Richard Thompson: 69 books
Crypto Uncovered
The Evolution of Bitcoin and the Crypto Currency Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Crypto currency integrated BlockChain under Virtual Scalable Enterprises is a widely debated and earnestly discussed topic in the technology arena. Executives at the largest institutions are calling crypto currency fraudulent while high-level institutional banking professionals are leaving their positions...
Mighty Alice Goes Round and Round
A Cul de Sac Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Cul de Sac chronicles the absurdly wonderful adventures of the Otterloop family. Alice, Petey, Mom, and Dad live in the cookie-cutter suburbs not far from the interstate. Here, and at school, their day-to-day life unfolds with simple joys, tiny infractions, and wonderful moments of gentle bliss.
In...
by Richard Thompson Ford, Lauren Berlant, Mark Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
In recent decades, left political projects in the United States have taken a strong legalistic turn. From affirmative action to protection against sexual harassment, from indigenous peoples’ rights to gay marriage, the struggle to eliminate subordination or exclusion and to achieve substantive equality...
On Their Own
Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child With Learning Disabilities and ADHD: A Family Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
An indispensable guide to the special challenges faced by parents of learning-disabled children as they enter adulthood, by the author of Laughing Allegra, a leading activist and parent of an adult child with LD.
In 2003 Anne Ford (great-granddaughter of Henry Ford) published Laughing Allegra,...
by Richard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Willamette Valley Railways tells the story of the electric interurban railways that ran through Oregon�s Willamette Valley and of the streetcars that operated in the towns they served. Long before modern light rail vehicles, electric trains were providing Portland and the Willamette Valley with reliable,...
A Hard Knock Life
A Young Man’S Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"A Hard Knock Life is a memoir about the authors youngest son and the adventurous 20 years leading to a near-fatal single-car accident in Los Angeles. It began as a list of notes recorded while his son was comatose from a Traumatic Brain Injury. As more events, sad or happy, were remembered,...
Big Wheat
A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels...
by Richard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Herman Jackson never thought his past would catch up with him, least of all via a murdered Vietnam veteran named Charlie Victor.
Jackson used to run a bookie operation in Detroit, but his bail bond business in St. Paul is much safer. And if Charlie Victor wasn't his best client, he was at least...
by Richard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Portland neighborhoods owe their location, alignment, and growth to a splendid, 19th-century innovation: the streetcar. This city still bears the imprint of the carlines that once wove their way out to suburbs in every direction, including Fulton, Portland Heights, Goose Hollow, Nob Hill, Slabtown, Willamette...
A Special Mother
Getting Through the Early Days of a Child's Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities and Related Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
All mothers experience worries and fears about their children, but none can compare with the early days when a mother feels something's not quite right. Anne Ford knows the feeling. She's had it herself, having raised a daughter with severe learning disabilities, and has gone on to share experiences...
The Race Card
How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
What do hurricane Katrina victims, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, and Ivy League professors waiting for taxis have in common? All have claimed to be victims of racism. But these days almost no one openly defends bigoted motives, so either...
Nature's Design
exploring the mysteries of the natural world
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
What's so special about grass? Why do cows have four stomachs? When will lions give their last roar? How do animals plan menus - and co-ordinate hunts? Why do bees dance? How many elephants are too many? This compelling book explores and finds answers to some of Nature's most intriguing mysteries....
by Richard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Street railways arrived early in Portland and made lasting social and economic contributions that are still apparent in the layout and character of the city�s neighborhoods today. During the 1890s, streetcar lines spread rapidly into the West Hills and across the Willamette River. The technological...
by Richard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
No area of Portland, Oregon, played a more important role in street railway history than Northwest Portland and the neighborhood known as Slabtown. In 1872, the city's first streetcars passed close to Slabtown as they headed for a terminus in the North End. Slabtown was also home to the first streetcar...