Charles W : 392 books
From Peanuts to Power
The Road to Wealth, Success, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
For over 30 years the former Senator Charles W. Walker has dedicated his life and career to public service. He was the first African American chosen to serve as Senate Majority Leader; the second-highest elected position in the Senate Leadership. In this new book, FROM PEANUTS TO POWER, Walker outlines...
From Korti to Khartum
A Journal of the Desert March from Korti to Gubat, and of the Ascent of the Nile in General Gordon’s Steamers [Ill. Ed.]
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From 1884 to 1885, British Army officer Charles William Wilson took part in the Khartoum Relief Expedition, commanded by Garnet Wolseley. He was part of the advance rescue force led by Sir Herbert Stewart. After Stewart was mortally wounded Brigadier-General Wilson took command of this group of about...
by Charles W. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
The setting is the small community of Burkesville, KY. Mark Casey has been arrested for crimes he did not commit. Now he will face the Commonwealth of Kentucky in a jury trial. His attorney is convinced he is innocent. His friends are convinced he is innocent. Many people living in the community...
by Charles W. Eliot, Reading Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that...
by Charles W. Bamforth
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing (9780137065073) by Charles W. Bamforth. Available in print and digital formats. An expert meditates on beer quality: from the bottle to the bubbles and...
by Charles W. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
To open to the youth of America a knowledge of some of the winter sports of our neighbors of the maritime provinces, with their attendant pleasures, perils, successes, and reverses, the following tale has been written. It does not claim to teach any great moral lesson, or even to be a guide to the...
by Charles W. Whistler
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
A word may be needed with regard to the sources from which this story of King Eadmund's armour bearer and weapon thane have been drawn. For the actual presence of such a close attendant on the king at his martyrdom on Nov. 20, 870 A.D. we have the authority of St. Dunstan, who had the story from the lips of the witness himself.
by Charles W. Taylor Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
This is a story about how our lives can be influenced if we don't control our own emotions.
by Charles W. Colson
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2004
Charles Colson has been called, "one of the most important social reformers in a generation." Ten years ago in The Body, Colson turned his prophetic attention to the church and how it might break out of its cultural captivity and reassert its biblical identity.
Today the book's classic truths...
Travels into Print
Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry—products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers...
Taking Fire
The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Nicknamed "Mini-Man" for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With an unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped...
by Charles W. Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Look around and select a subject that you can see painted. That will paint itself. Do the obvious thing before you do the superhuman thing.
It may have been accidental, but you knew enough to let this alone. The good painter is always making use of accidents.
Never try to repeat a success.
Swing a...
by Charles W. Wills
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
"July 1, 1864: This campaign is coming down to a question of muscle and nerve. It is the 62d day for us, over 50 of which we have passed under fire." One of the earliest to enlist in the Union cause of the American Civil War upon Lincoln's call for volunteers, Charles Wills kept a diary throughout...
Greater Freedom
The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the...