Drew: 742 books

Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South. Wormsloe...

The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment. Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of...

By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the...

A young man clears out his dead Father's house and makes several dark discoveries. 

Ben Hood is hired to find those responsible for the attempted murder of a mentally retarded youth in the Daintree jungle of Far North Queensland. The boy saw something on a track that he was never supposed to see. The assignment brings Ben into contact with dangerous wild creatures, most of which...

Ben Hood is an ex Police Detective and currently a VIP protection agent. He’s not prone to taking crap from anyone. If a job has to be done, he’ll do it and he’ll do it his way even if rules have to be broken. Very different women are having dreams about the most expensive Blue Diamond in the...

She is very beautiful with exceptional academic qualifications and vast experience in the use of toxic chemicals. ISIS needs her to achieve their goals for a catastrophic attack within Australia. She attracts terrorists like moths to a flame. Can Ben Hood put her in a position where the moths will be attracted and made to burn before they can kill thousands of innocent people?

There is a special government facility near Mudgee, NSW, west of Sydney, where those who are considered a threat to public safety are ‘corrected’. Some are released back into the community. Ben Hood is hired by a Mudgee resident to investigate a spate of cat killings. The cat killings progresses...

Get ready for takeoff. The life of the flight attendant, a.k.a., stewardess, was supposedly once one of glamour, exotic travel and sexual freedom, as recently depicted in such films as Catch Me If You Can and View From the Top. The nostalgia for the beautiful, carefree and ever helpful stewardess...

A Paranoid Left-wing Mystery Featuring Detective Ed Iannucci. Detective Ed Iannucci begins his investigation of a seemingly simple theft case. Before it’s over it will lead him down twisted pathways to criminals, law enforcement officers and a disturbing question; can he tell them apart? More description:...

The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the seventh game of the 1955 World Series in the greatest baseball game ever played. The second-greatest baseball game ever played took place Saturday, June 29, 1957. No Yankees, Giants, Dodgers, Cardinals, or Red Sox were there. The game played...

“A book or collection of writings constituting the sacred text of a religion.” —The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition For thousands of years, we have been told that God was a man. Then someone reminded us of when God was a woman. Now we have...

In her autobiography, My Walk With God, the author, D. M. Scales, talks about many things. Foremost, she talks about her life and growing up in the South during the oppressive sixties era.Basically, this was during the civil rights movement, which was a product of inequality along with Jim Crow and...