This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred throughout his long life in public service.His journey from the hardscrabble coalfields to the marbled halls of Congress has inspired generations of people in West Virginia and throughout...

A legendary Senator advises our next President on the commonsense values necessary to lead our nationUnited States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving member of the United States Senate in the history of our great Republic. Senator Byrd has served the people of West Virginia, and the nation, for fifty-four years, and has served alongside eleven Presidents. He was twice elected by his colleagues to the position of Senate Majority Leader and currently is cha...

Murder sparks witchcraft hysteria in this "entertaining" seventeenth-century historical mystery from the New York Times –bestselling author (Stephen King).It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She's been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But M...

Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.

**Brought to you by Penguin.From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers**A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It doe...

La biographie événement qui a inspiré le film Oppenheimer de Christopher NolanLe génie est parfois une malédiction. Robert Oppenheimer fut l'un des plus grands physiciens de son temps. Peu d'hommes pouvaient rivaliser avec son intelligence exceptionnelle et sa fantastique intuition scientifique. Ce talent hors norme l'a mené vers l'invention ultime, capable d'éradiquer la planète : la bombe atomique. Que penser d'un don qui conduit à la destruction univers...

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into a modern context.Adventures Among Birds is almost a manifesto for the life of birds. Hudson's experience of different forms of birdlife is prodigious, and he weaves a thousand small anecd...

Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies explores the experiences, strategies, and triumphs of women who have attained leadership roles within the academy as well as the shortfalls, disappointments, and battle scars many women leaders have experienced in their quest to lead. Clear direction, focused strategies, and enhanced communication are necessary to increase the ever-growing number of women in leadership positions in the academy. Contributions ...

Set around the January 26, 1700 Cascadia megathrust, the novel follows five interwoven POVs from river, inlet, and island communities on the North Pacific Coast. Tayiʼ (Cowichan) wrestles grief and stubborn pride until a night of sky-born "thunder without storm" forces him to lead children uphill; afterward he's entrusted with Thunderbird elements in regalia—weight that means work. Saayaa (Nuu-chah-nulth), trained in disciplined whaling protocol, becomes a steady field cap...

Robert C. Vallieres struggled to find his ônew normalö when he returned home after serving in the military. An accident in Kuwait left him suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) internal injuries, leaving him in constant pain.After clinics, bottles of painkillers, and behavior modification pills, hope seemed to vanish. Then a local weekly newspaper ad caught his eye: a bird-watching trip to see raptors in the mountains of New Hampshire. An Emily Dickinson poem that states, ôHop...

"From Texas to Ohio to Mexico, and through both unspeakable violence, desperate choices, and palpable shame, And Your Byrd Can Sing is a deeply moving, transfixing story full of hard, brave truths that underscore our universal longing for answers, redemption, and belonging."-Whitney Collins, author of Big Bad and Ricky & Other Love Stories"An outstanding debut novel with brilliantly rendered storytelli...

Abandoned at nine by his mother and broken by years of unimaginable abuse, by seventeen, Robert is a runaway, navigating the unforgiving streets of Baltimore with nothing but his resilience and a fierce will to survive. In a world where trust is a gamble and kindness is a distant memory, he fights to outrun the shadows of his past.Rescued by a pastor's wife, he is welcomed into a loving home where his pain is buried. Years later, Robert must decide if he will remain a prisoner of h...