Walter: 4352 books
Rope and Faggot
A Biography of Judge Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
In 1926, Walter White, then assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of an especially horrific triple lynching in Aiken, South Carolina. Aiken was White's forty-first lynching investigation in eight years. He returned to New York drained...
Final Verdict
What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
A new narrative of the famed case that finally solves its remaining mysteries, by the author of the bestselling Invitation to an Inquest
Walter and Miriam Schneir’s 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,...
Stanton
Lincoln's War Secretary
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
New York Times bestselling author Walter Stahr tells the story of Edwin Stanton, who served as Secretary of War in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. “This exhaustively researched, well-paced book should take its place as the new, standard biography of the ill-tempered man who helped to save the Union....
The Good Fight
A Life in Liberal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Former vice president Walter Mondale makes a passionate, timely argument for American liberalism in this revealing and momentous political memoir.
For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change—in civil rights,...
by Walter Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the...
by Walter Dean Myers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change...
Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
A Frontier Mission in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission Espritu Santo de Ziga was relocated from far south Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. This mission, along with a handful of others in south Texas, was established by the Spaniards in...
Harvard Classics Volume 39
Prefaces And Prologues
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. Prefaces and Epilogues, by William Caxton 2. Dedication Of The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin 3. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, by Nicolaus Copernicus 4. Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland, by John Knox 5. Prefatory Letter...
My Life with Cleopatra
The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million...
by Walter Pater
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Essays from The Guardian Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894)
This ebook presents «Essays from The Guardian», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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by Walter Benjamin, Gretel Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life.
The correspondence between Gretel...
Finding Your Way
Timeless and Usable Solutions for Any Leader
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Finding your way are down-to-earth lessons with practical solutions for aspiring and daring leaders.Walter Boston, Jr. in a riveting and humorous way, engages you in a learning adventure, that hubs around fundamentals guaranteed to help any leader in their time of uncertainty.He offers you proven...
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes (10 Books in One Volume)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy, Psychology of Revolution, The Analysis of the Ego...
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon) The Psychology of Revolution (Gustave Le Bon) Group Psychology and the Analysis of the...
by Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Volume I Walter Scott, scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world in the 19th century (1771-1832)
This ebook presents «The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Volume I», from Walter Scott. A dynamic table...