Peter Moore

"Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book." —Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Award–winning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible
"[A] rollicking account . . . The book's compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore's skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period." —Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post
A spirited group biography that explores the origins of

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In a world where vampires dominate and werewolves are despised, a teenaged half-vampire discovers his recessive werewolf genes are developing with the approaching full moon.

This rich compendium examines revolutionary advances in mathematics, physics, science, chemistry, biology and medicine by revealing the lives of the people responsible for them. Just as each generation of new scientific pioneers stands upon the shoulders of the giants who came before them, these biographies build upon each other and tell a collective tale of the development of breakthroughs like the X-ray, radio waves, the Big Bang Theory, and evolution....

Andrew Hetler is a local politician who wants to change the government. He begins his career as a councilman, and then becomes the city mayor, but he quickly discovers that revolutionizing the government is not that easy. Opportunity knocks when he is selected as Vice President of the United States, however his best friend and campaign manager has plans that could turn their lives and the world of government upside down.

A retired Sergeant Major builds a cabin for his wife, missing and unwanted dogs become members of loving families, and a Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer takes a dozen needy children on a fishing trip. Memories of attending family funerals, and the physical and financial pains involved in undergoing jaw surgery. A customer service manager jeopardizes his job and his life all because too many of his personal buttons are pushed. Two young lovers try...

Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed-a long distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950s as he rubs shoulders with the larger-than-life characters-and their dogs and horses-who trekked along the outback stock routes of western Queensland and New South Wales. Meet the world's worst cattle dog and the station hand, Charlie, who blows a laden outside toilet (and its contents) sky high;...

"A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"--

A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --