In 1984, a freelance comic book editor sat down over a single weekend and invented the mythology behind what would become one of the most valuable entertainment franchises in history. The robots had already been built in Japanese factories. What they lacked were names, souls, and a war worth fighting. The gap between the modesty of those origins and the empire that followed defies easy explanation.Two years later, a corporate boardroom decision to kill the franchise's most iconic c...

OVER 3 MILLION BIBLE CURE BOOKS SOLDFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SEVEN PILLARS OF HEALTH AND I CAN DO THIS DIETShatter the myths and lies about PMS and start believing the truth as you discover how your body works. In this concise, easy-to-read booklet, you'll find a wealth of usable information to help you win the battle over PMS once and for all! Learn biblical secrets on health and the la...

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall...

Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became captain of the first troop of Na Fianna Éireann, the republican boy-scout movement. An unswerving patriot and idealist, he worked tirelessly for the dream of an Irish-speaking, independent republic. Even before his execution, Colbert was held u...

It is possible to manage and even reverse diabetes through natural means, and in Reversing Diabetes, Dr. Colbert shows you how.Most people view diabetes as a dead-end street. Once you receive a diabetes diagnosis, your only option is to manage the symptoms with a restricted diet, close monitoring of blood sugar, and expensive medications. Dr. Colbert shows that diabetes can be treated instead through safe, natural means, like healthy food and vitamins rath...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERStephen and Evie Colbert invite you to pull up a chair as they share their favorite recipes from family and friends and offer a glimpse of food and fun in their South Carolina home.“Hopefully reading this book and cooking these recipes will feel like hanging out with us at home. We basically live in the kitchen anyway.” —Evie and Stephen ColbertAs Evie and Stephen explain it, Does This T...

Lawrence J. Quirk's fascinating portrait and filmography of Hollywood legend, Claudette Colbert.

Claudette Colbert’s mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry’s most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though Colbert (1903–1996) began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra, and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescien...

Transformers did not begin as an American empire of heroes, villains, cartoons, comics, movies, and billion-dollar nostalgia. It began with clever Japanese toys, corporate timing, and the strange magic of machines that could hide a robot inside a truck, jet, cassette player, or pistol.Hasbro saw more than plastic and metal. With Marvel’s help, those imported mechanisms became Optimus Prime, Megatron, Autobots, Decepticons, Cybertron, Energon, and a war that somehow made children ca...

This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the ‘Little Church’ on 15th July 1811. Vicar general of Loménie de Brienne in Toulouse, frequenting the Parisian salons, he was the guide of the economist Adam Smith in Toulouse and in the Southwest, from Bordeaux to Montpellier, from March 1764 to October 1765. In ...

"A delightful tale of family lost and found." — School Library Journal (starred review)Boston Globe–Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert gives The Parent Trap a fresh, funny, and delightfully unexpected update in this story of two girls—one raised by her single father, the other in the foster care system—who meet by chance…only to discover they’re identical twins.Kenya Norwood li...

Now with added content and updated statistics! Bestselling author Dr. Don Colbert explores how negative emotions can have a deadly effect on the body, mind, and spirit, and offers techniques for releasing these toxic catalysts.Destructive emotions can have toxic effects on the body and result in a wide range of serious illnesses – hypertension, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and even some types of cancer. The truth is you may be shaving ye...