Goodman: 581 books
Better Late Than Never
From Barrow Boy to Ballroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame, his experiences on Strictly Come Dancing,...
Sonic Warfare
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic...
Sharpie Art Workshop
Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Bold and sharp, brilliant and vivid, Sharpie markers can be found in art, office, and stationery supply stores, drugstores, mass-market and crafts chains - almost anywhere writing utensils are sold. Sharpies can be used on virtually any surface, from the traditional (paper and canvas) to the unexpected...
Standing Up to the Madness
Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--but also offers advice on what you can do to help.
Where are the millions marching in...
Protocol One
A Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Nathan Goodman
The first casualty of terror is innocence
When Jana Baker first landed the internship of a lifetime, she never imagined walking into a pit of terrorists. But when a secretive federal agent approaches her, she learns the truth and has no...
The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important...
Rome's Last Citizen
The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
"Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life...
Banished
Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony....
by Martin Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism...
Coming to Mind
The Soul and Its Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal...
Static
Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Torture. Kidnapping. Bogus wars. Illegal wiretapping. Propaganda. Spies in the newsrooms. Oil profiteers. Soldiers who won't fight. Mothers of fallen soldiers Who will.
In Static, the bestselling brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David...
by James Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book World
To white Southerners, it was "a heinous...
by Jo Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Her Heart Was Locked Away
Rhyne Abbot is fierce, brave, and used to a life of isolation on her father's spread on the outskirts of Reidsville, Colorado. But when, overcome with sickness, she collapses, she knows she must return to town if she is to have any hope of recovery. Only there is no...
Abraham and His Son
The story of a story
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
I didn't think he'd do it. I really didn't think he would. I thought he'd say, whoa, hold on, wait a minute. We made a deal, remember, the land, the blessing, the nation, the descendants as numerous as the sands on the shore and the stars in the sky.' A mere nineteen lines in the book of Genesis,...