Andrew: 10354 books
That's Me in the Corner
Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Fast approaching his fortieth birthday, Andrew is cornered at a family gathering by the nine-year-old son of his brother-in-law's sister. Having seen him as a talking head on TV, the boy asks, 'What are you?' It is a question so frank and simple that Andrew doesn't have an immediate answer to hand.
So,...
by Andrew Kline
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Let me ask you a simple question. Do you treat the people you love as well as you do complete strangers? Come on now, that isn't a trick question. If you have to spend too long thinking about it before you answer, you need to read on.
There is a ton of information available to teach you how...
Autopilot
The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
"A tour de force of an academic field that doesn't really exist just yet the science of being idle. Andrew Smart synthesizes a whole range of cutting-edge ideas in neuroscience, dynamic systems theory, psychology, literature, pop culture, and philosophy, and gives us a hugely entertaining read about...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both...
by Andrew E. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For 66 years, Andrew Stevens (formerly Steinberger Endre) avoided telling the story about his horrifying memories from World War II, even though they never stopped troubling him. He continued to resist writing this book, even after his partisan activity as a member of the Jewish underground fighting...
Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World
Choosing Between Progress and Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words: “The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.” In this groundbreaking essay,...
by Andrew Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Andrew Griffiths has been through tough times and survived them. In Bulletproof Your Business Now he tells you how he survived the hard times by adopting some fundamental philosophies that changed his life and the way he runs his businesses.
The advice offered in this book is simple and real,...
Earth Dances
Music in Search of the Primitive
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring … Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture. With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews,...
The Sound of Pictures
Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds...
by Andrew Keeling
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
How do composers compose? And why?Initiated by Robert Fripp, the Diary was intended from the outset to be the record of a living composer: one who stood with one foot inside classical music and the other in rock/folk music. Besides demonstrating the minutiae of the creative process, it also...
Backseat Bedroom
a concise guide to living in a car
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
'Backseat Bedroom' is a non-fiction book by, unique Scottish musician, Nick Andrew. The thing that makes Nick unique is that he lives in a car. A blue one.
It all started as a bizarre 2 week cost cutting experiment, but has turned into an 9 year (and counting) lifestyle change for our hero.
And...
The Last Warrior
Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than...
America's War for the Greater Middle East
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades from retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers...
by Andrew P. Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
One continent, 6000 kilometres, ten countries, nine weeks, four pannier bags, one man, no detailed plan... and a bike called Reggie. Secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes moves out of the classroom, climbs onto his bicycle and sets off along the route of the EuroVelo 8, from the southern tip of Greece...