Ronald: 2667 books
by Aliette de Bodard, Yoon Ha Lee, Margaret Ronald
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Eighteen steampunk short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and five-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”Authors include Campbell Award finalist Aliette...
The Darkest Period
The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss...
Sergei Eisenstein
A Life in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“Will reward the attention of anyone interested in either film or Soviet history” (Publishers Weekly).
Based on new material released from archives after the fall of the Soviet Union, as well as on Eisenstein’s personal letters, diaries, and sketches, Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict...
Mismatch
How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (And What We Can Do About It)
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put us on the wrong foot by responding to stimuli that - in prehistoric times - would have prompted behaviour...
Twenty-Five Yards of War
The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men inWorld War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
From the sinking decks of a navy cruiser to the cockpit of a doomed B-25 bomber, Ronald J. Drez takes us to the front lines of World War II.
Through Drez's gripping narrative style, we meet twelve men, all ordinary soldiers, and learn what the war was like through their eyes, experiencing their...
W.C. Fields by Himself
His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. Now his grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of previously unpublished material into...
The Pirate Queen
Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers,...
The Perfect Machine
Building the Palomar Telescope
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror...
Edison
The Man Who Made the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent...
by Ronald Kloots
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Authentic Story on Creating a Strategic Content Marketing PlanReading about marketing is primarily for marketers, right? In the end, most people are just interested in one question: what is in it for me? Taking this no-nonsense approach, this story is presented in the form of a practical example...
Laura Bush
An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush’s footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?
“I think I’ll just be Laura Bush,” she...
The Second Bounce Of The Ball
Turning Risk Into Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMES
In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is...
Hitler's Art Thief
Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank...
by Ronald Giphart
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Liam, de twintigjarige zoon van de wereldberoemde fotograaf McDonald Hope (roepnaam Mac), sluit zich op in een Zweedse boshut om zijn debuutroman te schrijven. Hoofdpersoon is zijn vader, die zelf nooit veel heeft losgelaten over zijn flamboyante verleden. Aan de hand van foto’s, geruchten en gesprekken...