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Taming the Elephant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Taming the Elephant

The final of four volumes in the 'California History Sesquicentennial Series', this text compiles original essays which treat the consequential role of post-Gold Rush California government, politics and law in the building of a dynamic state with lasting impact to the present day.

Why Courage Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Why Courage Matters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-04-13
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  • Publisher: Random House

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear. “We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action despite our fears,” McCain reminds us, as a way of introducing the stories of figures both famous and obscure that he finds most compelling—from the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to Sgt. Roy Benavidez, who ignored his own well-being to rescue eight of his men from an ambush in the Vietnam jungle; from 1960s civil rights leader John Le...

Lift Up Your Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Lift Up Your Heart

Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: First-Time Author, Spirituality Softcover (First Place) and a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Inspirational (Second Place). For more than four-hundred years, Introduction to the Devout Life by Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales has been regarded as the essential guide to holiness and loving God. This spiritual classic takes on new life in Lift Up Your Heart, where Rev. John Burns has interpreted ten meditations for the modern reader and distilled them into a ten-day mini-retreat that can easily be completed in the midst of a busy life. This practical book goes right to the heart of helping you kick the habit of floating...

Hack
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Hack

There were two splashes in London that night—the first was a body dropping into the Thames with a bullet hole in its head, and the second was tabloid crime hack Max Chard's exclusive story on the killing. But murder is only half the yarn. Meet the lovable, alcohol-soaked, womanizing rogue, Max Chard, in this terrific expose of the world of tabloid journalism.

Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 545

Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Presents biographical details of 391 eponyms and names in the field, along with the context and relevance of their contributions.

Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 696

Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

List Pulitzer Prize winners in thirty-nine different categories, arranged chronologically, with biographical and career information, selected works, other awards, and a brief commentary, along with material on Pulitzer.

Recording Historic Structures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Recording Historic Structures

This new edition of the definitive guide to recording America's built environment provides a detailed reference to the re-cording methods and techniques that are fundamental tools for examining any existing structure. Edited by the Deputy Chief of the Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, this revised edition includes in-formation on recent technological advances such as laser scanning, new case studies, and expanded material on the docu-mentation of historic landscapes.

Electoral Politics Is Not Enough
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Electoral Politics Is Not Enough

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-01-20
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Examines how and why government leaders understand and respond to African Americans and Latinos in northeastern cities with strong political traditions.

John Burns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

John Burns

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Portraits of an Artist
  • Language: en

Portraits of an Artist

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-06-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Portraits of an Artist: A Novel about John Singer Sargent is a work of historical fiction based on the life of a brilliant yet troubled artist of the late nineteenth century. A contemporary and associate of famous celebrities such as Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Edward Burne-Jones and Sarah Bernhardt, Sargent's meteoric rise to fame followed by his striking fall from grace, and his retreat to London from Paris, are the tragic underpinnings of his unforgettable career. The stories behind two of his finest paintings, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" and "Madame X", are also explored in context. Told in first-person perspective from the points of view of numerous individuals who figured prom...