Ambrose: 683 books
How Learning Works
Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Praise for How Learning Works
"How Learning Works is the perfect title for this excellent book. Drawing upon new research in psychology, education, and cognitive science, the authors have demystified a complex topic into clear explanations of seven powerful learning principles. Full of...
by Daniel Arthur Smith, Eamon Ambrose, P.K. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This Fourth Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned is loaded with seventeen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from thirteen of today’s top speculative fiction writers.
Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction,...
Ruby Celeste and the Dire Kraken
(The Ruby Celeste series: Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Captained by Morris Flute, the two-man trade ship Exceptional Luck has lived up to its name—at least until coming under attack in a sprawling floating rainforest. In his last moments, Flute desperately fights to drop a beacon—and then something streaks from the abyss and his world turns black....
Ruby Celeste and the Ghost Armada
(The Ruby Celeste series, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Prepare to enter a dangerous place—the world of sky pirates! After arriving at The Pharmacologist’s Eden, a grand floating port run by the cut-throat Rhod Stein, Ruby Celeste discovers the deckhand she arranged to purchase has been sold out from under her and replaced with a man kidnapped from...
Twenty-Five Yards of War
The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men inWorld War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
From the sinking decks of a navy cruiser to the cockpit of a doomed B-25 bomber, Ronald J. Drez takes us to the front lines of World War II.
Through Drez's gripping narrative style, we meet twelve men, all ordinary soldiers, and learn what the war was like through their eyes, experiencing their...
by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark—by authors from H. G. Wells to Willa Cather.
Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech “ghost hunters” running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare...
Feisty After 45
The Best Blogs of Mid-life Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
These humorous and inspirational blog posts from 45 of the best midlife bloggers offer proof that tumbling over the far side of 45
is worth the journey. This anthology includes the true story of the middle-aged woman who attempted to give her husband a lap dance in the kitchen but the result...
The Wild, Wild West
Thrilling Tales by Famous Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A town that had a man for breakfast every morning.
That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous
The Eccentricity of Tyrants
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A penetrating and incisive study into the unscrupulous and fanatic minds of history's most notorious figures.
From Assad to Nero, Gaddafi to Ivan the Terrible, Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Eccentricity of Tyrants presents the psychological profiles that make up a tyrant. While leaving some room...
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military...
by Herman Graf, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A timeless anthology of chilling tales known to torment the mind and stir up nightmarish visions that can never be unseen.
Ghosts, murder, demonic possession, and psychological terror: these are just some of the subjects explored by the unparalleled writers in this superb collection. Lovers...
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The question "Does civilization civilize?" is a fine example of petitio principii, and decides itself in the affirmative; for civilization must needs do that from the doing of which it has its name. But it is not necessary to suppose that he who propounds is either unconscious of his lapse in logic or...
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Right Words for Any Occasion
What to Say and How to Say It for All of Life’s Special Moments
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
What to say and how to say it.
Birthdays, funerals, marriages, divorces-each of these occasions require a personal response, often in the form of a note. But finding the appropriate phrase or sentiment to convey is often difficult. With over 250 sample notes for nearly every occasion and dozens...