Franklin: 1388 books

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) invented the key forms of American fiction-the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even...

Thrilling science fiction by Jay Franklin The Astonishing Narrative of a Man Who Was Somebody Else ... Mixed Up With Politics and Three Luscious Women! When an atomic explosion destroys the battleship Alaska, Lt. Commander Frank Jacklin returns to consciousness in New York and is shocked...

Die Lebensbeschreibung Benjamin Franklins (1706 - 1790), der einer der bedeutendsten Staatsmänner der jungen Vereinigten Staaten wurde, gilt als das erste "klassische" Werk der amerikanischen Literatur. Benjamin Franklin, der Sohn eines in die Neue Welt ausgewanderten Seifensieders und...

In Domestic Wild, Franklin Ginn sets out to find a new sense of the wild at the heart of modernity. Inspired by experienced, skilful gardeners, Ginn analyses what happens when plants, animals and people meet in the suburbs of London. Weaving major theories of landscape, memory and nonhuman subjectivity...

That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between...

En un país asiático, una cadena de extraños acontecimientos deja su amarga huella de desolación en cientos de personas. Se cuentan por decenas los desaparecidos sin ninguna explicación. Un misterio insólito e insospechado, del que solo muchos años después comienzan a aparecer pistas fiables. Paralelamente,...

Benjamin Franklin Bowen wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.

American Educator chronicles one woman’s journey from ninth-grade dropout, to university professor and beyond. The novella takes place over a turbulent eleven years of teaching in colleges and even in prison. Franklin helped students from over 50 different countries, many of whom are refugees from...

When your doctor delivers the news—you have heart disease, which afflicts one in three Americans (an estimated 81 million people)—you need exactly the kind of indispensable, plainspoken advice found in Prevent, Halt & Reverse Heart Disease. You need Joe Piscatella. A lay expert who’s been...

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With In Search of Cell History, Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial take on that research and the controversies that keep...

With a sickening dread Linda suddenly realizes that she holds little Jeds survival in her own burned hands. The inferno that exploded their quiet world has left her eight-year-old son with severe burns over more than half of his body, most of them third degree. But with neither vehicle nor phone how...

As a professional woman you’re under scrutiny. You make rapid decisions, relate to associates above you, below you and beside you. Every moment you’re “on” - stage center. It’s imperative to make responsible evaluations for your image and corporate success. As in any endeavor, there...

As advanced in-space propulsion moves from science fiction to reality, the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, or VASIMR® engine, is a leading contender for making 'Mars in a month' a possibility. A paradigm shift in space transportation, this book is an in-depth and compelling story co-written...

The Republic of Suriname has a long and rich heritage of Bible translation spanning more than 250 years, yet very little has been published on its history. In this book Dr Franklin Jabini, a Surinamer as well as a translator himself, provides the reader with a detailed survey of the history of Bible...