Brooks: 1783 books
by Larry Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
What makes a good story or a screenplay great?
The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry....
Saving Alex
When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When Alex Cooper was fifteen years old, life was pretty ordinary in her sleepy suburban town and nice Mormon family. At church and at home, Alex was taught that God had a plan for everyone. But something was gnawing at her that made her feel different. These feelings exploded when she met Yvette,...
科幻電影的預言與真實
人類命運的科學想像、思辯與對話
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 4, 2018
「虛構推測」往往預言人類未來，無論悲劇或美好
「我從小就覺得什麼都可能，科幻電影讓一切成真。」
——史蒂芬．史匹柏（Steven Spielberg）
**《星期日泰晤士報》年度科學選書****
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G.I. Nightingales
The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
"Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every...
Go and Bury Your Dead
A John Henry Cole Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons.
Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife, Lenora,...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VIII
The Arab-Byzantine Wars and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as Batnae, and an Armenian force occupied Amida and nearly reached Edessa before they were routed. In...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Leo III to the Macedonian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
THE history of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Isaurian dynasty is one of the periods in the prolonged evolution of the monarchy least easy of comprehension. The work of the sovereigns usually called the Iconoclast Emperors has been, in fact, recorded for us practically only by opponents...
Corps Commanders in Blue
Union Major Generals in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced...
by Baylus C. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Do you know who "Blackbeard the Pirate" was? Probably not! Born into a substantial family in Bristol, the eldest son of Capt. Edward and Elizabeth Thache sailed for Jamaica with his family sometime before 1695. Capt. Edward Thache of St. Jago de la Vega or "Spanish Town" died there...
Fips
Legendary U-Boat Commander 1915-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Weuner FŸrbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading.This is an inspiring and chivalrous story; it...
by Various, Daphne A. Brooks, Jeffrey Gonda
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...
The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob
A Journey Begins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
**Embark on an oceanic quest with Blue Ocean Bob, as he goes in search of his true purpose…and makes many new friends along the way. **
Despite his idyllic island life, young Bob yearns for a greater sense of fulfillment. With his guardian, Xena the hummingbird, at his side, Bob sets out...
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...