Les: 827 books
Scouting For Moyes
The inside story of a football scout
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
All football clubs have scouts: men (for they are almost always men) who watch teams to check how they play, who watch players to see how good they are. Les Padfield, though, is not your typical scout. Not many scouts are also published poets! A Londoner, he was a schoolboy footballer of great promise...
by Les Johns
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
This book will be part of a series which will provide information on all aspects of retiring in particular countries. The monographs are a companion series to a web site which is a developing site and which is mentioned within the book. The details covered include choosing a country, getting a visa,...
Real Hard Cases
Unsolved crimes reinvestigated
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Some serious crimes are open-and-shut cases, what the cops call no-brainers, but others- the REAL HARD CASES - remain either unsolved or with serious doubts hanging over them. Sometimes for years. Now, after a legendary crime-fighting career, former Glasgow detective Les Brown and bestselling crime...
Sadhu
The Enlightened One
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
“I really enjoyed the book because I could relate to the experiences in it with my own personal ones. I also like how you bring to light issues that can make the reader contemplate society and their own life choices...does wealth define success and happiness? How did society get this way? How do...
by Les MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Behind the roaring crowds and the billion-dollar record deals are tales of solitude, anger, and depression. Readers are about to unearth these stories as author Les MacDonald brings nostalgia to every bookshelf with The Day the Music Died, his newly released book published through Xlibris. The Day...
Historic Hatchville
Horse and Farm Country on Cape Cod
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The village of Hatchville on Cape Cod boasts a rich history that began in 1740 with the first Hatch settler. Join author Les Garrick on a journey from the founding of Hatchville to the rise of the cranberry, poultry and dairy industries. Against all odds, the village has preserved this heritage, and...
by Les Broad
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Internet e-mail scams, mostly originating in West Africa, have been one of the downsides of communicating in cyberspace, but, incredible though it may seem, people have actually responded to them. As an aside, an episode of a comedy series on Icelandic television featured a character who did just...
An Untidy Life
What I Saw at the Media Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media.
Les Hinton was 15 when he first worked for Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch’s “empire” was a single evening newspaper. In the next half century, he travelled the world...
by Les King
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
The Curriculum Vitae or Résumé is an advertisement for the individual, whose primary objective is to show your experience in a compact and easily-digestible form.
A good CV is your primary marketing tool.
Although this eBook is based primarily on the experience gained from recruiting...
Washington Burning
How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It
In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones....
C. G. Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar
God and evil - A critical comparison
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book brings together the work of Carl Gustav Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar, two of the most creative thinkers in psychology and theology in the twentieth century, to critically compare their ideas on the perennial question of God’s involvement with evil.
In later life Jung embarked...
No Tears for the Clown
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Les Dawson's autobiography reveals the personal dramas in his life which were to have a profound effect on his life both on and off stage, and recalls the funnier moments that helped him through.
by Les Rolston
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Taken directly from affidavits stored at the National Archives in Washington, District of Columbia, immigrant soldiers and witnesses attest to the events that resulted in 26 soldiers of these soldiers being awarded the medal of honor.
Desperate Sons
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“Popular history in its most vital and accessible form. Standiford has recovered the mentality of America’s first group of young radicals, the Sons of Liberty, and tells their story with flair and grace.”
—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers
Les Standiford’s...