Buckley: 510 books
by David Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
R.E.M.'s public image has always been tightly controlled. Icons of anti-celebrity rock, who bacame huge celebrity rock stars, they were, according to the story, the first U.S. post new-wave band who were both commercially successful and cool. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Mike Mills, Peter...
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the New York Times–bestselling spy series, Agent Oakes is in Cuba for secret negotiations with Che Guevara—on a mission that soon turns deadly.
From his 1st day in office, President Kennedy has been bedeviled by Cuba. The CIA forced the Bay of Pigs invasion down his throat, resulting...
American Patriots: A Young People's Edition
The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
They fought on Lexington Green the first morning of the Revolution and survived the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge. They stormed San Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor. They are the black Americans who fought, often in foreign lands,...
Operation Market Garden
The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces...
by Christopher Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches...
American Soul
The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform movements both at home and abroad....
Aspects of Greek History 750-323BC
A Source-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Aspects of Greek History 750- 323 BC: A Source-Based Approach offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics, from pre-university to undergraduate level. Chapter by chapter, the relevant historical periods from the age of colonization to Alexander...
Saving Congress from Itself
Emancipating the States and Empowering Their People
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Saving Congress from Itself proposes a single reform: eliminate all federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments. This action would reduce federal spending by over $600 billion a year and have a profound effect on how we govern ourselves. The proliferation of federal grants-in-aid programs...
by Buckley B. Paddock
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Capt. B. B. Paddock was one of the most prolific authors on Texas history. His writings are probably the most complete and best balanced ones. This book covers the history of the Texas Northwest and especially the history of the Fort Worth Region. This is volume one out of two.
Never Give Up
Life with IBD
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Have you ever wondered what life is like with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). It is one of the last taboo's and most patients suffer in silence. Never Give Up is the author's frank diary of life with IBD plus several rounds of surgery and convalescence. It also looks at the...
African American Doctors of World War I
The Lives of 104 Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
by Ray Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In every culture and time, persons of faith, of all ages, have summoned trials and tribulations to find the endurance and strength to “dance.” They have danced with the weight of the world upon their shoulders, sustained by God and others dancing near them.
Hard to Dance With the Devil...
by Paul Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Elias Hicks was a minister, a mystic, a farmer, an environmentalist, an abolitionist, a father and a husband. This book aims to reveal the real Elias Hicks and his understanding of what it means to be a Quaker. Elias Hicks has much to say to Friends today.