William L : 574 books
William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey
The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return (1945-1988)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
World-renowned journalist and best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer was an important witness to the rise of Nazi Germany.The Start (1904-1930): In the first of a three-volume series, he tells the story of his early life. The Nightmare Years (1930-1940):...
William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
William Rowe is one of the leading thinkers in contemporary philosophy of religion. Although he is best known for his contributions to the problem of evil, he has produced innovative and influential work across a wide array of subjects at the interface between philosophy and religion. He has, for...
Injustice On Appeal
The United States Courts of Appeals in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The United States Circuit Courts of Appeals are among the most important governmental institutions in our society. However, because the Supreme Court can hear less than 150 cases per year, the Circuit Courts (with a combined caseload of over 60,000) are, for practical purposes, the courts of last...
Slavery and Class in the American South
A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their respective masters." Henry Bibb, fugitive...
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
William L. Riordan
“Nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft.”
This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures...
by William L. Shirer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
A concise and timely account of Hitler’s—and fascism’s—rise to power and ultimate defeat, from one of America’s most famous journalists.
American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany—and had a front-row seat to Hitler’s mounting...
by William L. Shirer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
The author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII.
By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign...
Dawn Over Zero
The Story of the Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
On August 6, 1945, the world was electrified by the news that an American Army bomber had dropped an atomic bomb, with an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, on the important Japanese military center of Hiroshima. Three days later another bomb, of improved design and even greater power,...
by Lt. William L. Newnan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
During the bloody fighting of the Second World War the hills, river valleys and hellish attrition of the Italian campaign are often overlooked as a sideshow. However some of the toughest fighting and heroic actions of the entire period took place in the beautiful but deadly Italian countryside; one...
Confederacy of Ambition
William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of...
Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.
Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most...
by William B. Carey, MD, Allen C. Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The fourth edition of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics—the pioneering, original text— emphasizes children’s assets and liabilities, not just categorical labels. It includes fresh perspectives from new editors—Drs. William Coleman, Ellen Elias, and Heidi Feldman, as well as further contributions...
In the Hands of the People
The Trial Jury's Origins, Triumphs, Troubles, and Future in American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
In a passionate warning that is not only well-reasoned, as becomes a renowned former trial lawyer and present federal judge, but is also a compelling and entertaining read, William L. Dwyer defies those who would abolish our jury system and hand over its power to judges or to panels of "experts."...
Steve Jobs
L'uomo che ha inventato il futuro
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Dalle riunioni con gli sviluppatori ai laboratori di design, dalle prove di forza con il consiglio di amministrazione al mondo fuori dalla Silicon Valley: questo è il VERO Steve Jobs, la storia autentica di un ragazzo prodigio che ha trasformato la tecnologia e il mondo in cui viviamo, il nostro...