Lawrence: 4086 books
by E. Lawrence Abel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
In this book, E. Lawrence Abel sheds much-needed light on the fascinating details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John Wilkes Booth's illness that turned him into an assassin, the medical treatment the president is alleged to have received after he was shot, and the significance...
by Lawrence S. Bartell
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Lawrence Bartell experienced many strange events over the course of his long life, at least partly because he deliberately strayed far from the beaten path in science. While it might not have been the most efficient way to gain a reputation in his field, it was more fun.
In his memoir, he presents...
Fool Me Twice
Fighting the Assault on Science in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than...
"We Can't Kill Your Mother!"
And Other Stories of Intensive Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In the early 1980s I wrote a story about an extremely ill patient cared for in our medical intensive care unit (MICU) at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Cleveland. Called A Case For Intensive Care, the story was for a general audience and appeared in a local college literary magazine. Until then all my published...
by Lawrence H. Keeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1996
The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare,...
by Lawrence Michels
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
An attractive lawyer's wife is gunned to death in her car in the presence of her children at the end of a large family Thanksgiving weekend, 1992.
Thus began one of Cobb Counties most incredibly bizarre cases in a county with a history of bizarre cases. It was to consist of a cast so large...
Hiding in the Mirror
The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by way of Alicei n Wonderland, Einstein, and The Twilight Zone)
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own-by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek
Lawrence Krauss -an international leader in physics and cosmology-examines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled dimensions, and regions of being that...
The Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence...
How to Win a Fight
A Guide to Avoiding and Surviving Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Two veteran martial arts instructors and a renowned comic book illustrator deliver the ultimate course in self-defense
More than three million Americans are involved in a violent physical encounter every year. In these situations, knowledge is power, and few teachers are better equipped to...
by Gunnar Angel Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
A follow up to the hit Cigar Basics: A Guide for Newbies. From how to begin developing an aficionado's palate to cigar of the month clubs and women, sex and cigars.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEVELOPING AN AFICIONADO’S PALATE
DIVING INTO CIGAR TASTINGS
CIGAR OF THE MONTH CLUBS
CIGARBID.COM
HOW...
A Primeira Guerra Mundial
história completa
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 16, 2015
A Primeira Guerra Mundial, deflagrada em 1914, provocou mudanças sem precedentes na História. O mapa da Europa foi redesenhado, impérios seculares desmoronaram como castelo de cartas, os EUA afirmaram sua hegemonia, a União Soviética se apresentou ao mundo. Tudo isso começou com o assassinato...
by Lawrence O. Gostin
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.
The Second Amendment
An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
For many years, some groups have claimed that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stands as an obstacle to most gun control laws. Lawrence E. Rosenthal and Adam Winkler debunk this myth with careful legal analysis of recent court decisions, including District of Columbia v. Heller. This...
Painting Wildlife Step by Step
Learn from 50 demonstrations how to capture realistic textures in watercolor, oil and acrylic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations in acrylic, watercolor and oil
Inside, you'll learn how to create realistic wildlife paintings, step by step, mastering dozens of specific wildlife textures, including:
Fur of a bobcat, American bison, snow leopard cub and wolf
Feathers of a...