Shaw: 2106 books
Thumbprint in the Clay
Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
"The thumbprint . . . is for me a singular clue to human identity. . . . Just as each human thumbprint is unique, its pattern inscribed on the work of our hands and minds, the Creator's is even more so—the original thumbprints on the universe," declares poet Luci Shaw. We worship an endlessly...
The Poison Patriarch
How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An “ominous” investigation into how the corruption of the Kennedy clan inadvertently led to the events of November 22, 1963 (The New Yorker).
Investigative journalist Mark Shaw maintains that researchers who have studied the murder of President John F. Kennedy have been deciphering the...
Short Stories
Five Decades
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist.
Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction,...
Sea Wolf of the Confederacy
The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture....
Collected Fiction
The Young Lions, Bread Upon the Waters, Short Stories: Five Decades, and The Troubled Air
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Three acclaimed novels plus collected short fiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of Rich Man, Poor Man.
The Young Lions: Irwin Shaw’s *New York Times–*bestselling debut is widely considered one of the four great World War II novels, along with From Here to Eternity, The Naked...
by S. B. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Children’s Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer
S. B. SHAW [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]
FIRST PREFACE For many years in our work among children, we have felt the need of something similar to this book. The cuts are made especially for this work....
by Haydn Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This collection bundles 2 of popular author Haydn Shaw’s books together in one e-book, for a great value!
Sticking Points
This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the...
Leading in the Innovation Age
Unleash knowledge, talent and experience to create an innovative workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Today’s Innovation age requires a new style of leader! One that understands the importance of creating workplaces that are vibrant and future-ready, filled with people who are adaptive, life-long learners eager to participate in the innovation imperative. Leading in the innovation Age progressively...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Candida, a comedy by playwright G. Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A choice selection of one-act plays from the Nobel Prize for Literature and Academy Award winning playwright George Bernard Shaw.Includes:• Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce• The Dark Lady of the Sonnets• How He Lied to Her Husband• The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta• Overruled• Press Cuttings
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Originally published in George Bernard Shaw's 1901 collection "Three Plays for Puritans" and first performed in 1900, "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" is the drama of its title character, a sort of refined latter-day pirate who resides in Morocco. When two jaded English tourists, Sir Howard Hallam,...