Carl: 2594 books
by Carl Cheek
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
An indispensable and easy-to-follow companion for the intermediate art student, this concise guide focuses on how to capture the natural representation of the human hand in all its forms and motions.Over 100 clear and expertly rendered drawings help artists discover:• The subtle but crucial differences...
by Carl C. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes...
The Anger Habit
Proven Principles to Calm the Stormy Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Carl Semmelroth's The Anger Habit is a leading anger-management book that is poised to become a major force in the category. This book is centered around the principle that for those who have anger problems, anger can be a learned response. Often the people with the problem don't realize that they...
Shadow Warriors
Inside the Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces.
Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers •
Air Force Special Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs •
and other special-mission units
The first two Commanders books, Every Man a Tiger and...
Tea with Hezbollah
Sitting at the Enemies Table Our Journey Through the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Is it really possible to love one’s enemies?
That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel and glass high rises of Saudi Arabia, then...
by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post...
The Lunatic Express
Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he...
Science Ink
Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. This fascinating book showcases hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and...
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?
Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,...
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan...
Broca's Brain
Reflections on the Romance of Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
“Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly...
Parasite Rex
Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules.
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution,...
by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
FINANCIAL...
by Carl Cattermole
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.
Contains:
Blood – but not as much as you might imagine
Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap
Tears – because...