Ward: 2405 books
by Dayton Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2002
1969: Captain John Christopher of the U.S. Air Force has just returned from a most peculiar mission to investigate a UFO sighting. But even though the mission took only a few minutes, the captain has vague memory flashes of futuristic humans, a pointy-eared alien named Spock, and a ship called The...
by Scott Ciencin, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
A TURNING POINT FOR THE STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS!
After the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the S.C.E. crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci is in disarray. Half of the ship's complement were killed at Galvan VI, and the survivors must put their lives back together. Corsi, accompanied by Stevens, tries...
The Vietnam War
An Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
More than forty years...
The Practicing Stoic
A Philosophical User's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Stoicism is the most helpful and practical philosophy ever devised. Its intention is to help people find happiness by thinking differently about their lives and their problems. The advice the Stoics provided centuries ago is still the best anyone has offered, and it’s as useful today as it was then—or...
Themistocles
The Towering Oak
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
This is a historical novel about Themistocles, the Greek general of the fifth century B.C. whose accomplishments have been downplayed for too many centuries.It was Themistocles who led his countrymen to victory in the decisive battle against the Persians in 480 B.C.--the Battle of Salamis.Had it not...
Harvard Classics Volume 43
American Historical Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Gong Hee Fot Choy Book of Fortune revised
A Fortune-Telling Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Foretell the future using a deck of regular playing cards and a divination game, which traces its origins to the principles of astrology and Chinese numerology.
The familiar Gong hee fot choy! means "greetings of riches," and confirms the ancient belief that life's odds are three-to-one...
by Samuel D. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Vice Admiral Joseph P. Metcalf, III commanded the largest American joint military operation since the Vietnam War on the small Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983. This paper focuses on Metcalf’s operational leadership during Operation URGENT FURY. It begins by providing the readers an introduction...
Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy
Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy is a collection of nine new essays on philosophical elements in Jefferson’s writings. The first of its kind, this collection should lead to further philosophical analysis of Jefferson’s thinking—especially by philosophers, who tend to appreciate Jefferson only...
Impassioned Jurisprudence
Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its...
Dambusters The Forging of a Legend
617 Squadron in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
617 Squadron of 5 Group RAF Bomber Command was without doubt the most famous RAF Squadron in World War II. It was formed to carry out the precision low-level attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams, using Barnes Wallace’s newly developed rotating mine, now commonly referred to as ‘The Bouncing...
The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society
War and Society in the United States, 1775-83
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The War fo Independence had a substantial impact on the lives of all Americans, establishing a nation and confirming American identity. The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society focuses on a conflict which was both civil war and revolution and assesses how Americans met the...
London
A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world-wide prominence, during which it dominated the economic, political, social and cultural...
7 Words You Should Know
Dad’S Advice for the Journey Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Seven Words You Should Know: Dads Advice for the Journey Ahead was written to help teens, young adults, and adolescents grasp profound life principles in an easy-to-remember, uncomplicated way. It was also designed to give parents a starting point from which to share lifelong lessons and experiences...