Ben: 3397 books
by Ben Mezrich
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Best-seller do The New York Times, Bilionários por acaso é uma narrativa em alta voltagem sobre dois estudantes desajustados de Harvard que tentavam aumentar suas chances com o sexo oposto e terminaram criando o Facebook.Protagonizada pelo brasileiro Eduardo Saverin, estudante de economia, e pelo...
Coltrane
The Story of a Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane look like now--or are we looking for the wrong signs?
In...
by Ben Sidran
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Ben Sidran: A Life in the Music is much more than a musician's memoir; it's a picaresque story about a personal quest, the search for meaning at the beginning of a new millennium. Sidran delves into the complex relationships between African-Americans and Jews, fathers and sons, history and hope, money...
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This isthe only screenwriting guide by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott); “These guys are proof that with no training and little education, ANYONE can make it as a screenwriter” (Paul Rudd).
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by Ben Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear… When the Black Stig disappeared off the end of an aircraft carrier...
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The best true spy story I have ever read.”**—JOHN LE CARRÉ
The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end...
Forgotten Fatherland
The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of...
Badass
A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues’...
by Ben Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Coming ten years after the group's first appearance, Whatever People Say They Are...That's What They're Not is the first comprehensive biography of Arctic Monkeys, the greatest British group of the internet age.
This is the story of a talented group of hip-hop loving school friends from Sheffield,...
The Bohemians
Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity
At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western...
One Nation
What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
**Dear Reader,
In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.**
Many Americans heard and responded,...
The World as It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of Barack Obama’s most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.
“The closest view of Obama we’re likely to get until he publishes his own memoir.”—George...
by Ben Barres
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly...
Think Big
Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
In Think Big, which emanates from the last chapter of his best-selling Gifted Hands, Dr. Ben Carson prescribes his personal formula for success. And who could better advise than one who transformed his own life from that of being a ghetto kid with problems in school to becoming the most celebrated...