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  | | American-Made(Reprint) The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2009 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-38132-0, ISBN: 0-553-38132-6 "Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Rooseveltâs New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing accomplishments.The WPA is American history that could not be more current, from providing economic stimulus to renewing a broken infrastructure. Introduced in 1935 at the height of the Grea ..." |
 | | John Glenn A Memoir by John Glenn, Nick Taylor Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2000 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-58157-7, ISBN: 0-553-58157-0 "At a time when overwritten biographies arguably provide too much information about their subjects, astronaut-turned-politician-turned-astronaut John Glenn's breezy memoir is welcome. His life story is simply told, not terribly reflective but enormously compelling: an Ohio boy grows up to become the first American to orbit the earth, takes a shot at the presidency but misses, and triumphantly returns to outer space as a senior citizen an ..." |
 | | Laser The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War by Nick Taylor Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 2019 by Jones Street Books ISBN-13: 978-1-62536-165-3, ISBN: 1-62536-165-3 "Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx, New York, apartment, opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: "Some rough calculations on the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." That was November 1957, and the 37-year-old graduate student had coined the name for a world-changing invention. Before he stopped, he had written the first description of a working laser and how it could be used. What h ..." |
 | | Bass Wars A Story of Fishing, Fame and Fortune (Paperback) by Nick Taylor Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2019 by The Authors Guild, Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-62536-163-9, ISBN: 1-62536-163-7 "BASS WARS vividly describes the beginnings of B.A.S.S. as it follows Clunn, his top rivals, and two of the young dreamers, Randy Blaukat and Randy Moseley, during one grueling and fascinating year in the high-stakes, high-pressure sport of ..." |
 | | The Disagreement(Reprint) A Novel by Nick Taylor Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5066-2, ISBN: 1-4165-5066-6 "It is April 17, 1861 -- the day that Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war. Muro's father, believing that the Disagreement will pass, sends his son instead to Charlottesville. Jefferson's forty-year-old University of Virginia has become a haven o ..." |
 | | Laser The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War by Nick Taylor Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2000 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83515-0, ISBN: 0-684-83515-0 "In 1957 Gordon Gould, then an obscure physicist and perennial graduate student, conceived one of the revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century -- the laser. But before he could submit a patent application, a prominent professor of physics whose office was next door to Gould's filed his own laser patent claims. Gould fought to reclaim the rights to his work, beginning a battle that would last nearly thirty years. Many millions of ..." |
 | | Sins of the Father(Reprint) The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob by Nick Taylor Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2012 by Pocket Star ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-6849-0, ISBN: 1-4516-6849-X "The true story of how Sal Polisi—a member of a New York crime family and author of The Sinatra Club—turned his back on the mob and spoke out against organized crime, is now available in paperback.As a wiseguy for some of New York’s biggest crime families, “Crazy Sal” Polisi couldn’t imagine another way of life. Until the day he was busted and faced life behind bars. Then he decided it was time to talk—not so much for himself, but for th ..." |
 | | The Disagreement(1st Edition) A Novel by Nick Taylor Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5065-5, ISBN: 1-4165-5065-8 "It is April 17, 1861 - the day that Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war. Muro's father sends him instead to Charlottesville, where Jefferson's forty-year-old University of Virginia has become a haven of rogues and dilettantes. Soon, the war effo ..." |
 | | American-Made The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor Hardcover, 640 Pages, Published 2008 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-80235-1, ISBN: 0-553-80235-6 "If you’ve traveled the nation’s highways, flown into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio’s River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)—one of the enduring cornerstones of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. ..." |
 | | John Glenn(1st Edition) A Memoir by John -- Signed Glenn, Nick Taylor Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 1999 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-11074-6, ISBN: 0-553-11074-8 "He was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage riveted a nation. But these two historic events only bracket a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century. In this engrossing book, John Glenn tells the story of his unique life--one lived at the center of a momentous time in history by a man who helped shape that history. He is the kind of hero wh ..." |
