Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 24 results for “david clary”
Skip side bar filters

  • Rocket Man

    Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age

    by David A. Clary ...
    More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, through fiery, often explosive, experiments at Roswell, New Mexico, he ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Eagles and Empire

    by David A. Clary ...
    A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency.The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of the least known and most important in both Mexican and United States history—a war that really ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Adopted Son

    Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution

    by David A. Clary ...
    They were unlikely comrades-in-arms. One was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag army of revolutionaries, the other a rich, glory-seeking teenage French aristocrat. But the childless Washington and the orphaned Lafayette forged a bond between them as strong as any between father and son. It was an unbreakable trust that saw them through betrayals, shifting political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Soul Winners

    The Ascent of America's Evangelical Entrepreneurs

    by David Clary ...
    American evangelicals have always been innovators. They reimagined what a church could be, whether it was a humble tent in a rural field or a high-tech urban megachurch. They embraced new forms of media to spread their message to the masses. They thrived in a fiercely competitive religious marketplace.In Soul Winners, journalist David Clary argues that this entrepreneurial spirit has indelibly ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Timber and the Forest Service

    by David A. Clary ...
    Nearly one-quarter of America is covered with forests—almost 800 million acres. There are 151 national forests, comprising close to 200 million acres in thirty-nine states and Puerto Rico. These protected lands are administered by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the Department of Agriculture. David Clary here examines the history of and controversies surrounding the Forest Service’s policies ... Read more

    Free

  • Gangsters to Governors

    The New Bosses of Gambling in America

    by David Clary ...
    Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book AwardsWinner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book Award from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsGenerations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Lost Scientists of World War II

    by David C Clary ...
    This book tells the stories of scientists from Germany and other European countries who vanished during World War II. These erudite scholars contributed to diverse scientific fields and were associated with some of the world's leading universities and research institutions. Despite their proficiency, they all sought help from agencies to relocate to the UK in the 1930s, but were unable to secure ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Bolds

    by Julian Clary, David Roberts ...
    Series series The Bolds
    The Bold family seems fairly normal: they live in a nice house, the parents have good jobs, and they all love to have fun. One slight difference: they're hyenas. That's right—they're covered in fur, have tails tucked into their clothes, and really, really like to laugh.For years, the Bolds have kept their true identities under wraps. But now the neighbors are getting suspicious, and the Bolds are ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Kohn

    From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel Prize

    by David C Clary ...
    Walter Kohn, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and discoverer of the Density Functional Theory (DFT), died in 2016 at the grand age of 93. This book is the first ever biography of Kohn, who led a remarkable life and scientific career, not least the fact that his DFT theory has emerged as the underlying computational method for molecular simulation used throughout the physical and life sciences. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Before and After Roswell

    The Flying Saucer in America, 1947-1999

    by David A. Clary ...
    The flying saucer has been the most vivid and persistent image in American life of the last half century. It has also generated more controversy and rancor than anything else that might be characterized as a fantasy. It is malleable, suiting a wide variety of beliefs and outlooks, touching nearly every public concern. It arrived as a mysterious threat from above, a metaphor for The Bomb. It ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • George Washington's First War

    His Early Military Adventures

    by David A. Clary ...
    Renowned historian David A. Clary studies George Washington’s early military career as a young colonel during the French and Indian War, and how those campaigns influenced his leadership and strategy as a general during the Revolutionary War and as the first president of the newly formed United States of America.The searing, formative military adventures of the inexperienced boy colonel of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Schrodinger In Oxford

    by David Charles Clary ...
    'Clary's account makes for fascinating reading, not least because of its clear style and copious citation of primary sources and original scientific articles. The author provides a compelling narrative of … Schrödinger's departure in 1933 from a highly eminent position at the University of Berlin to a precarious, untenured position at Magdalen College … with political and scientific considerations ... Read more

    $26.99 USD