Dan: 4385 books
Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days
At Work with the Comic Genius
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
By the end of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had become the most popular actor in films, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. But no reporter had more access than Fred Goodwins. A British actor who joined Chaplin’s stock company in early 1915, Goodwins began writing short...
Love in the Time of Algorithms
What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“If online dating can blunt the emotional pain of separation, if adults can afford to be increasingly demanding about what they want from a relationship, the effect of online dating seems positive. But what if it’s also the case that the prospect of finding an ever more compatible mate with the...
A Million First Dates
Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
** Previously published in hardcover as Love in the Time of Algorithms **
Once considered the realm of the lonely and desperate, sites like eHarmony, Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish have been embraced by pretty much every demographic. Dating has been transformed from a daunting transaction...
Guys Read: How I Won the World Series
A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Children's author and lifelong baseball fan Dan Gutman recounts how he himself was actually the hero in the New York Mets' miraculous defeat of the Boston Red Sox in Game Six of the 1986 World Series—the infamous Bill Buckner game.
This short story from the collection Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a winner.
The American Revolution of 1800
How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—and What This Means Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson provides the definitive window into key concepts that have formed the backdrop of our democracy: the nature of revolution, stewardship of power, liberty, and the ever-present danger of factions and tyranny. Most contemporary historians celebrate Jefferson’s...
by Attila Pivony-Sensei Shidoin 5th Dan Aikido Aikikai
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book is about the unique person, my Master, Masatake Fujita-Sensei, Shihan Hombu Dojo, 8th Dan Aikido Aikikai. Masatake Fujita Shihan is famous for his vigorous performing of the techniques. His teaching style is commonly known as “Fujita-Sensei’s theory of motion (tai sabaki)“....
by Dan Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Dirk Tales, The Book includes previously released Misadventures of Doc & Dirk volumes, available now for the first time in paperback, an additional episode, and more!He's a middle-aged, newly single, gay photographer starting life over. Along comes a freshly out nineteen-year-old, irreverent...
Le Temps des seigneurs
Biographie
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Je cours, paniqué. J’ai encore été piégé par ma mère. À moins d’un miracle, mon père va me tuer à soir. Le même style d’arnaque que d’habitude. J’ai beau courir, l’horizon s’éloigne et l’enfer approche à grandes claques, avec un verre de vin dans une main. Ma mère est...
Bubba Talks
Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Foot
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Among the provocative social phenomena of our time, few have caught the public fancy as profoundly as that quintessentially American species known as Bubba. The conventional notion of Bubba is a Southern redneck who thinks a rented movie and a six-pack are quality entertainment. According to Dan Jenkins,...
A Land Gone Lonesome
An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable...
by E. Dan Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In the summer of 1960, four of us, students at Atlanta (Michigan) High School, embarked on a pulpwood cutting operation as a way to earn spending money for the coming school year. While scrounging around my dad’s sawmill shed for some tools to use in our enterprise, we found an old sign painted...
Al Sieber
Chief of Scouts
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclusion on the 1800s, but the men who really won it were rugged frontiersmen such as Al Sieber, the renowned Chief of Scouts. Crook relied on Sieber to lead...
Aikido. Kokyu Nage Lessons
Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This is the third book of a part of the series of books "Aikido Lessons". The author was a student of Masatake Fujita Sensei, Shihan Hombu Dojo, 8th Dan Aikido Aikikai for over 20 years.
KokyuNage translates as ‘breath throw.’ What one is learning is to co-ordinate one’s body movement...
Summer of Blood
England's First Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history—the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal masters.
In...