Ira: 311 books
by Ira S. Mac
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
After official institutions and amateur astronomers record a planet-killer solar flare and announce it to the world, people from all over the planet react in different ways. Others in shock and denial and others in their own particular way. In the end, all that matters is that mankind is about to perish and one unique traveler far away will be the only proof that Earth ever existed...
It Happens Every Spring
DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Culled from 50 years' worth of columns from one of the country's most popular sportswriters, It Happens Every Spring stands as a remarkable and evocative anthology that is guaranteed to delight baseball fans of all ages. Former New York Times columnist Ira Berkow captures the spirit of America's pasttime...
Counterpunch
Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Spanning the period between 1967 and 2005, this compilation includes 84 of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ira Berkow’s columns on boxing. Readers will meet some of the greatest names in the sport’s history in the pages of this book, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Joe Louis, and Mike Tyson....
by Ira Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In an era of partisanship and shifting political labels, a fascinating look at just how “liberal” President John F. Kennedy actually was—or wasn’t.
“America, meet the real John F. Kennedy.” —Washington Times
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Lyndon Johnson...
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by Ira Wolfert
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the Island War In The Pacific Illustration Pack – 152 maps, plans and photos.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Ira Wolfert provides a gripping eye-witness account of one of the pivotal campaigns of the Second World War.
The campaign to liberate the Solomon islands from Japanese...
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam
Unparalleled and Unequaled
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region. Operating deep within the Viet Cong--controlled Delta, the 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army was charged with protecting the area and its population against Communist...
Seeking the Cure
A History of Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician
Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either...
The Long Emancipation
The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.
King Of Airfighters The Biography Of Major "Mick" Mannock Vc Dso MC
The Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, VC, DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
A penetrating study of Britain's top fighter ace in the Great War . . .Ira Jones' biography of Britain's top scoring ace of World War I has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years most notably as it is the source of the claim of 73 "kills" for Mannock thereby making...
James A. Garfield
The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics—only to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors
James A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party's leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose...
Desolation and Enlightenment
Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating...
Slavery and Public History
The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).
In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books,...
by Ira Nadel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Virginia Woolf was one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century—a major literary stylist and a lyrical novelist whose stream-of-consciousness approach in iconic books such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando would inspire generations of writers to follow. She...
by Ira Sankey
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
In Sankey’s Story of the Gospel Hymns, Ira Sankey delineates his own story as a gospel singer and song writer. Originally printed in 1906, this classic book documents Sankey’s ministry alongside D. L. Moody including their starting work together, stories from their evangelistic campaigns in America...