Terry: 3838 books

Yucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended...

Speaking at West Point in 1962, Dean Acheson observed that Britain had lost an empire and had still to find a new role. This book explains why, in the following years, as Britain’s Labour government contemplated withdrawal from east of Suez, ministers came to see that Britain’s future role would...

“A surprising tale of success by medical science confronted with a nearly insurmountable disorder. Well-rounded, powerful, and inspirational.” —Kirkus Reviews   In the vein of Manic and Girl, Interrupted, and the popular stories of Oliver Sacks, Life in Rewind is the captivating...

Multiple Sclerosis, an Enigma was the first volume of the story of my unexpected diagnosis of RRMS (relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis) and the nightly injections that contributed to the end of my career. Told in first person point of view, the stories quickly engaged readers who had experienced...

The first book to look at the very best tailwater fisheries across the U.S. and Canada, from Terry & Wendy Gunn - fly-fishing icons, and owners and operators of Lees Ferry Anglers, on the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam.  Each chapter is written by an expert outfitter or guide for their featured...

Here Sir Terry Farrell, who has built an international career as an architect-planner, encourages other planners and architects to follow the biologists—look at, learn from, and, indeed, admire the nature of the forces that drive the change, and then with humility and respect work with them to nudge,...

Susie Monroe hides in an old house with her brother, Billy. Billy is a shadow man who wears many faces. But none of them are his.

An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience—the physical makeup of memory—and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug. Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist: malnourished, contentious,...

Lo sapevate? I gatti si dividono in gatti Finti e gatti Veri. I primi vivono nelle pubblicità, mangiano docilmente (o così pare) il cibo dalla scatoletta indicata e sono tranquilli come ologrammi; i secondi non si sa bene dove vivano (a casa vostra? Per strada? Dai vicini?), non si sa bene cosa...

The 3rd book in the series of the "come and read me book of poems". Yet again all the things that I have observed and experienced through the last 15 years or so of my life. Again another journey through the trials and riggers of life. Not every poem can suit ever-ones taste but there's...

Matthew has been discharged from the British Army after serving 22 years. He returns to Suffolk and the small country side town of Stowmarket, in which he grew up. At first he finds it hard to settle back into the life he once knew. Finding it hard to obtain employment with skills he had picked up while in the Army. However, a shock awaits him when it comes to finding himself a girl friend.

All of us would like to have things go our way: a good job, great health, and obedient children- basically, to have things run according to our plans. But what happens when things don't go our way? Well, normally, we complain-and sometimes direct our anger toward God. Even mature Christians are guilty...

Picture Book about penguins is a book with lots of great color photos and descriptions of different species of penguins. The book is useful for both children and adults who want to know more about these birds.

When the superannuated biblical Sarah learned that she would give birth to a son, she burst out laughing, and that son's name-Isaac-was forever a testimony to this moment of holy mirth. In The Mother of All Laughter: Sarah & the Genesis of Comedy, Terry Lindvall argues that there is a biblical...