Whitney: 626 books

For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All The Stops, New York Times journalist Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the American pipe organ and brings...

Faith Gartney's Girlhood Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, american poet and prolific writer (1824-1906) This ebook presents «Faith Gartney's Girlhood», from Adeline Dutton Train Whitney. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

On Material and Form in Language William Dwight Whitney, american linguist, philologist, and lexicographer (1827-1894) This ebook presents «On Material and Form in Language», from William Dwight Whitney. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

Logical Consistency in Views of Language   William Dwight Whitney, american linguist, philologist, and lexicographer (1827-1894) This ebook presents «Logical Consistency in Views of Language  », from William Dwight Whitney. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump...

This is a book about the mystery and the passion, the imagination, religion, and poetry, the philosophy, the intellectual flights—and, above all, the people—that have created the science of astronomy, from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the sixth century B.C. to today’s scientists...

The issues fueling the intricate plots of Shakespeare's four-hundred-year-old plays are the same common, yet complex issues that business leaders contend with today. And, as John Whitney and Tina Packer so convincingly demonstrate, no one but the Bard himself can penetrate the secrets of leadership...

The Fast Track 50: The Get-Ahead Guide for Temporary Employees is a simple system, designed by Tim Whitney, an in-the-trenches procurer of temp services and founder of the organization Tips for Temps. Whitney is an experienced business executive with an MBA in team-building, and his 50 tips, informed...

New York Times bestseller: A New Year’s Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to...

**From a New York Times–bestselling author: In nineteenth-century New England, a desperate young woman’s only refuge becomes an inescapable trap. It was fitting that Miranda Heath’s first glimpse of the forbidding home at Bascomb’s Point was in the fury of a thunderstorm. Despite her...

A Manhattan editor investigates her sister’s suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling “queen of the American gothics” (*TheNew York Times*).**   Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a prestigious New York City publisher, has arrived at a sprawling villa on...

As featured on Loose Women's Loose Books as their November book club pick. The Liar's Chair is Rebecca Whitney's stunning psychological thriller debut set in Brighton. Who can she trust If she can't trust herself? Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and...

A Chicago department store is the scene of gruesome crime in this mystery by a New York Times–bestselling Edgar Award winner. Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham’s, knows how to put a clever spin on everything. But she’s at a loss for words when, after closing...

A retreat to Greece becomes a dangerous trap for a grieving and haunted widow in this novel from “a superb and gifted storyteller” (Mary Higgins Clark). Ever since Dorcas Brandt’s husband, Gino Nikkaris, died in a plane crash, she’s been beset by troubling suspicions that his shady...

From a New York Times–bestselling author: In a lakeside mansion, a beautiful young bride becomes the snowbound prisoner of a dark family secret. When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life...