Williams: 7228 books
Ted Williams, My Father
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In this poignant memoir, Claudia Williams, the last surviving child of legendary Boston Red Sox great and Hall of Famer Ted Williams, tells her father’s story, including never-before-told anecdotes about his life on and off the field that reveal the flesh and blood man behind “The Kid.”
Born...
by Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1999
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since...
Losing My Cool
Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books.
Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. "Pappy"...
Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...
My Name Is Jody Williams
A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and...
Open Door
A Personal Memoir of Dilys Williams (1907-1988)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In 1931, Dilys Elizabeth Jamieson Williams applied for candidature for admission to the ordained ministry of the the Australian Presbyterian Church, the first woman of that denomination to do so. Though her application was stalled, Williams’ competence in Christian theology flourished, outshining many...
Defying The Enemy Within
How I silenced the negative voices in my head to survive and thrive
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
How I silenced the negative voices in my head to survive and thrive -- Foreword by Johnny Lewis
'Joe Williams has been into the darkest forest and brought back a story to shine a light for us all. He's a leader for today and tomorrow.' -- Stan Grant
'In telling his powerful story, Joe...
by Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
**Social outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions—Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work in Fugitive Kind, one of his earliest plays. **
Fugitive Kind, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic...
by Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A small town is doomed by jealousy, greed, and a shared love of hunting
In the backwoods town of Carthage, there isn’t much for the leading citizens to do but drink, sleep, and shoot. John Warren is preparing for an early morning duck hunt when he hears two shotgun blasts— only later does...
In the Beginning Was the Deed
Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions...
by George Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
With inferno stories, George Williams returns with another original and electrifying collection. Two home invaders put on trial a descendant of San Juan Capistrano's oldest families for the sins of his ancestors. A man encounters a cult that mistakes him for both savior and sacrifice. Two screenwriters...
Evolution: Dissolution: Revolution
A Poetry Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Rare talent is like a black orchid Painted in every color bright alive
As evidenced in his first compilation of poetry, author Michael JP Williams is not afraid to constantly re-evaluate his life. While drawing on inspiration from traumatic past events as well as biblical themes, Williams illustrates...
Out of the Rough
Inside the Ropes with the World's Greatest Golfers
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
With 150 wins to his name, Steve Williams is one of the most successful caddies of the modern era. From his modest start in freelancing his way around the world’s golf courses, he became a man in demand, working with some of the golfing world’s best. Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd, Terry Gale,...
by Mark Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
How Excessive Risk Destroyed Lehman and Nearly Brought Down the Financial Industry
“Uncontrolled Risk will ruffle feathers—and for good reason—as voters and legislators learn the diffi cult lessons of Lehman’s collapse and demand that we never forget them.”
Dr. David C. Shimko, Board...