas más o menos anestésicas -resignación pasiva, escapismo, anulación de la voluntad-, pero que en ningún caso resuelven las preguntas que todo hombre se hace: ¿Qué sentido...
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Ante la insistencia de sus lectores para que creara una segunda parte de su famosa obra Cartas del diablo a su sobrino, Lewis escribió este libro. Con su lucidez y calidad de pensamiento habitual, el autor nos ofrece un conjunto de ensayos vivos y cercanos, en los que se combinan el ingenio y la...
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Hablar de lo eterno, sin caretas, sin disimulos, sin trampas, esa es la tarea a la que se entrega Lewis en este libro sustancioso. Y para ello utiliza muy distintos medios: un coloquio, un debate, una conversación entre amigos, un artículo de prensa, una carta… Toda ocasión es buena para dar...