Gordon Gordon: 4430 books
by Charles Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
It started out as a simple idea: Charles Gordon and his wife, Nancy, drive across Canada. Starting from Ottawa they drove east through Quebec, through New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, where they learned about “soap for the moose.” From St. John’s they headed west on a different...
by Bryony Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK
A new Sunday Times bestseller from Bryony Gordon, Telegraph columnist and author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers. For readers who enjoyed Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive and Ruby Wax's Sane New World, Mad...
East Hill Farm
Seasons with Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A memoir of the upstate New York getaway where the icons of the Beat Generation gathered.
During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was “a haven for...
by Gordon Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Cooking for Friends, award-winning chef, world-renowned restaurateur, bestselling author, and Hell’s Kitchen star Gordon Ramsey offers us more than 100 exceptional recipes from his own family table. The holder of ten Michelin stars and ranked as one of the world’s most powerful celebrities...
Super You
Release Your Inner Superhero
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
From Academy Award-nominee Emily V. Gordon, creator of the blockbuster movie The Big Sick, comes a super-powered guide-to-life with comic-book flair and real-world wisdom for living your best life
Superheroes don't start from glorious beginnings. Their origins are almost always marked by traumatic...
Mud, Blood and Poppycock
Britain and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The true story of how Britain won the First World War.
The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made...
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.
More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...
The Imperfect Revolution
Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns
On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills...
The Cage
The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
"The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and...
by Gordon Lish
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In literary America to utter the name Gordon Lish in a conversation is like adding hot sauce to a meal. You either enjoy the zesty experience one that pushes your limits or you prefer to stay away. Its Lish who first as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname Captain Fiction)...
by William Gordon Stables
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Medical Life in the Navy William Gordon Stables, scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction (1840-1910)
This ebook presents «Medical Life in the Navy», from William Gordon Stables. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...
Rehumanizing Law
A Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other...
by Bernard Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it was...
Keeping Good Time
Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further...