West: 2498 books
by Philip E West
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Philip E West is recognised as one of the world's finest aviation artists. Collectors of his original oil paintings span the globe, many waiting patiently for his next breath-taking canvas to appear. With more than 100 limited editions behind him, a waiting list of commissioned paintings for clients...
Conservation Is Our Government Now
The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses...
The Whisky Wedding
a Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet story
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
**She wakes up Mrs. Darcy with no idea how it happened! **
When Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice learns of her sister's elopement before leaving for the Peaks District, she and her aunt are off to Scotland to chase the wayward couple. Inn after inn, there is no sign...
The March Up
Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe.
With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line...
No one reporting...
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker
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Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern....
The Last Indian War:The Nez Perce Story
The Nez Perce Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted...
by Chris West
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Stamps tell a story-and Chris West's book is the unique, fascinating tale of Great Britain told through its stamps.
Hailed by The Times of London as "a splendid reminder of the philatelic glories of the past," A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps tells the rich, layered, and...
The Snake Eaters
Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
WHEN A DOZEN UNPREPARED AMERICAN ARMY RESERVISTS ARE DROPPED OFF on an isolated Iraqi outpost with orders to be its military advisors, they have no idea that what they will really be doing is fighting. With no training to fall back on, this group—including a guitarist, a DEA agent, a plumber, and...
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future in Rebecca West’s posthumously published semi-autobiographical novel
Star of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-time—and married—lover, Lord Essington,...
Keeping Faith
Philosophy and Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - Artforum
Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from...
The Death of the Grown-Up
How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single adult left anywhere?" But, the grown-ups are all gone. The disease that killed them was incubated in...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
A “long-shot” or “underdog” would best describe the former governor of Tennessee, James Knox Polk, who had lost two reelection bids and now sought his party’s vice-presidential nomination. Events unfolded rapidly at the Democratic convention in the warm summer of 1844. James Polk had hoped...
by Gabriella West
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
"I want to be more like the islands themselves: warm, spicy, tolerating storms of rain and wind, beautiful, fertile, changeable, adventurous, enduring."
In this honest and compelling short travel memoir, the author and her partner, Selena, travel to Kauai, Hawaii's garden island,...
Billionaires
Reflections on the Upper Crust
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know.
With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires...