Frederic: 615 books

George Henry Gordon, who moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, at the age of five, attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where his attitudes toward the country were shaped alongside classmates George McClellan, Thomas �Stonewall� Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant. Gordon went on to hold political...

Frederic C. Howe lived in interesting times. By education (at Johns Hopkins in the early 1890s) and instinct he was a progressive, in the best sense of that term. From the Cleveland of Tom Johnson to the Washington of FDR he “unlearned” his early predjudices and given values, yet “under the...

Frederic Harrop was born in New Zealand in 1940. He was educated at Taihape.H.School and did a 5 year mechanics apprenticeship. He played music, got married, has 4 lovely children and 5 grandchildren. He drove machinery and trucks, created beautiful ceramic artworks, went around the world, worked...

Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight islands is home to a biodiversity unrivaled anywhere on Earth....

An outstanding contribution to the literature of African-American history, Black Man in the White House is the first-person account of E. Frederic Morrow, the first African-American to reach an executive position in the White House. He served with distinction as Administrative Officer for Special...

Charles Trumbull Hayden built the first canal on the south side of the Salt River in 1870. Soon after, he built a store, a flour mill, and a cable ferry across the river, and he started a town. Since then, Tempe has changed from a small farming community to a lively urban center. Moreover, Tempe�s...

?Lisa Frederic was just your average Alaska fisherwoman when a vacation in Nome to see the burled-arch finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race changed her life forever. The mushers’ devotion to their dogs and the sheer grit required to complete the epic race lit a spark in Lisa. She started as...

"A Glimpse into the Firing Squad" consists of a collection of five produced screenplays, written and directed by Frederic Colier. Two feature psychological drama films: The Hindenburg Omen (2008), and Dinosaur Park (2010), and three short films, the psychological thrillers: Of Wanderlust (2003), and Desert Weeds (2004), and the reflective Bounce (2005).

The Playground is the Thing: "Why did you bring me here? To a place like this?" asks the bewildered Kate while trapped in the conceptual hopscotch of Frederic Colier’s relentless imagination. As moral outrage resurfaces in our overtly self-conscious Look-Forward-In-Angst generation, it...

Following the release of "A Glimpse into the Firing Squad," Vol1, a collection of five produced screenplays, Book Case Engine is releasing "Another Glimpse into the Firing Squad," Vol 2, a collection of seven un-produced screenplays, written by Frederic Colier. The collection includes...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Dickens and His Illustrators - 2nd. Ed.. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...

One of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East Channel Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Frederic M. Wehrey investigates the roots of the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian...

When a million dollars worth of gold, bonds and money goes missing from a locked bank vault, the authorities are stumped, especially because there’s a dead man with a knife in his back where the gold should be. To complicate matters, the dead man just looks like the person who checked into a hotel...

Witty and stylish, these extracts from Frederic Raphael’s journal chronicle the life and reflections of the screenwriter. Of special interest to film enthusiasts, this candid memoir includes encounters with David Garnett and Rebecca West-and their vivid recollections of H. G. Wells, Lytton Strachey,...