Adam: 4614 books
Dark Side of the Boom
The Excesses Of The Art Market In The 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book scrutinizes the excesses and extravagances that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its wake. The buying of art as an investment, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and pressure to produce more and more art all form part of this...
by Adam McKibbin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. This best little book is 4,000+ words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous buyers....
Leo Richters Porträt
Sowie ein Porträt des Autors von Adam Soboczynski
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Bei dem bekannten Autor Leo Richter meldet sich eine renommierte Zeitschrift: Man wolle einen längeren Text über ihn in Auftrag geben, ob ihm das recht sei. Geschmeichelt sagt Richter zu: Beginn einer so fürchterlichen wie amüsanten Leidensgeschichte. Ergänzt wird sie durch ein Porträt des Autors...
The Horror of It All
One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead...
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff, “a passionate fan of the horror genre in all its forms,” (The New York Times) recalls a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics, and everything in between.
Horror films have simultaneously captivated and...
by Adam McOmber
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Adam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the...
by Adam Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
The book also has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles:
1. The History of Astronomy
2. The History of the Ancient Physics
3. The History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics
4. Of the EXTERNAL SENSES
5. Of the...
by Adam Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past. With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the historic past - and rebuilds the narrative: a fossil...
The Salinger Contract
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors—from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger—to a sinister collector in Chicago
Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells...
The Seabird's Cry
The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in...
by Adam Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Domestic violence is a growing problem in today's world. Sometimes sex and beauty on the outside are not all they are cracked up to be when it involves a relationship, children, and life. Adam Whitehead shows us a closer glimpse of how men, too, are victims of domestic violence with this true story....
by Adam Zamoyski
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Following on from his epic ‘1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how...
Shocking Representation
Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju,...
Outlaws
The truth about Australian bikers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dickhead magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.'
Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social...