Man of the Century
Man of the Century

Author: John Ramsden

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9780231131063

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Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.

Liars and Legends
Liars and Legends

Author: Emily Ellison

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2005-04-09

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1418557943

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Everyone loves a good story. And Liars and Legends contains 40 of the South's most interesting and . . . well . . . just plain curious stories. This book grows out of the popular Turner South television show, Liars and Legends and will be promoted on the show. George Lindsey, who just began as host of the show, will be available for promotion as well. Attractively designed in a square format, each story will have 4 to 8 pictures that will enhance the story by letting the readers see for themselves the weird, strange, and interesting things that occur in the South.

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Author: Frank O'Hara

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1995-03-31

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 9780520201668

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Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.

San Diego Legends
San Diego Legends

Author: Jack Scheffler Innis

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780932653642

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San Diego journalist Jack Innis describes the many fascinating people and events that influenced the development of San Diego, plus the colorful characters and groups that made headlines in the past century. The book is silled with contemporary photos of historic landmarks and places, as well as vintage illustrations and photographs.

Legendary Locals of Ukiah
Legendary Locals of Ukiah

Author: Darline Bergere

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-03-16

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439650373

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Mountains. Trees. A lake. What makes a city, town, or village come to life are the people--those who have gone before and those who are there today. They are what shape and build the community of Ukiah. With their personalities, foibles, compassion, and humor, some of these influential men and women stand out by design and some quietly exist on the sidelines. Utah Haley, a disabled veteran, drives other veterans to doctors' appointments. Rick Paige is always the first on-scene to help in a disaster. Spencer Brewer started the "Sundays in the Park" free concerts more than two decades ago. Ukiah is a town that supports its businesses, and those same local businesses give back to the community in many ways. Shannon Riley of Shoefly and Sox holds an annual shoe drive. Jan Hoyman and Doug Browe of Hoyman Browe Studios donate countless pieces of their work to charitable auctions. Ann Kilkenny of Mendocino Book Company gives time and assistance to local organizations. Marty Lombardi, who spent 40 years with Savings Bank of Mendocino, was always lending a helping hand to local nonprofits.

The Mustangs
The Mustangs

Author: J. Frank Dobie

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780803266506

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J. Frank Dobie?s history of the ?mustang??from the Spanish meste_a, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers?tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West.

Bats and Bat Banding
Bats and Bat Banding

Author: Arthur Merwin Greenhall

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Banding bats for later recognition is a productive method of studying bats in the wild. The success of a banding program depends on two things: First, if the resulting data are to be useful, banding procedures must be standardized as far as possible; second, interest of the general public must be stimulated, since it is this group that can provide a great number of band returns that would otherwise go unreported.

Skye
Skye

Author: Otta F. Swire

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2006-06-15

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0857909711

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This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and shells which fall from their hair. In the absence of a written tradition, for generations of Skianachs, these tales, handed down orally, contained the very warp and weft of Hebridean history. They take us far beyond Christian times, to the edge of the Iron Age, and interweave with threads from the wider Atlantic tradition of Gaelic heroic myth and legend.