Through biographies of China’s most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives–biographies of China’s most colorful and famous personalities–including those of statesmen, philosophers, poets, and rulers, to …
Far more than a dictionary of saints, this beautifully illustrated book is an informative chronicle that explores the mysterious conditions of sainthood and tells the lives of the saints in a comprehensive and modern approach to this fascinating …
Combining comprehensive theoretical and empirical perspectives into a clearly organized text, Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition discusses the principal behavioral concepts of fluids and the basic methods of analysis for resolving a variety of engineering situations. Drawing on the author’s 35 years of experience, the book covers real-world engineering problems and concerns of performance, equipment operation, sizing, …
The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises packages the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with spiral binding, tabbed dividers, and more than 150 exercises. Concise and accessible, The Little, Brown Compact Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what …
Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth centuryIn April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the job, but Harry S. …
The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in historyLike its compulsively readable predecessors, The Intellectual Devotional Biographies is organized into seven categories, one for each day of the week. With their trademark wit and style, authors David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim offer an array of fascinating facts about major …
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding
In this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and ultimately how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country.Reach includes forty first-person accounts from well-known men like the Rev. Al Sharpton, John Legend, Isiah Thomas, Bill T. Jones, Louis …
The Original Wild Ones: Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club
Get an inside look at the real beginning of outlaw biker culture with this “raucous and heartfelt recounting of the early days of biker clubs” (Roadbike). The story starts one weekend in 1947, at a motorcycle race in Hollister, California. A few members of one club, the no-holds-barred “Boozefighters,” got a little juiced up and took …
In this practical guide to capturing those memories that have been stored away, Linda Spence provides the questions that are the keys to unlocking the memories that make up a life.Beyond the vital statistics are the personal stories that tell what it was like, what we did, and why we did it, how we feel about our choices, …
The Celebrity Black Book 2015: Over 50,000 Celebrity Addresses
The Celebrity Black Book 2015: Over 50,000+ Accurate Celebrity Addresses for Autographs, Charity & Nonprofit Fundraising, Celebrity Endorsements, Getting Publicity, Guerrilla Marketing & More!Includes a FREE 30-Day Test Drive to ContactAnyCelebrity.com ($49.95 Value!)Inside The Celebrity Black Book 2015, you’ll discover the verified mailing addresses for over 50,000+ celebrities and public figures worldwide.Everyone who is anyone is inside!Movie & TV …