Gibbs: 371 books

Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...

**Winner of the 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Book in Spiritual Self Help           ** **Finalist of the 2017 Body Mind Spirit Book Awards  **                              All enlightened beings, most founders of religions and...

In the tradition of T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) and Robert Graves is A. Hamilton Gibbs' classic World War I memoir of his time in service to king and country. With humor, intelligence, sorrow, and bitterness he truthfully, nakedly, vividly, reveals the experience not only of one soldier in the British...

Written by J. Willard Gibbs, the most distinguished American mathematical physicist of the nineteenth century, this book was the first to bring together and arrange in logical order the works of Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs himself. The lucid, advanced-level text remains a valuable collection...

Andrea Gibbs was 39 when she was diagnosed with an incurable form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. As the vitality was drained from her she felt ill equipped to battle the disease. There was no one source that provided her with the information she felt she needed in order to take on this invader/assailant.Through...

What makes a successful life?  Is it only money or material things? Maybe you think it is social status or a person’s connections.  All these are valid. At least, these are what people can see and count as contributors of an individual’s success.  But did you know that our character is another,...

The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment considers the consequences of a hedonistic and...

The road to graduation—Easy? No. Worth it? Yes! Looking for a little something to cheer on the new graduate in your life, celebrating a milestone, be it high-school or college graduation? Funny and poignant words and sayings of encouragement and empowerment, accompanied by photos of our loveable...

Ever wondered about what your life would be like abroad? Not satisfied with your job or your current lifestyle? Ever think that there must be something more to life than getting an internship, 9-5 job and a mortgage, adventures to be had, foreign lands to visit? Worried about wasting your 20’s building...

Thanksgiving is a time to gather and what better way to bring together the history, stories and poetry surrounding the event than with this keepsake volume. Reacquaint yourself with how the first Thanksgiving came to be by reading excerpts from pilgrims William Bradford and Edward Winslow; read aloud...

Cowboys gather around the campfire to solve a murder... Fear brings out the dragon in good men...The riskiest part of space travel turns out to be the paperwork... and more. Five speculative fiction short stories are presented here, all of which have won contests or been accepted for publication...

The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for history’s favor. Among their secrets: How Jack Kennedy tried to blame...

‘There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today’ – Susan Haigh, The Short Review Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories...

Three SistersTwo WorldsOne Epic Quest“Unless you want to meet the same fate as your friend, I suggest you stay where you are.” The man warned, aiming his bow and arrow at Angie.“Oh, are you going to shoot me too?” Angie asked, walking forward with her hands out on either side...