The Book Shop

Nonfiction / History
We found 3113 records.

Results sorted by: 

71.
Last Guard Out: A Riveting Account by the Last Guard to Leave Alcatraz
by Jim Albright
Click here for details on "Last Guard Out: A Riveting Account by the Last Guard to Leave Alcatraz"
Paperback (6x9) - £12.90
ISBN: 9781434350770
The Last Guard Out is the fascinating true story of one man's life as a guard behind the merciless concrete walls of Alcatraz.I was newly assigned to the infamous island penitentiary of Alcatraz. Reporting to Alcatraz required...More
72.
Parenting My Father: A Journey with Dementia
by Claire Virginia McCulloch
Click here for details on "Parenting My Father: A Journey with Dementia"
Paperback (6x9) - £7.30
ISBN: 9781434363862
Parenting My Father: A Journey with Dementia lovingly depicts the profound effect of a father’s severe memory loss on the daughter who helped care for him. Told with sensitivity and humor, the author shares intimate details...More
73.
The Anthracite Coal Region: The Archaeology of its Haunting Presence
by John G. Sabol Jr.
Click here for details on "The Anthracite Coal Region: The Archaeology of its Haunting Presence"
Paperback (6x9) - £7.90
ISBN: 9781434368966
This book is an archaeological excavation of anomalous phenomena that still lingers to haunt various locations in the anthracite coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The unearthing of this haunting presence is both a...More
74.
Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany
by James R. Holbrook
Click here for details on "Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany"
Paperback (5x8) - £8.30
ISBN: 9781434357434
Recently declassified information makes it possible for the first time to tell part of the story behind the Cold War intelligence operations of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) to the Commander of the Soviet Army...More
75.
Journeys: The Gamaches in the New World
by Marquis de Gamache
Click here for details on "Journeys: The Gamaches in the New World"
Paperback (6x9) - £12.90
ISBN: 9781434348197
This book is a genealogical and historical account of the Gamache family from 1565 in France to the present day in the United States. Ten generations are listed. Among the Gamache family accomplishments are the founding of...More
76.
Boydie
by R.T. Cain
Click here for details on "Boydie"
Paperback (6x9) - £8.30
ISBN: 9781434372536
David Boyd is a Policemanat a time now accepted as being the 'Heydays of British Policing'. TheseChronicles of his service with the Lancashire Constabularyduring the 1960's into the 1970's are intertwined with intimate details...More
77.
A First Hand Account of Discrimination in Civil Service (1997-2007): Glass Ceilings for the disabled in Federal Civil Service
by Dan McGrew
Click here for details on "A First Hand Account of Discrimination in Civil Service (1997-2007): Glass Ceilings for the disabled in Federal Civil Service"
Paperback (6x9) - £7.60
ISBN: 9781434361837
My book is a diary about the steel-reinforced concrete roadblocks put in my path, and the paths of others, to prevent me (us) from making a career of Air Force Civil Service because I (we) became disabled on the job. It also...More
78.
Toishan: Book One: In Words and Dreams and Songs
by John E. Cashwell
Click here for details on "Toishan: Book One: In Words and Dreams and Songs"
Paperback (6x9) - £7.30
ISBN: 9781434351371
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS HERE: [Book I: “In Words and Dreams and Song”] Spanning more than 1,300 years and over forty-seven generations, Toishan bookmarks at key points in time the contributions of the Chinese men and...More
79.
My Journey Through Life
by Wilma Stevenson Mills
Click here for details on "My Journey Through Life"
Paperback (6x9) - £8.10
ISBN: 9781434364388
More
80.
Halfway Home
by Felicia Pringle Hopkins, CHP (Major) Retired
Click here for details on "Halfway Home"
Paperback (5x8) - £7.30
ISBN: 9781434371720
In 2003, reservist Chaplain (Major) Hopkins was pulled away from her husband and children in El Paso, Texas, to serve a year long unaccompanied tour overseas. Forty-eight hours later, Chaplain Hopkins was in a U. S. Army...More