Wills: 288 books
The Australian Exploration Anthology
Texts from William Dampier, Capt. Cook, Matthew Flinders, John Macdouall Stuart, John McKinlay, William Wills
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The Australian Exploration Anthology features the first-hand personal accounts of the explorers: Captain William Dampier, Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders, John McDouall Stuart, John McKinlay and William Wills.
This book charts the history of the exploration of the vast continent of Australia...
Green Equilibrium
The vital balance of humans and nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In Green Equilibrium, Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems maintain a diversity of interdependent species, in particular the balance of predators and prey. Wills is both an eminent academic and a hugely experienced field-biologist. In presenting the concept of 'green equilibrium',...
Gamer Nation
Video Games and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown between gunfighters. Rich in Western folklore, the game seemed perfect for the American market; players...
Inanimation
Theories of Inorganic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Inanimation is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In Prosthesis, Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity within the body itself. In Dorsality, he explored how technology is understood to function behind or before the human....
by Maralys Wills
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
A treasure trove of sage advice for the new writer packaged in easy to digest and fun to read anecdotes. Damn the Rejections, Full Speed Ahead offers real world suggestions for writing novels, or non-fiction and turning them into saleable works. Maralys Wills, creative writing teacher and author of...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
In the paperback edition of the critically acclaimed hardcover, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills explores Thomas Jefferson's final and favorite achievement, the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is one of America's greatest architectural treasures and...
A Necessary Evil
A History of American Distrust of Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The New York Times bestselling historian takes on a pressing question in modern religion—will Pope Francis embrace change?
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he?
Garry...
The Kennedy Imprisonment
A Meditation on Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
With a new preface: An “irreverent [and] entertaining” portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma (The Christian Science Monitor).
Described by the New York Times as “a sort of intellectual outlaw,” Garry Wills takes on the romantic myths surrounding the Kennedy...
The River Was Dyed with Blood
Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest’s command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers...
by Charles W. Wills
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
"July 1, 1864: This campaign is coming down to a question of muscle and nerve. It is the 62d day for us, over 50 of which we have passed under fire." One of the earliest to enlist in the Union cause of the American Civil War upon Lincoln's call for volunteers, Charles Wills kept a diary throughout...
Head and Heart
A History of Christianity in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout...
Mountain of Fame
Portraits in Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
In an age when self -help methods abound and meditation is a common prescriptive, Garry Wills-one of the most respected writers on religious topics today-offers an extraordinary journey through one of the oldest...