Wallis: 286 books

"Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas Monthly Popular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has...

“Countless books have been written about the infamous outlaw ... this is surely one of the best.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review In this revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis re-creates the rich anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859–1881), a young man who...

“A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down. . . . Superb.”— New York Times Book Review "WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they...

After fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, God's Politics not only changed the conversation about faith and politics in this country, it began a movement. All across the country, wherever Jim Wallis spoke, people were frustrated by tax cuts and budgets that widened the gap between...

The collapse of financial systems and the resulting economic crisis have caused a growing distrust of the way things operate. Why has the global economy become so unfair, unsustainable, and unstable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A conversation about how the market should...

Legends of the Gods originally published in 1912 by Egyptologist Alfred Wallis Budge. It also includes the Book of the Heavenly Cow, or The Legend of the destruction of mankind,  an Ancient Egyptian text thought to have originated during the Amarna Period and, in part, describes the reasons...

Osiris the king, was slain by his brother Set, dismembered, scattered, then gathered up and reconstituted by his wife Isis and finally placed in the underworld as lord and judge of the dead. He was worshipped in Egypt from archaic, pre-dynastic times right through the 4000-year span of classical...

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish. by E. A. Wallis Budge "THIS brochure, The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish, was originally written by the late Keeper of the Department, SIR ERNEST WALLIS BUDGE, LITT.D., F.S.A. It is now re-issued in...

EGYPTIAN IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE By Sir Wallis Budge A prolific Victorian Egyptologist explores, in this class book first published in 1899, the position of Ra, Osiris, Set, and Isis among the diverse pantheon of numerous deities of ancient Egypt, as well as their domination of the collective...

'Schuld' van Mel Wallis de Vries: deze jeugdthriller lees je in één adem uit. Mel Wallis de Vries won drie keer de Prijs van de Jonge Jury met haar thrillers 'Vals', 'Klem' en 'Wreed'. Kort na elkaar plegen enkele leerlingen zelfmoord. Er lijkt geen verband tussen de jongeren te zijn. De politie...

'Haat' is een bloedstollende jeugdthriller van Mel Wallis de Vries, meervoudig winnares van de Prijs van de Jonge Jury. Zij overtreft zichzelf met elke jeugdthriller. Een vreselijk ongeluk. Maar dat is slechts het begin… Nikki wordt wakker in een park, gewond en onder het bloed. In haar handen houdt...

Pijn is de nieuwste jeugdthriller van de succesvolle schrijfster en vijfvoudig winnares van de Prijs van de Jonge Jury, Mel Wallis de Vries. Op een prachtige, warme nazomeravond wordt het levenloze lichaam van een meisje gevonden. De dader heeft haar laatste minuten op Snapchat gedeeld. Het...

Wreed is de nieuwe bestseller van Mel Wallis de Vries, de koningin van de Nederlandse jeugdthriller. Dit boek lees je op het puntje van je stoel! Wat als je ergste nachtmerrie werkelijkheid wordt en er niemand meer is om je te helpen? Langzaam en verward komt Danielle bij bewustzijn. Ze is geblinddoekt...

There is a war going on in our nation's political discourse. Polarizing labels--left/right, Republican/Democrat, young/old, rich/poor, traditional/progressive--define and divide us. And in the process we've lost a vision for the common good. Jim Wallis believes our life together can be better....