Roy: 2801 books

An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about...

**An inspirational travel book describing stunning bicycle journeys around the world.**In a bold attempt to combat inevitable dotage, Roy Sinclair set off to discover the world (more correctly, selected parts of it) by pedal power. In doing so, frequently accompanied by his Japanese partner, he experienced...

Science and faith hang in the balance for one atheistically Inclined scientist, until his life is turned around by events he can only categorize as miraculous, which launches him into a powerful Christian ministry alongside his professional work. A personal memoir of events that have shaped...

Following on from Roy Bhaskar’s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism,  Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory—and thence emancipatory—critique. Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation...

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions with respect to the total being of the human, and how it curbs the ontological sensibilities of the human....

'Who is a Caymanian?' 'What should be the nature of the relationship between "established Caymanians" and “expatriate Caymanians" in arriving at a definition?'J.A. (Roy) Bodden argues that Caymanian society is based on a synergistic and symbiotic relationship between expatriates and...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional...

Thunderghost involves the hijacking of an American space Shuttle as part of a plan that had been activated prior to Glasnost and Perestroika, but which got carried through by the hardliners in the Military and Intelligence Services without the knowledge of Mr. Gorbachev, who was put under house arrest...

Every year on the first Sunday in August, hundreds gather to see one of the greatest displays of historic commercial vehicles. First organised in 1969, the Trans Pennine Run attracts an annual entry of around 200 vehicles coming from all over the UK.The event starts at Birch Services on the M62 at...

L'avocate Fabienne Roy-Nansion est apparue aux journaux télévisés en décembre 2013. Elle venait de se porter volontaire pour défendre Fabienne Kabou, la mère d'Adélaïde, 15 mois, noyée sur la plage de Berck. Sa plaidoirie marquera l'opinion révoltée par cet infanticide. Les grands...

Judge Roy English has probably seen or heard it all in his courtroom. And now that he is retired and getting a little older, his country wisdom appeals to all who’ve had a few “senior moments” or who refuse to just sit back and grow old gracefully.  Hard-won and universal wisdom from...

Book Description 1944, Kohima - a small, sleepy twon in northeast India. Subhash Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army (INA) along with the Japanese, are on the brink of brining the Empire to its knees and forcing the british out of India. But, inexplicably, the tables trun. The INS's...

Extraordinary biography of one of the UK's most famous mediums, Ena Twigg. Describes her psychic life, from childhood through to being a professional medium, acting as a channel between this life and the next. Veteran psychic investigator Roy Stemman reveals her to be a reluctant medium, to whom...

The Battle of Echo Canyon By: Roy Gonzalez In the turbulent years of the settling of the West, two great leaders are destined to meet in what is the most unique, unconventional battle of the old West. Indian Chief Eagle Beak, the great leader of a large band of Indians, crosses paths with the...