Brian: 7780 books
Pauline Kael
A Life in the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**“A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential movie critics.”—Los Angeles Times
“Engrossing and thoroughly researched.”—Entertainment Weekly
• A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 •
The...
by Brian Boeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.
Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented...
Pierre Berton
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.
From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most...
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
The Forgotten War That Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
“Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian...
Conversations with Power
What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us about Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Fresh out of college, and frustrated with own generation's political apathy, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. To his surprise, they were eager to talk, and he soon found himself discussing everything from energy to terrorism to nuclear disarmament with the...
Match Day
One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Three new doctors—all women—struggle to balance professional ambitions and personal relationships, triumphs and crises, uncertainties and decisions, through one pressure-packed day and the first year of their careers in medicine
Each year, on the third Thursday in March, more than 15,000...
The Hypochondriacs
Nine Tormented Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified...
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa.
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions...
Rescued
One Family's Miraculous Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
When a family outing in a private plane takes a tragic turn, a Memorial Day trip becomes an unforgettable 15 hours of danger, rescue efforts, and miracles. On a clear Saturday morning, professional fire captain and private pilot Brian Brown, his wife, and younger daughter headed out in their Cessna Sky...
Party Like a President
True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief From the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
There’s the office: President of the United States. And then there’s the man in the office—prone to temptation and looking to unwind after a long day running the country. Celebrating the decidedly less distinguished side of the nation’s leaders, humor writer Brian Abrams offers a compelling,...
Rasputin
The Saint Who Sinned
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and...
Algorithms to Live By
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems....
by Brian Routh
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This is the first in a series of eBooks called Introduction to Financial Accounting. The learning objectives of this eBook are to introduce integral accounting vocabulary, concepts and principles to give a foundation for learning accounting. Using conversational style language, the discussion on the...
by Brian Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular prophecies infuriated conservatives and made him a controversial figure.
His...