William H : 870 books
by William H. Coles
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Mike Boudreaux, as a trauma surgeon Chief of Service, must discipline an impaired surgeon performing unnecessary and dangerous surgery for the obese. He is Boudreaux's former teacher and mentor, and Boudreaux falls in love with his young, beautiful, New-Orleans-socially-prominent wife. Boudreaux cannot...
by William H. Coles
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
A successful woman lawyer falls in love with a TV-evangelist accused of sexually molesting a child. She loses the case and while on appeal he escapes the country. She leaves family and new husband and child to follow him to Africa. She is faced with deep questions about who he really is and she returns...
Beyond the Revolution
A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, The birthday of a new world is at hand,” America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the world's first truly cosmopolitan...
by William H. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The Reformation was arm-in-arm with the Renaissance, and the world was turning upside down. Erasmus "laid the egg that hatched the Reformation," but he feared to be part of it. Luther did not have that fear. He nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to his church door and the Reformation began. Zwingli,...
Creating Literary Stories
A Fiction Writer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
An essential guide for every writer of fiction. Learn: Character, Narration, Structure, Dialogue, Point of View, Writing in Scene, Drama (Conflict-Action-Resolution), Humor, Revision William H. Coles is the award-winning author of short stories, essays on writing, interviews, and novels in...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
Patagonia Wild and Free
Memories of William H. Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In 1875, William Greenwood made his home in the wilds of Patagonia, a pioneer in the territory of Tehuelche Indians. There he guided expeditions into the unmapped Interior. He lived by hunting wild cattle and horses, pumas and guanacos, foxes and ostriches, then trading their hides, pelts and feathers...
Creating Literary Stories
A Fiction Writer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
An essential guide for every writer of fiction. Learn: Character, Narration, Structure, Dialogue, Point of View, Writing in Scene, Drama (Conflict-Action-Resolution), Humor, Revision William H. Coles is the award-winning author of short stories, essays on writing, interviews, and novels in...
by William H. Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
William Crookes' long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1913. Throughout his career he was an important science journalist, the discoverer of thallium, the inventor of the radiometer, investigator of cathode...
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century
1948-1988 The Man Who Learned Better
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century: 1948-1988 The Man Who Learned Better: The real-life story of Robert A. Heinlein in the second volume of the authorized biography by William H. Patterson!
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) is generally considered the greatest American science...
Through Prison Bars
The Lives and Labours of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A fascinating look—first published in 1894—at two philanthropists known as the “Prisoner’s Friends” and the early history of prison reform.
Prisons in England were once dark, inhumane places lacking any regulations. The facilities were poorly managed and unsanitary, and prisoners...
Bill and Hillary
The Politics of the Personal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, the distinguished historian William H. Chafe boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons' political lives can be understood only through the prism of their personal relationship. Each experienced a difficult childhood. Bill had an abusive stepfather,...
by William H. Danforth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
American entrepreneur and philanthropist William H. Danforth dares you to be better tomorrow than you are today by observing his fourfold development model: mental, physical, social, and spiritual.
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
Markets, Speculation and the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
The innovation economy begins with discovery and culminates in speculation. Over some 250 years, economic growth has been driven by successive processes of trial and error: upstream exercises in research and invention and downstream experiments in exploiting the new economic space opened by innovation....