Donald : 3901 books
Tokyo
A View of the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Donald Richie takes the reader on a revealing tour of the different districts of Japan's capital city. Starting from the original centre of Tokyo – the Imperial Palace – Richie branches outwards, taking in other areas such as Yoshiwara, the original red-light district, and Ginza, the world-famous...
Hyecho's Journey
The World of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,...
Reality Check
How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A thought-provoking look at science denialism “for popular science readers who want better to be able to explain and defend science and scientific methods to others” (Library Journal).
The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative...
The Happy Warrior
Political Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Originally published in 1988, this revised and expanded edition of Donald C. MacDonald's acclaimed memoirs provides an inside look at provincial politics in Ontario through the eyes of a party leader. Dubbed "the Happy Warrior" by Tommy Douglas, MacDonald led the Ontario CCF/NDP for seventeen...
Critical Condition
How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.
Dirty examination and operating rooms...
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost...
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Engage Your Readers with Emotion
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving...
Writing 21st Century Fiction
High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Capture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers!
Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction....
by Donald Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Beginning in the second half of the fifteenth century, under the patronage of the Gonzaga family, the northern Italian city of Mantua became a vibrant center for visual art, theatre, and music. The performance at the Gonzaga court of Poliziano's Fabula di Orfeo, around 1480, marked the beginning of...
I Hated to Do It
Stories of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
For over 40 years, Donald C. Farber was Kurt Vonnegut’s attorney, literary agent, and close friend. In this deeply felt memoir, Farber offers a rare portrait of Vonnegut that is both candid and entertaining. A renowned entertainment lawyer with a largely famous clientele and a highly acclaimed author...
by Donald Richie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by...
by Donald Ladew
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
An inspirational story of love and the transforming power of music Stradivarius is a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people. On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of 1951 a wounded American soldier finds a rare violin in the...
Bob Dylan
American Troubadour
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
With Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, his iconic status as an American musical, cultural, and poetic giant has never been more apparent. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book to look at Dylan’s career, from his first album to his late masterpiece Tempest. Donald...
Experiencing Verdi
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular...