Ben: 3397 books
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Ben Hunt-Davis won Olympic Gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 as part of the Men’s Rowing Eight. He and Executive Coach Harriet Beveridge have teamed up to show you how to use similar strategies to improve your own life. The pair have been road-testing these methods for 10 years, with clients...
by Tal Ben-Shahar
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Learn to be Happier. Week by Week.
In this week-by-week guided journal, Tal Ben-Shahar offers a full year's worth of exercises to inspire happiness every day. Using the groundbreaking principles of positive psychology that he taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University and that...
Titan
A Tale of Cataclysmic Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Hugo Award-winning editor, author, scientist, and journalist, Ben Bova is a modern master of near-future science fiction and a passionate advocate of manned space exploration. For more than a decade, Bova has been chronicling humanity's struggles to colonize our solar system in a series of interconnected...
by Ben Sztajnkrycer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Manny Pacquiao has a record unrivaled in the history of boxing, including titles in eight different weight divisions. Experts consider him, pound-for-pound, the best boxer in the world. He is an unstoppable force, with punches of lightning speed and razor-sharp accuracy....
William Randolph Hearst
The Later Years, 1911-1951
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming the most powerful media mogul the world had ever seen, and in the process earned himself the title of...
The New Media Monopoly
A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers,...
The Vanishing American Adult
Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.
Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and...
A New Voice for Israel
Fighting for the Survival of the Jewish Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Many Americans who care about Israel's future are questioning whether the hard-line, uncritical stances adopted by many traditional pro-Israel advocates really serve the country's best interests over the long-term. Moderate Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of J Street, the new pro-Israel, pro-peace political...
Memoir
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir.
From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating...
by Ben Fogle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Sunday Times Bestseller As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. It is said that for more than half the world's population, the first car they ever saw was a Land...
by Ben Trovato
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Between these covers you have the best of Ben Trovato's popular satirical columns, letters and assorted rants from the Sunday Times since 2008. After thousands of hours of close reading and heated debate, we've compiled the funniest and cleverest material for maximum levels of enjoyment and entertainment....
The Armchair Guide to Property Investing
How to retire on $2,000 a week
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
You may be surprised to learn that according to property experts Ben Kingsley and Bryce Holdaway, you don’t need to accumulate a 10+ property portfolio to create a $2,000 passive income in your retirement. And you’ll only need to spend approximately 10 hours per property a year managing your...
The Aliens Are Coming!
The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth?
For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin...
After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared...