Thomas B : 439 books

Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between...

Georg Hornberger - geachteter Theologe, Prälat und Ehrenbürger seines oberpfälzer Heimatortes - wird brutal ermordet aufgefunden. Nicht nur die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel. Die angehende Journalistin Gerti Zimmermann, die ein Volontariat bei der Heimatzeitung absolviert, beginnt zu recherchieren....

Immer mehr Menschen leiden an Übergewicht, Depressionen, Suchtkrankheiten. Viele stellen die Karriere an erste Stelle oder denken über künstliche Befruchtung nach. Welche Auswirkungen hat dieser Lebensstil auf den Gen-Code der Menschheit - und letztlich auf den Verlauf der Evolution? Unsere heutigen...

So spannend wie die erste Seite eines neuen Romans ist die erste Minute eines Lesekreistreffens. Hat jemand eine lebenswichtige Weisheit entdeckt? Banalen Blödsinn? Oder eine wunderbare Stelle? Thomas Böhm erläutert, wie man die Lesekreisfreunde und die lesenswertesten Bücher findet. Wie sich...

Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between...

"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini "Gripping, realistic, and compelling." -- Chicago Sunday Tribune It started with murder and ended with murder. Along the way there were muggings and dope and stolen cars and other assorted violences that might...

Nobody knew the trouble she'd been in -- until it caught up with her. And then it was murder! "Mac is one of our best private eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini "Mac has been called one of the most believable...

"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini The naked lady was very beautiful and very dead. The police found that she had circled Mac's name in her phone book -- yet Mac couldn't remember her! What's a poor investigator to do -- but...

From historian Thomas B. Allen, author of Remember Pearl Harbor and George Washington, Spy Master comes a sweeping, dramatic history of the Americans who fought alongside the British on the losing side of the American Revolution. Allen’s compelling account comprises an epic story with a personal...

THE THREE EDWARDS, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave his country Edward III, who ruled gloriously, if violently.

Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. NavyÆs nuclear propulsion program and revived his career,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Old Pike - A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, - and Anecdotes thereon. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new...

Buoyed by his remarkable extended family, Thomas B. Hargrave, Jr., came of age during the turbulent decades of the Great Depression and World War II. He attended nine segregated public schools, served in a segregated Air Force, and ultimately graduated from college in 1951. He confronted the barriers...

"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini "A neatly contrived and lively mixture of fast action and sex!" -- The New York Times Doll Baby just sat there, blinking her long black lashes and drawing on her long white...