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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Humorous poetry from the television program hosted by a beloved Minnesota news anchor.

In the 1950s, Dave Moore, a young actor born and raised in Minneapolis, accepted a newscaster position with the local CBS affiliate, WCCO-TV-a job Walter Cronkite turned down. For the next three decades, until his death in 1998, he delivered the evening news with integrity, conviction, humor, and flair, making him a fixture in Minnesota

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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....

An eminent group of Episcopal scholars and bishops addresses the core issues raised in Bishop Spong's books and teachings on the Virgin birth, resurrection, sexuality, scripture, sin, Jesus, culture, and God. These essays are incisive responses to an articulate and charismatic public figure whose provocative writings have stirred traditional and non-traditional thinkers alike. While acknowledging that Spong's writing strikes a chord with lay people...

What would you do if someone stole your best selling manuscript? That's exactly what happened to writer Kelly Brentwood. He spent five years creating the next great American novel, a masterpiece worthy of the big screen just to find out that someone else was passing it off as their own, not to mention reaping the rewards of a big publishing contract and a movie deal. In a personal tug of war, Kelly is forced with a decision to either let the legal...

An examination of the dual Scottish—Yamasee colonization of Port Royal Those interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the small outpost of Stuarts Town. Meanwhile, the Yamasee...

"A history of the legendary ship Endeavour"--

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

"Brad Baron and his friends discover dangerous secrets about the superheroes running their society"--