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  • The Unquiet Englishman

    A Life of Graham Greene

    **A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar AwardA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the YearA vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair.**One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry ... Read more

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  • Building Value

    The 5 Keys for Achieving Success

    Most business owners believe they are building a business. Most are building a very demanding job.The difference is not strategy. It is not market timing or competitive advantage. It is a set of five behaviors - practiced consistently, under pressure, over time - that separate owners who build something genuinely transferable from those who build an organization that cannot function without them ... Read more

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  • History of the English People: Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540, Puritan England, 1603-1660, the Revolution, 1660-1760; Modern England, 1760-1815 (Complete)

    EARLY ENGLAND 449-1071 AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK I 449-1071 For the conquest of Britain by the English our authorities are scant and imperfect. The only extant British account is the "Epistola" of Gildas, a work written probably about A.D. 560. The style of Gildas is diffuse and inflated, but his book is of great value in the light it throws on the state of the island at that time, and above all as the ... Read more

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  • Finding the Eye of the Storm

    We live in noise. Constant demands, relentless change, the pressure to perform and produce and keep moving - and somewhere inside all of it, the quiet question of whether the life you are building is actually the one you want to be living.Finding the Eye of the Storm is a book about discovering that stillness is not the absence of chaos. It is something you carry into the chaos.Drawing from a near ... Read more

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  • Mary I: England's Troubled Queen

    by Richard Green ...
    The reign of Mary I of England, often overshadowed by the colossal figures of her father, Henry VIII, and her successor, Elizabeth I, nonetheless represents a pivotal and deeply instructive period in English history. It was an era of seismic religious shifts, perilous political maneuvering, and profound personal struggle for the monarch herself. This book endeavors to peel back the layers of myth ... Read more

    $6.70 USD

  • Flights from Phu Loi

    An Account of Helicopter Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War

    “Spin, crash, and burn.” These words describe a helicopter pilot’s worst case scenario, and which Lieutenant Richard Greene kept trying to avoid during his service as a reconnaissance pilot in the Vietnam War. As an “Outcast” in his Bell observation helicopter, Greene witnessed many close calls, snafus, and over-reach during multiple military operations. But throughout, Greene found humor, beauty, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Collected Poems Richard Greene

    Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Caterpillar and the Butterfly

    Autobiographical Poems

    A collection of autobiographical poems by Richard Greene. Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • A Curmudgeon's Guide to Postmodern Times

    Aphorisms

    Now revised and updated with new aphorisms! Reader beware: This book contains material that disparages cherished beliefs, opinions and institutions including political and religious ones. While some readers may find that material refreshingly irreverent, others may find it offensive. The aphorism quoted on the cover, Patriotism, piety and chastity are all much overrated virtues, offers a ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Painting with Words

    Landscapes in Verse

    A collection of poems describing the exterior world, such as: Orinocos of the Imagination I’ve never been to the Orinoco and have seen few photos of it, but I feel I know its sinuous lengths, winding between thick jungle walls, flashing silver in the sun, delicate waterfalls threading from cloud-shrouded cliffs, dense foliage adorned with birds of kindergarten colors and jaguars that merge into ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Broken Guitar

    Poems of War

    The Broken Guitar by Richard Greene is a collection of poems about war: Memorial Reading the name of a young man who died in war saddens us. Yet more the names of thousands engraved in granite, or marble, their parents’ hopes and dreams interred in stone. All that remains are a few keepsakes, and memories of newborns, toddlers, vulnerable boys, youths becoming men, those now sad memories, and ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Edith Sitwell

    Avant garde poet, English genius

    For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and anecdotes were legendary and her works like English Eccentrics confirmed her comic genius, while ... Read more

    $3.99 USD