 | | Healing Lessons(1st Edition) by Nick Taylor, Sidney J. Winawer Md Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-94509-7, ISBN: 0-316-94509-9 "A world-renowned cancer specialist puts his love for his wife before all that he has learned in medical school and journeys with her into the world of alternative medicine when she is given only a few months to live, in this compassionate and elegantly written memoir." |
 | | Sins of the Father(Reprint) The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob by Nick Taylor Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2015 by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-2772-4, ISBN: 1-5011-2772-1 "The true story of how Sal Polisi—a member of a New York crime family and author of The Sinatra Club—turned his back on the mob and spoke out against organized crime, is now available in paperback.As a wiseguy for some of New York’s biggest crime families, “Crazy Sal” Polisi couldn’t imagine another way of life. Until the day he was busted and faced life behind bars. Then he decided it was time to talk—not so much for himself, but for th ..." |
 | | Sins of the Father(Reprint) The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob by Nick Taylor Paperback, Published 1990 by St Martins Press Inc (M/M) ISBN-13: 978-0-312-92370-9, ISBN: 0-312-92370-8 |
 | | Sins of the Father(1st Edition) The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob by Nick Taylor Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 1989 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-671-66062-8, ISBN: 0-671-66062-4 ""Crazy Sal" Polisi recounts his dealings with drugs, gambling, and stolen goods while working for the Mafia, his decision to leave the Mob and devote himself to his sons, and life under the Federal Witness Protection Program" |
 | | Modern Fighters to Color, Cut Out and Fly by Nick Taylor Paperback, Published 1987 by Bellerophon Books ISBN-13: 978-0-88388-095-1, ISBN: 0-88388-095-4 "Book by Taylor, Nick" |
 | | Father Junipero's Confessor by Nick Taylor Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Heyday ISBN-13: 978-1-59714-261-8, ISBN: 1-59714-261-1 "A novel of Mission-era piety and fanaticismLed by the zealous Fray Junipero Serra to the fringes of the Spanish Empire in the mid-1700s, Franciscan missionaries Francisco Palou and Juan Crespi are as fervid as their master about the opportunity posed by Alta California: to gloriously swell the kingdom of God through conversion consensual or forced of the native people. As Crespi and our sensitive but bitterly envious narrator, Palou, vi ..." |
 | | Bailey, Harris & Jones(6th Edition) Civil Liberties Cases, Materials, and Commentary by Stephen Bailey, Nick Taylor, David John Harris, Aileen Mccolgan Paperback, 1,006 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921855-4, ISBN: 0-19-921855-2 "Bailey, Harris and Jones is an indispensable text that facilitates a thorough understanding of this complex subject area. It supplies the reader with an unrivalled collection of materials and commentary on all major aspects of the law relating to civil liberties in England and Wales, and is firmly established as a superb resource for students on civil liberties and constitutional law courses. This sixth edition has been substantiall ..." |
 | | Laser The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War by Nick Taylor Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 2007 by Backinprint.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-595-46528-6, ISBN: 0-595-46528-5 "The laser is one of the remarkable inventions of all time, with virtually endless uses in communications, technology, and medicine. Even more remarkable is how it was inventedby an obscure Columbia University graduate student who had already spent years unsuccessfully working on his Ph.D. This is the story of Gordon Gould, who invented the laser and gave it its name, and then had to fight a prominent, Noble Prize-winning physicist to c ..." |
 | | Laser(Reprint) The Inventor, the Noble Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War by Nick Taylor Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2003 by Citadel ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-2471-9, ISBN: 0-8065-2471-5 "Two other Bell Labs scientists, Arthur G. Fox and Lynden U. Kibler, had filed an application for a patent on the use of Brewster's angle windows to reduce reflection losses in a laser, and the Patent Office had initiated an interference in this case in 1963. The third of the Patent Office-initiated interferences set Gould against Robert W. Hellwarth, a scientist at Hughes Research, over the Q-switch, the scheme that Gould had ident ..." |
 | | A Necessary End by Nick Taylor Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2001 by Iuniverse ISBN-13: 978-0-595-16706-7, ISBN: 0-595-16706-3 "A touching and beautifully written story of Nick Taylorâs journey with his parents to the end of their lives. Millions of children are taking similar journeys, which is why the Washington Post called A Necessary End âone of the key stories of our time.â" |
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