Perry: 2088 books
The Most Dangerous Man in America
The Making of Douglas MacArthur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"A dazzling biography." --Boston Globe
At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him...
The Untold Story of Frankie Silver
Was She Unjustly Hanged?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to...
Perry Robinson
The Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
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Playing to the Gallery
Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Grayson Perry’s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about “art”
Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not...
From the Top
Brief Transmissions from Tent Show Radio
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
“Bottom line is, I’m the kind of guy who’s happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint Hunter Magazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep...
Eliot Ness
The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul
As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables’ daring raids were...
Lifeblood
How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. They're not sleeping,” Sachs told him. They're in malarial...
The Hunt For Boko Haram
Investigating the Terror Tearing Nigeria Apart
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
After 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the militant Islamic group Boko Haram in April, the call to #bringbackourgirls was briefly taken up across the world. French president, François Hollande, America's first lady, Michelle Obama, film star and activist, Angelina Jolie, and the Archbishop of Canterbury,...
by Philippa Perry
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED...
Melmoth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
“Masterful…scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.” —Washington Post
For centuries, the...
Anyuan
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary...
London is the Place for Me
Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity and imperial citizenship were considered...
by Perry Ritthaler
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This fascinating e-book continues the story taking the reader from the time of full blow killings on the battlefield toward the peace truce operations currently being negotiated in the Middle East today. The e-book is packed with many online pictures and newspaper articles and video links to help the...
by Perry Ritthaler
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Poetry and Rhymes - Over 43 Beautiful Full Color Illustrations With expressive language and sweepingly descriptive images Perry Ritthaler paints a portrait of sincere and devoted love overwhelming passion and candid emotion. Poems and Rhymes Exploring War Soldiers Politics Animals Insanity Faith and...