Gould: 657 books

This account of the Great War puts you right in the action—from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps. From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat, there emerged a renowned company of brilliant...

On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was stoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his illness. In the face of difficult decisions he sought always to understand the disease and the various medical options open to him, supported by his wife Gail and their two...

Bizarre symptoms and debilitating neurological attacks that happened only at school upended eleven year old Jill’s world. Skeptical medical specialists attributed the odd, recurrent symptoms to the adoptee’s biological inheritance then to a mental illness. Disbelieving school officials labeled...

This book contains instructions for camping and walking in the wilderness. As an infantryman with the Union Army, John M. Gould marched and camped in an organized group for several years. He wrote down what he knew, and the result is a book that shows you how to camp and how to organize yourself when you go camping.

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Richard Aldington Childhood The Poplar Round-Pond Daisy Epigrams The Faun sees Snow for the First Time Lemures H. D. The Pool The Garden Sea Lily Sea Iris Sea Rose Oread Orion Dead John Gould Fletcher The Blue Symphony London...

In Nothing to Fear and Outback Hero, Max is on a family holiday in outback Australia. Three times Max faces death. Three times, Charlie, Max’s older brother, saves him. Charlie is a hero. Max desperately wants to be one too. But you can’t plan to be the hero.

Sabine Baring-Gould's work on lycanthropy and the legends of the werewolves is probably the most detailed on the market. She goes back deep into the history, tries to share knowledge on the evolution of the legends and expresses her views on modern-day werewolves' talks.

"What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus Reviews Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould...

"Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal—a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences." --David Quammen, New York Times Book Review

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing...

When an intrepid time traveller takes a trip back to the time of the dinosaurs, he is faced with many puzzling questions. What is this thing called the Mesozoirama? Why do the dinosaurs hold it in such high regard? And could it actually be a threat to the entire dinosaur civilisation? Dinosaurs is...

One of the most brilliant, eclectic thinkers in Victorian England, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was intrigued by the grotesque and often savage history of the Middle Ages. The noted author and folklorist’s fascination with the period resulted in this absorbing compilation of vintage...

This engrossing historical novel from Sabine Baring-Gould is set in early medieval Wales and recounts the invasion of that nation under the direction of King Henry I. During the coup, the religious leader Pabo is the target of an intense manhunt due to his long history of abusing his power.

Set in the Surrey area of southeast England and rich in local color, Sabine Baring-Gould's novel The Broom-Squire gives an account of a vicious murder that leaves an infant orphaned. She is rescued by a man of humble means and raised in his quaint and quirky community.