Richard O : 191 books
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Although it wasn't yet summer, the temperature climbed into triple digits on June 3, 1925, and Lloyd Russell could not sleep that night. He lived with his mother and his brother's family in a modest three room bungalow on Progress Avenue in a neighborhood call Prospect Hill. Despite the bountiful...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
George said that he was taking his mother to a train in the fall of 1883 when they were overcome by two robbers at the end of the lane at the edge of his farm. In the course of the robbery, he claimed, the robbers killed his mother, and buried her in a ravine on George's property. He fetched a shovel...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
When the married veterinarian Dr. David Roberts, a renowned expert on exotic cattle and distributor of a line of patent medicines for pets and farm animals, approached the spinster schoolteacher Grace Lusk about helping him edit a textbook on cattle, he sparked a three-year illicit relationship that...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Before he could bleed out, his family discovered the bloody, bloody scene, and rescued the beleaguered coal man. He said his only regret is that he didn't kill his meddling mother-in-law, too. This "novelette" length true crime story details the family quarrel that led to the gruesome crime and the delivery of turn-of-the-century justice.
by Cowan, Richard O.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
This is Richard O. Cowan's book Doctrine and Covenants, Our Modern Scripture.
The Main Event
Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Richard O. Davies won Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Medal in Sports for The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip. Davies' book was chosen as one of the best indie books of 2014.
As the twentieth century dawned, bare-knuckle prizefighting...
Sports in American Life
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history. Updated include...
Efficient Asset Management
A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
In spite of theoretical benefits, Markowitz mean-variance (MV) optimized portfolios often fail to meet practical investment goals of marketability, usability, and performance, prompting many investors to seek simpler alternatives. Financial experts Richard and Robert Michaud demonstrate that the limitations...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
The Rev. S. Althea Berrie of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was no stranger to controversy. In 1932, the handsome hymn writer found himself facing charges of heresy after preaching that Santa Claus was an affront to the Child in the manger. Much deeper trouble was in store when his wife wife, Fannie, died after...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
He was working at a small shop in Northern Ohio shaving an undertaker when the sheriff arrived to arrest him. The barber said he was not Charlie King the fugitive but J.W. Thomas. He couldn't remember where he'd been the last year. This novella length true crime history shows how a wily police chief...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Before the dust settled on the 1917 case, there would be accusations of murder, an exhumation of the body, three trials, one hung jury, a prison break and a scandal that rocked Southwestern Ohio.
To Free a Dolphin
A Dramatic Case for Keeping Dolphins in their Natural Environment, by the Trainer of "Flipper"
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In this memorable first book, Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O'Barry told the inspiring story of his personal transformation from world-famous dolphin trainer (Flipper was his pupil) to dolphin liberator. Now, in To Free a Dolphin, he passionately recounts the dramatic story of his heart-breaking...
Undoing Perpetual Stress
The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21stCentury Illness
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Our brains weren’t built for this.
Twenty-first-century life evolves at a breakneck pace—and with it, stress seems to multiply by the day. We work long, harrowing hours. We fret over our families and finances. Our e-mail beeps and our cell phones ring. But our nervous systems were never...
The First Celebrity Serial Killer in Southwest Ohio
Confessions of the Strangler Alfred Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The life, crimes, and rise to fame of Alfred Knapp, “The Strangler,” from the award-winning journalist and author of Cincinnati’s Savage Seamstress.
Just before Christmas 1902, Alfred Knapp strangled his wife in her sleep. He put her body in a box and sent the box floating down the Great...