Christopher: 7927 books

Drei Geschichten aus Bangkok, über mehr oder weniger schöne Missverständnisse, über ganz und gar unterschiedliche Menschen und Lebensweise, über Fremdes und Vertrautes, über Vorurteile und Realitäten. Barmädchen, Ex-Pats, Eliten und viele Ethnien bevölkern ein Bangkok ohne Klischees, aber...

Das neue Buch von Bestsellerautor und Läufer-Guru Christopher McDougall Wie sehen echte Helden aus? Für Bestsellerautor und Läufer-Guru Christopher McDougall war klar: nicht wie die muskelbepackten Rohlinge aus Comics und Hollywoodstreifen. Inspiriert von den Überlebenskünstlern der griechischen...

Em "Como pregar e ensinar com base no Antigo Testamento", o teólogo Christopher J. H. Wright revela por que o Antigo Testamento continua sendo fonte essencial para descobrir as bases de nossa fé. E, por isso, deve ser ensinado e pregado nos dias de hoje. Muitos pregadores deixam de pregar com base...

Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest...

By the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could...

Calvin Harris, also known as Adam Richard is a Scottish-born DJ, singer-songwriter, and producer appears to be living a rather charmed life of late.   In 2006, he was discovered on MySpace and was signed by EMI, Sony BMG, and the Three Six Zero Group.  His first album, "I...

**New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 "Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis."  (Edmund de Waal, author...

The first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself “Weegee,”...

“He’s a smart little mother******,I’ll give him that.” —KEITH RICHARDS on MICK JAGGER  IS he Jumpin’ Jack Flash? A Street Fighting Man? A Man of Wealth and Taste? All this, it turns out, and far more. By any definition, Mick Jagger is a force of nature, a complete original—and...

Adversity.Every living person faces it. It’s part of the human condition. I’m Christopher Wiehl, an actor and filmmaker, and I’ve had plenty of challenges of my own. Some people may not think that’s the case, but I bet they’ve never had brain fluid leaking from their nose.I’d been living...

In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain. From the disruptive childhood which had such a crucial impact on Cobain's personality to the ambitious career musician who, as a friend said, "lunged for success", and the worldwide...

A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world—from Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The Sound of Music—from one of our greatest living actors. Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that is his life,...

"Funny, I don't feel like a legend." -- Barbra Streisand She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti,...

A young man embarks on an adventurous start to his adult life, experiencing the pain, sweat, and fear of Vietnam-era Marine Corps boot camp. No holds barred in the terrifying arrival at the recruit depot. The fright, confusion, and hazing of forming a new platoon. The pain and jam-packed days of training....