Turner Publishing Company: 2181 books
by Michael Paymar, MPA
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
• Written by the co-founder of the nationally recognized Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project and executive director and co-founder Education for Critical Thinking (ECT). • Previous Edition Sales History: 17,300 tr, 150 ebook • As a Minnesota Congressman, the author wrote landmark trafficking...
by V. E. Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
A fascinating account of one of the most successful spying operations of World War II
Long recognized as one of the most successful (and ruthless) spy networks in history, the Red Orchestra was a group of Soviet cells that operated throughout Germany and occupied Europe until late 1943. The...
Restoring Life's Missing Pieces
The Spiritual Power of Remembering and Reuniting with People, Places, Things and Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A powerful and thought-provoking look at "reunions" of all kinds as roads to remembering and re-membering ourselves.
“Reunions with people, places, things, and ourselves happen every day around us and within us. Whether to participate or not will always be your choice.”
—from...
Spiritually Incorrect
Finding God in All the Wrong Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Spirituality is full of rules. You need to find your own way straight through them.
Will tattoos and convertibles keep you from finding "true" spiritual fulfillment?
Some people claim that you cannot truly achieve spiritual fulfillment if you’re not a vegetarian. Some say you’ll...
The Inextinguishable Symphony
A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Advance Praise for the Inextinguishable Symphony "A Fascinating Insight into a Virtually Unknown Chapter of Nazi Rule in Germany, Made all the More Engaging through a Son's Discovery of His Own Remarkable Parents." -Ted Koppel, ABC News "An Immensely Moving and Powerful Description...
A Shattered Peace
Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles created the circumstances that led inevitably to World War II. Less acknowledged and understood is the treaty’s profound impact on many other parts of the world—an impact that echoes to this day in the Middle...
Woodward and Bernstein
Life in the Shadow of Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, Woodward and Bernstein takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time,...
Farewell, Titanic
Her Final Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April...
by Harlow Giles Unger
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007
Acclaim for Lafayette
"I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions-one might even say his two lives-the French and the American. It also captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail."...
DEFCON-2
Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The closest we've ever come to the end of the world
"DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar and Gresham sketch the personalities...
Skies to Conquer
A Year Inside the Air Force Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
A former New York Times reporter's year behind the scenes at the scandal-ridden Air Force Academy
Diana Jean Schemo covered the Air Force Academy's sexual assault scandal in 2003, one of a series of academy embarrassments that have included drug use, rape complaints, and charges of evangelical...
The Great Beyond
Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr,...
by John Gribbin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A lively, fascinating biography of the father of quantum mechanics by the bestselling author of the science classic, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his famous “Schrödinger's Cat” paradox, is one of the most famous physicists of the early twentieth century...
AK-47
The Weapon that Changed the Face of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
No single weapon has spread so much raw power to so many people in so little time—and had such a devastating effect—as the AK-47 assault rifle. This book examines the legacy of this world-changing weapon, from its creation as means of fighting the Nazis to its ubiquity today in every kind of conflict, from civil wars in Africa to gang wars in L.A.