Ross: 3639 books
Spacewalker
My Journey in Space and Faith as Nasa's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched astronaut in history, as well as a NASA veteran whose career spanned the entire US Space...
Tuscan Spaces
Literary Constructions of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M....
by Lillian Ross
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker's Lillian Ross, and named one of the "Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century."
Lillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an...
by Stephen Ross
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Are you, or a loved one, desperate to stop smoking once and for all? Do you think you will never stop? In: “Smoking - The Secret Art Of Stopping”, Stephen Ross shows how he, and his friends quit after thirty years of chain smoking, with minimum drama, little effort, and absolutely no willpower!...
Mission Possible
The Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation (LAAD) was one of many initiatives taken at the height of the Cold War to alleviate poverty in countries threatened by communist insurgencies. Its mission was to promote rural development by funding local agribusiness enterprises to create new...
A Cancer in the Family
Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer**
There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 1.3 million of these...
by Ross Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Join Ross Andrews on his journey through the magical haunts of the Forest of Dean. A ghost hunter for over twenty years, Ross takes the reader on an adventure right into the heart of the forest, revealing the most haunted tourist attractions so that you can go into them and investigate for yourself....
Reflections on Blue Water
Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
'This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War......
by Ross Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Ross Curtis shot his first deer at the age of 8, by the age of 12 he was keeping the family in meat by hunting and doing his schooling by correspondence. Naturally as soon as he was old enough he became a Government deer culler. This book covers and era of deer control under the direction of the Internal...
Selected Poetry
2012-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
In this selection of her poems, chosen and arranged by the poet, you’ll find consolation and inspiration.
Here are poems that offer shifting interpretations of identity, poems that rework ancient Irish blessings, poems about life and liberty and the conditions for happiness.
Exploring...
by Shatieka Ross
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Poetry based on the true loves and true failures with love by Shatieka Ross.
Paddy Mayne
Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
"Paddy" Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of World War II. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander in the Commandos and then the SAS, whose leader he later became and whose annals he graced, winning...
Surviving Crazy
A Roadmap to the Scars
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Life as author Melissa L. Ross knew it was not only emotionally and mentally challenging, but also a harmful, physical journey. In Surviving Crazy, she narrates her lifes story, sharing how she navigated the rough periods of mental illness.
In the memoir, Ross describes not only the sporadic...
by Kristin Ross
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2015
L’Imaginaire de la Commune est autant un livre d’histoire des idées que d’histoire tout court. En exhumant l’originalité de la Commune, ses aspirations à un « luxe pour tous », Kristin Ross arrache la Commune de Paris à toute finalité étatiste, productiviste, d’un socialisme de caserne....