Blackburn: 260 books
In the Company of Heroes: the Memoirs of Captain Richard M. Blackburn Company A, 1St Battalion, 121St Infantry Regiment - Ww Ii
The Memoirs of Captain Richard M. Blackburn Company A, 1St Battalion, 121St Infantry Regiment - Ww Ii
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Never before in the history of the world had there been such cataclysmic destruction until World War II. The entire face of the earth changed, as millions died and entire cities were razed to rubble. World War II was the harbinger of the Holocaust and the herald of the Atomic Age. For Americans, it...
Truth
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general...
Beyond Boggy Creek
In Search of the Southern Sasquatch
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Countless reports from credible individuals suggest that something shocking may be stalking the woods of the southern United States—something massive, bipedal, and covered in hair. Tales of these Southern Sasquatch creatures—such as the one made famous by the 1972 horror movie "The Legend...
by Thomas Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
'The poet Thomas Blackburn faced his inner darkness with a savage courage and wrote exquisite poetry exploring the demons which haunted him. This memoir is painfully honest about those demons, yet it also reveals Thomas Blackburn as a master of prose. A Clip of Steel is one of the great literary...
Interrupting Hate
Homophobia in Schools and What Literacy Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and important book focuses on the problems of heterosexism and homophobia in schools and explores how these forms of oppression impact LGBTQQ youth, as well as all young people. The author shows how concerned teachers can engage students in literacy practices both in and out of school...
Lust
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the...
Break Through Your Set Point
How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
How many times have you gone on a diet and lost a few pounds, only to hit, once again, that dreaded plateau? Many people manage to lose the first 10, 15, or 20 pounds of the weight they want to shed. Then, no matter how hard they work, they can't seem to nudge the number on the scale farther down,...
La solución de los telómeros
Un acercamiento revolucionario para vivir más joven, más sano y más tiempo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Un acercamiento revolucionario para vivir más joven, más sano y más tiempo.
Por Elizabeth Blackburn, Premio Nobel de medicina.
¿Por qué algunas personas de 40 años se ven de 60, mientras que otras de 60 años se ven de 40? La doctora Elizabeth Blackburn descubrió un indicador...
by James B. Blackburn Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In this powerful call to action, conservationist and environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn offers an unconventional yet feasible plan to protect the Texas coast. The coast is in danger of being damaged beyond repair due to the gradual starvation of freshwater inflows to its bays, the fragmentation of...
The Telomere Effect
A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The revolutionary book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing...
by Julia Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness that left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book, Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence, and confusion,...
Time Song
Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband’s death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland,...
Locations of Buddhism
Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborating...
by John Blackburn, Greg Gbur
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
'A real creepy crawly ... Recommended to those who like their thrills chilled.' -Evening Standard
'John Blackburn lives right up to his reputation for the eerie and the sinister.' - The Guardian
'A stylish, genuinely chilling author. Blackburn's devils do not loom vaguely in the background,...