Norman: 2081 books

This is a little mystery story set in rural Vermont. Bobby gets married and then he divorces her for dealing drugs. Moving to one of the southern states, he meets a woman and falls in love. He is happy until his wife is killed in a horrific traffic accident. He returns to Vermont, intending to build...

Drawing heavily from David Foster Wallace and Sven Birkerts and aided at almost every turn by the ghosts of poets and great thinkers past and present, Between River and Rock is an impressionistic exposé like nothing you've read before. Here, the oldest son of Scottish closed-caption pioneer...

Originally published in 1912. Author: Norman Angel Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Norman Angell's 1910 work The Great Illusion proved to be a major breakthrough in twentieth-century geopolitical thinking, although its central argument that global conflict was increasingly unlikely because of its mutually deleterious consequences was called into question by two world wars. In the sequel...

Situated two and a half miles from the sprawl of Birmingham City, it might seem strange today to think of Moseley as the possession of royal favourites and the country retreat of entrepreneurs and the upper middle class alike; yet it was. In this first volume, A History of Moseley Village, Norman...

To win the war against German U-boats, the Allies had to protect their convoys in the vast black hole of the mid-Atlantic known as the Azores Gap. In 1943 they devised a plan to set up air bases on the Azores Islands, owned by neutral Portugal. It was essential for the operation to remain secret because...

Osama bin LadenÆs words carry a great deal of weight in the West. When he speaks, or allegedly speaks, we listen. But what about the words of other key leaders in the Al-Qa'ida terrorist network? We can learn how to conduct the war on terrorism more successfully when we study their own manuals, written...

Norman Desmarais carefully lays out the geographic and strategic contexts of each struggle and develops their human dimensions with anecdotes and stories. • Conveniently organized by geographic location • Maps and photos help retrace each battle in detail • Websites noted for numerous historical...

A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had...

Written by a fellow native of Ontario, author and journalist Norman Duncan, the biography Higgins explores the fascinating life of Frank Higgins, a Canadian-born "lumberjack sky pilot" who spent his life traveling by foot and dog sled among lumber camps in the chilly northern climes to minister to laborers and loggers.

The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the...

In a brilliantly imaginative blend of military, social and diplomatic history, Norman Longmate retells our island story from the perspective of its defenders, in a narrative which stretches from the Celtic tribes who unsuccessfully fought against Ceasar to the great seabourne defence against the Armada...

Lively tales of aerial combat in the legendary Typhoon fighter History of the plane and the men who flew it in World War II Based on interviews with the pilots themselves The Typhoon fighter played a pivotal role in the Allies' success in the air and on the ground in World War...

A routine daily commercial non-stop flight from Seattle to Hong Kong portends nothing more than a very long day and a night without sleep for the flight crew on InterContinental Flight #499. But the spectacular eruption of an Alaskan volcano just as the aircraft shifts its polar route to follow the...