Remarkable Service

Reducere. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Ban...

Reducere. Throughout human history, dogs have performed service tasks for us. Some of the earliest documented cases occurred during the First World War. Do N...

Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, have entered another world - without leaving this one! Two remarkable talents, New York Times...

Formed in 1938, the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service was a remarkable legion of women; this is their story.

Reducere. Too many doctors spend their careers dedicated to building a busy practice at the expense of their own health, happiness, marriage, or children. Wh...

Not all heroic dogs wildly toss themselves into lifesaving situations. Some save lives simply by their incredible commitment to duty and service. S...

An Irishman in the U.S Marine Corps, Charles U. Daly thinks fighting in Korea will be an adventure and a way to live up to a family tradition of se...

An Irishman in the U.S Marine Corps, Charles U. Daly thinks fighting in Korea will be an adventure and a way to live up to a family tradition of se...

Reducere. Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the i...

Reducere. How to find the soft innovation that will make your product, service, school, church, or career worth talking about. We live in an era of too much ...

DescriptionSauces Reconsidered: Apr s Escoffier replaces the traditional French hierarchy of sauces with a modern version based on the sauces' phys...

This is the remarkable story of one man's service in the Royal Navy, RAF and the Royal Naval Reserve Air Branch of the Fleet Air Arm.Publisher: Pen...

For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for r...

Reducere. For five decades, comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) traveled the world performing before American and Allied tr...

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Reducere. DescriptionA biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through ...

Working on the Frontline of Mental Health is an account of the day-to-day work in psychological therapies, highlighting the complexities patients p...

"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, No...

Reducere. Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern presents a heartwarming and humorous middle grade novel about the remarkable bond that forms between an...

Reducere. Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern presents a heartwarming and humorous middle grade novel about the remarkable bond that forms between an...

Reducere. Power couples aren't a modern phenomenon. The greatest American couple ever to have served America in a public capacity was the country's fourth pr...

Reducere. Although its brown vans are on every block and its delivery service reaches more than 200 countries, UPS is among the world's most underestimated a...

DescriptionWashington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental ...

Reducere. Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest ma...

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The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. ...

Reducere. Jerry Mernin's distinguished career in the National Park Service spanned four decades, five national parks, and a remarkable 32-year stay in Yellow...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles C. Flint's life story reveals the Political life of a pioneer Black man in service to his community and uplifting of his people....

Reducere. These 57 short stories are an entertaining introduction to the history of Cleveland, Ohio, for natives and newcomers alike. They hit the highlights...

In WILDLIFE'S QUIET WAR, Terry Grosz continues to chronicle his remarkable career defending America's voiceless wild creatures. Since his first day...

Born into one of the wealthiest families in America--he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated pat...

Mary Edwards Walker was unconventional for her time: She was one of the first women doctors in the country, she was a suffragist, and she wore pant...

To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber to serve in ...

Reducere. The Peregrine s Journey vividly describes one of the most remarkable feats in the animal kingdom. Beginning in Alaska and ending two months later i...

A century of adventures, beliefs and musings come to life in Lundie's Stories. The fourth generation Wyoming pioneer tells his tales with sensitivi...

Reducere. Confederate brigadier general John Adams refused to leave his men despite his own critical injuries and died at the Battle of Franklin. Until recen...

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The remarkable, emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, from the critically aclaimed A...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mauricio L. MillerClara Miller, President of the F. B. Heron Foundation: The Alternative, is not only important reading, it...

Reducere. The New Jersey Central's Blue Comet passenger train service operated from 1929 to 1941, on a route from the New York metropolitan area to Atlantic ...

Reducere. The ten van Stralen brothers built The Grounds Guys(R), their landscape management company, from the ground up. By establishing a "culture of C.A.R...

Reducere. The Western Maryland Railway was never a large Class 1 rail carrier, but during its 131 colorful years of existence, it provided extremely fast, ef...

Now available in paperback Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vita...

A #1 internationally bestselling novel set in post-Civil War Spain by the author of Dominion and the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery seriesSeptembe...

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to ...

Perfect for fans of The Founder, this is the real-life story of the world's premier entrepreneurial success. The growth of McDonald's worldwide con...

Reducere. Few people have experienced Yellowstone National Park as thoroughly as Michael Yochim, a former Yellowstone ranger and guide. From visits to the pa...

Reducere. Comet's Tale is a story about a friendship between two former winners, both a little down on their luck, who together stage a remarkable comeback. ...

Reducere. DescriptionA new, annotated edition of an important slave narrative first published in 1922. Written by William Henry Singleton, who had been a sla...

Reducere. When the Strasburg Rail Road was chartered in 1832, no one anticipated the myriad of obstacles the short line would encounter. What began as an aft...

DescriptionCapitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write l...

Reducere. Fiction. African & African American Studies. Navy veteran Steven Dunn's second novel, WATER & POWER, plunges into military culture and engages with...

Reducere. Living with the Soul is an autobiography of a modern day saint, a collection of interviews with a superior individual, who has been recognized arou...

Reducere. In the pre-digital era, the age of mechanical reproduction, the New York Public Library's Picture Collection provided the free circulation of print...

Reducere. In this deeply intimate and soulful memoir about her father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the serious figure the p...

Reducere. Everyone thought Cedd Moses had lost his mind when he used his life savings to open ten bars in struggling Downtown Los Angeles. Not only would tho...

"Sarah Glidden's remarkable Rolling Blackouts adds a new twist to thegraphic journalism] form. Glidden accompanies a team of journalists through Sy...

Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist. You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. ...

Reducere. While Paramahansa Yogananda may have been better known, Anandamurti was arguably the twentieth century's most interesting and controversial spiritu...

Contributor(s): Author: Marco PoloIntroduction by: Milton RugoffAfterword by: Howard MittelmarkHis journey through the East began in 1271--when, st...

Reducere. ``Not I, but Christ.``That brief phrase reflects our complete dependency on Jesus for everything that the Christian life is about, from right stand...

Reducere. Hurston/Wright LEGACY AwardAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom and of the knowled...

'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is ...

Reducere. Now a major motion picture -Sully- from Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating Ameri...

No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned scientist Suzanne Simard. Now she shares the secrets of a life...

Reducere. A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments--his success in seizing India's i...

DescriptionIn this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, ...

Reducere. Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE's first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the Geor...

Reducere. Wyoming's Chief Game Warden, Jay Lawson, has chronicled the life histories of some of the most colorful outdoor men and women of early 20th Century...

This remarkable book brings together for the first time writings of RAF 100 Group who, during WWII, flew secret operations deep into the heart of G...