Lucas: 1331 books
by Lucas Peyton Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Kyoto - founded in the year 794 and capital of Japan for fully half that nation's recorded history - sits firmly in the center of Lucas Peyton Thomas's compelling, vivid history of Japan. Here, in vibrant detail, are the stories of the rise and fall of Japan's aristocracy, of the days of the shoguns...
Little Me
My autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The hilarious, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas. Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland...
The Journey’s End Battalion
The 9th East Surrey in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey’s End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding...
Reich
World War II Through German Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
While Allied propaganda would have us believe that during World War II the German population were downtrodden workers, with no rights and under the power and influence of the all-controlling Gestapo, the truth is somewhat different. While the Allies saw Hitler as an evil to be removed from power,...
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich
The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The fascinating true story of a German bureaucrat who worked secretly with the Allies during World War II.
In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz...
Sister States, Enemy States
The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
by Natalie Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Sixteen, Sixty-one is the powerful and shocking true story of an illicit intergenerational affair, in the vein of Nikki Gemmell and Lynn Barber. Natalie Lucas was just 16 when she began a close relationship with an older family friend. Matthew opened Natalie’s mind and heart to philosophy, literature...
Global Wallace
David Foster Wallace and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and...
by Anna Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was a key player in the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. An Irish-born merchant seaman, entrepreneur, lover of poetry and a born leader, he inspired the men who travelled with him on British expeditions to Antarctica. Douglas Mawson, then a young lecturer in geology...
Æsop's Fables
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
In this book, Æsop's most beloved fables have been revised, rewritten (to be suitable for younger children), and illustrated by Lucas Hucher. Fifteen of Aesop's Fables are featured, as followed, The Hair and the Tortoise, The Dog and the Wolf, The Dog and his Reflection, The Lion and the Mouse,...
by Fred V. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
American politics was transformed from the time a WABC manager told Rush Limbaugh, "You're kidding yourself if you think we'll ever carry your national show." to the day an establishment Republican senator griped "talk radio is running America." Limbaugh ignited a new generation...
Lincoln's Sacred Effort
Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Lucas Morel examines what the public life of Abraham Lincoln teaches about the role of religion in a self-governing society. Lincoln's understanding of the requirements of republican government led him to accommodate and direct religious sentiment toward responsible self-government. As a successful...
God's Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards
The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Jonathan Edwards was a preacher, pastor, revivalist, and theologian. This volume unpacks his magnificent theological vision, which starts with God’s glory and ends with all creation returning to that glory.
Sean Michael Lucas has converted his years of teaching on Edwards into this valuable...
All Questions Great and Small
A Seriously Funny Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The whole idea of the SERIOUSLY FUNNY tour was for Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas to let people in on their conversations about God, life and the universe - and it went pretty well. After all, that's pretty much what they've been doing in their separate writing and speaking careers all these years.
All...