Tucker: 805 books

From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital. This primer explores the history of...

In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between photography and scientific authority. Almost immediately...

On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian...

The telling of an unlikely friendship, "Before a Canyon" shares one man's surprising experience working with marginalized children in the barrio of South Phoenix, his time in school, out of school, and beyond school.  Jeremy Tucker befriends a student, Victor, and navigates barriers in...

This free study guide is designed to deepen the reading experience of Shirley Mowat Tucker's "Diamonds in the Dust." Book club leaders will appreciate having a ready-to-print reader's guide to help them facilitate their small reading groups at their local library or church. The study guide...

Smoldering corporate bad boy. Hot British DJ. Irresistible secret boyfriend. Dark-eyed guitar player. Join authors Amanda Hill, Sarah Tucker, Tyne O'Connell and Jody Gehrman on four rollercoaster rides from London to L.A. and from wrong to oh-so-right. LOVE LIKE THAT by Amanda Hill Handsome,...

"A Perfect Yesterday" is Ann L. Tucker's insightful personal recollection of her teenage interracial friendship in 1970 with a young man named George. Parental pressure forced her to discontinue their friendship, but she never forgot George, who handled the abrupt ending of their relationship...

A novel of the Civil War set in Kentucky and Tennessee and the story of a man who did not know who he was. Was Jerry Manning the son of a mad woman? A foundling abandoned by vagrants? Or the supposedly murdered child of a wealthy family? Would he find the answer during the turmoil of the War Between the States?

The Spanish Cavalier Charlotte Maria Tucker, writer and poet for children and adults, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E., a Lady of England (1821-1893) This ebook presents «The Spanish Cavalier», from Charlotte Maria Tucker. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...

“A riveting tale of warfare in the not too distant future. Tucker takes his technological know-how as a former nuclear submariner and masterfully weaves it into a sensational thriller that will leave you pondering the land- and sea-scape of armed conflicts yet to come. A gifted writer first, Tucker...

He awoke in Chicago with a name no one had ever heard and discovered that he was a private eye. And the year was 1940, but a 1940 that somehow he knew was not historical. For no one knew of Hitler and the Axis and the European war that would engulf the world. Fairies and trolls were among the city’s...

They came to decadent America, tottering toward insurrection: The Zebonites, beings from a distant star had promised astounding medical and scientific advances in exchange for allowing them to set up a military stronghold in Florida's Everglades. Excited by their promises humanity's advancementof,...

After his adventures in other dimensions based on Arthurian legend and H. Rider Haggard’s Africa, Hal Morgan finds himself hurled into an alternate reality based upon the operas of Richard Wagner. There Hal must locate the stolen Ring of the Nibelungs and return it to the Rhine Maidens, before its...

Back to Eden Gardening: The Easy Organic Way to Grow Food Do you want a self-sustaining garden? Are you looking for natural organic gardening methods that work? Do you want to have healthy, nutrition filled fruits and vegetables? Then Back to Eden Gardening: The Easy Organic...