Holmes: 1214 books
The Ultimate Sales Machine
Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Chet Holmes has been called "one of the top 20 change experts in the country." He helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus! Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business,...
by Ernest Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The Ebell lectures were named for the Hall in which they were delivered in 1934. They have had a couple of incarnations since they were first published. In some cases some people felt the need to edit them and use "modern" language because of Holmes use of "mankind". Whatever the...
Quirk
Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our parents,...
Falling Upwards
How We Took to the Air
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013**
In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and...
Party of One
A Memoir in 21 Songs
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
From former MTV VJ Dave Holmes, the hilarious memoir of a perpetual outsider fumbling towards self-acceptance, with the music of the '80s, '90s, and today as his soundtrack
Dave Holmes has spent his life on the periphery, nose pressed hopefully against the glass, wanting just one thing: to get...
Kelly Holmes
Black, White & Gold - My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Kelly Holmes made history when she brought home double gold in the 2004 Olympics, becoming a national hero. She won Sports Personality of the Year, was given a Damehood, fully backed London's successful 2012 Olympic bid and became a superstar on the red carpet as well as a much acclaimed and consulted...
I Love Your Laugh
Finding the Light in My Screwball Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
*The three years I spent in prison taught me to hate. Fork fights and throat punches were my pastimes. But that's how it goes when you've raised yourself on spite and envy.
OK, that wasn't me. Not all comedians come from a dark place. . . .*
In this hilarious memoir, Jessica Holmes,...
by Steve Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
John Holmes was a schoolboy when World War II broke out in 1939, but even he jknew his destiny lay in the skies. 'Boys from these parts don't join the RAF', he was told on more than one occasion. But they were wrong.After many months undergoing selection and training he eventually made it into the...
This Long Pursuit
Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
From the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards, here is a luminous meditation on the art of biography that fuses the author’s own experiences with a history of the genre and explores the fascinating and surprising relationship between fact and fiction.
In a book...
by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes’s biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ forever. Holmes’s Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly...
Real Street Kidz
Chasing Action (multicultural book series for preteens 7-to-12-years old)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
•A Multicultural Children’s Books by Quentin Holmes •Easy-to-read, empowering and entertaining stories for preteens (7-to-12 years old) •Available in softcover, & eBookThe Real Street Kidz are Chasing Action! Join Q, Lucky, Los, and Chase -- a diverse group of preteens who must pull...
The Well-Dressed Ape
A Natural History of Myself
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
**DID YOU KNOW THAT **
• we have more hair follicles than a chimpanzee
• a male boxer in top condition can punch with the force of a thirteen-pound mallet swung at twenty miles an hour
• the best human endurance runners can outlast a horse
• one odor above all is sexually stimulating to the...
by Ernest Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
The inspiration of Ernest Holmes has reached hundreds of thousands of readers through his classic works, many of which are just now becoming available in paperback. Originally published in the first half of the twentieth century, these meditative, concise volumes have never previously appeared in...
by Ernest Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Do you have any control over your life? In It's Up to You, Ernest Holmes shows how to move from a life of "no" to a life of "yes." Readers will be able to choose their future, because what we experience tomorrow depends on what we think and do today. "It's up to you,"...