Author: Ben Thompson
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: gunfighters, pirates, military, commanders, live, samurai, vikings, relentless, onslaught, toughest, warlords, badass
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061749443
ISBN-13: 9780061749445

An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle Throughout history—from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era—there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes criminally insane, they had one thing in common: They were all . . . Badass! Chandragupta Maurya An Ind

Author: Don Thompson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: contemporary, art, economics, curious, stuffed, shark, million
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0230610226
ISBN-13: 9780230610224

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million?             Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an att

Author: D. P. Thompson
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: print, large, rangers
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0554238284
ISBN-13: 9780554238289

Towards night on the twelfth of March 1775 a richly-equipped double sleigh filled with a goodly company of well-dressed persons of the different sexes was seen descending from the eastern side of the Green Mountains along what may now be considered the principal thoroughfare leading from the upper navigable portions of the Hudson to those of the Connecticut River.

Author: J.L. Thompson
Publisher: Gorilla Publishing
Keywords: finance, students, parents, personal, understanding, guide, college
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2007-09-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0979635497
ISBN-13: 9780979635496

America’s youth and their parents are drowning in debt due to financial illiteracy. My College Finance was written to help educate students and their parents on the importance of personal finance. American debt levels are at an all time high and the main problem is the average person does not understand personal finance. This book was written from a real world perspective addressing topics such as the importance of credit, the impact of credit scores on employment, how to avoid credit card debit, how to balance a check book and much more. It’s an easy read and the information is ea

Author: T. E. Thompson
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: notes, identification, species, keys, gastropoda, benthic, opisthobranchs, mollusca, molluscs
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1989-03
List price: $65.71
ISBN-10: 9004084398
ISBN-13: 9789004084391

Author: Ida Thompson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Keywords: national, field, society, audubon, guides, fossils, guide, north, american
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0394524128
ISBN-13: 9780394524122

This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, bones, as well as fossil-bearing rocks and outcrop formations. The descriptive text includes information on size, geological period, geographical distribution, and ecology of the animal or plant before it was fossilized. In addition, the book provides lists of Geological Survey offices and major fossil collections, a geological time chart, and a guide to collecting and preserving fossils.

Author: Jim Thompson
Publisher: Productive Publications
Keywords: office, continously, improve, ideas, common, production, lean, sense
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1552700259
ISBN-13: 9781552700259