Butler: 1720 books
Fat Dad, Fat Kid
One Father and Son's Journey to Take Power Away from the "F-Word"
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In today’s world where fast-food restaurants, soda, and processed foods reign supreme, does “fat dad” have to mean “fat kid”? Digital entrepreneur and beloved vlogger Shay Butler and his preteen son, Gavin, decided to find out the answer for themselves.
Before Shay became famous for...
Playing with Something That Runs
Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised, evolving...
The Gila Trail
The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
The Texas Argonauts were on the march west as early as January, 1849 —a remarkable circumstance when it is recalled that the famous tea caddy of gold dust which set off the gold fever in the “States” did not reach Washington, D. C, until December 7, 1848. From Brownsville,...
War Is A Racket!
And Other Essential Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"WAR is a racket. It always has been. "It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." Thus begins one of the most important...
by Thomas Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbrights Washington D. C. Office arranged a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School at Ft Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He could not have known how this factor would affect the future decisions he would...
by Butler, Alban
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints ("Butler's Lives"), the result of thirty years study (first published in four volumes, London, 1756-1759), has passed through many editions and translations (best edition, including valuable notes, Dublin, 12 vols. 1779-1780)....
The Utopia MEGAPACK ®
20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Utopia. A community or society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. It may be a dream, but it's a dream that has inspired writers for thousands of years. Plato's "Republic" may be the very first utopia presented to a mass audience, but Thomas More coined the term with his 1516 book...
The Burden of Guilt
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European...
Grateful
The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.
If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks.
We...
Christianity for the Rest of Us
How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
by William Butler Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Ideas of Good and Evil William Butler Yeats, irish poet (1865-1939)
This ebook presents «Ideas of Good and Evil», from William Butler Yeats. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- WHAT IS...
by Alban Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Alban Butler (17101773) was an English Roman Catholic priest who wrote about religious leaders in the Catholic Church. His work culminated with The Lives of the Saints, commonly referred to as "Butler's Lives, which took him 30 years of studying to accomplish. It is considered by many to be the most...
by Christopher Knight, Alan Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world. Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. On further...
by Butler Samuel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Samuel Butler presents his dazzling thoughts in this magnificent anthology of essays and lectures. "The Humour of Homer and Other Essays" brings great insight into new ideas and reflections on topics deeply affecting human race. Keen to discuss archaeological and ancient works Butler brings together his own theories with those of other well-known scientists such as Darwin. Brilliant!