Helms: 97 books
A Look Over My Shoulder
A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent...
The Proud Bastards
One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
A riveting memoir of one marine rifleman's journey from Parris Island through the hell of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines.
In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened...
by Jeffrey Klein, Jennifer Pohl, Emily N. Vinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Trusted by radiology residents, interns, and students for more than 20 years, Brant and Helms’ Fundamentals of...
by Liz Helms
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Helms takes us through her unfiltered, uplifting story of chronic pain and severe depression to becoming a nationally recognized coalition builder and health care advocate as she battled to change a system that had failed millions. With stark honesty, she describes her personal struggle for appropriate...
An Intriguing Life
A Memoir of War, Washington, and Marriage to an American Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
From wartime England to Nixon’s America and beyond, Cynthia Helms was witness to some of the seminal events of our time—Vietnam, Watergate, and especially the demoralization of the CIA in the 1970s for political purposes. Opening with her feminist “epiphany” in 1968 (the annus horribilus as...
Trust God and Buy Broccoli
A Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Are you ready to conquer your weight problem once and for all? In a world where there are thousands of books on weight loss, how can you stop your constant cycle of overeating and dieting? If you have ever: • Dieted, lost weight and then quickly gained it back … and more. • Started a diet in the...
by Jerry Helms
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The answer to your prayers - a simple effective convention for competing over the opponents' 1NT opening bid! Originally self-published in 1996 the first edition sold out quickly so that this much sought-after treatise has been unavailable for several years. The book describes how the convention...
by Russell Helms
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Russell Helms tackles tornados, virginity cults, IKEA, and cube steak with grace and the mundane horror of life that plagues us all. Finessed with a dark sense of humor, Helms explores the human condition one character at a time.
Craft and the Kingly Ideal
Art, Trade, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from? In this study of craft production and long-distance...
Ancient Panama
Chiefs in Search of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Ancient Panama adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at the time of the European conquest. Mary W. Helms's research greatly expands knowledge of the distribution, extent, and structural nature of these pre-Columbian chiefdoms. In addition, Helms delves...
by Helms, Houston & White
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A Better World is a unique and intriguing insight into the important topic of culture and diversity. Written from the perspective of a conversation between technology (the computer) and a person, this contemporary discussion explores the notion of diversity that has for so many years captivated our...
by Darrell Schweitzer, Thomas Ligotti, Tanith Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001) features "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth," by Darrell Schweitzer; "The Gravedigger's Apprentice," by Alvin Helms; "Our Temporary Supervisor," by Thomas Ligotti; "Where All Things Perish," by Tanith Lee; "The Wizard of Ashes and Rain," by David Sandner, and more.
Inventing Authenticity
How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
In Inventing Authenticity, Carrie Helms Tippen examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Tippen brings to the table her ongoing hunt for recipe cards and evaluates a wealth of cookbooks with titles like Y’all Come Over and Bless Your Heart and...
Bougainville
A Marine's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
"Bougainville - A Marine's Story" ispartof my father's (Doan Helms) autobiography. He was an Indiana farm boy born in 1920.This rousing page turnerdescribes him enlisting in the Marines shortly after Pearl Harbor, his relationship with hisfuture wife, and follows him through boot camp at...