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Margaret Thatcher
A Portrait of the Iron Lady
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is John Blundell's personal portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the woman who was the pivotal point of the rescue of a country, a woman who woke up her nation and made it once again a world leader. It is not only the story of her life but also an examination of the ideas, interests, and circumstances...
Predisposed
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political convictions. Our biology predisposes us to see and understand the world in different ways, not always reason and the careful consideration of facts. These...
by John McEnroe
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
John McEnroe's long-awaited follow-up to his #1 bestseller
He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? Fifteen years after...
John Varvatos
Rock in Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In John Varvatos, the legendary designer reveals his perspective on how rock & roll music and style have influenced his own designs and fashion worldwide. Varvatos’s personally curated collection of more than 250 images are some of the most provocative ever shot by top rock photographers from...
Let Me Tell You About Alex
Crazy Days and Nights on the Road with 'The Hurricane'
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
There is a tribute book to be written about the nicest man in snooker-but this isn't it. Whatever else he was, Alexander Gordon Higgins wasn't nice. Unpredictable, wild, demonic and obsessive for certain. The People's Champion. An unstoppable force who single-handedly transformed snooker from a niche...
by John Wesley Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Gambler, gunslinger, folk hero to some, cold-blooded murderer to others, John Wesley Hardin or Wes Hardin as he was known, was one of America’s first celebrity outlaws. During the late 1860s and early 1870s the teenage Texan waged a one-man war of revenge for the South, relishing opportunities to...
Bad Dogs Have More Fun
Selected Writings on Animals, Family and Life by John Grogan for The Philadelphia Inquirer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Bad Dogs Have More Fun is an unforgettable collection of more than seventy-five newspaper articles from The Philadelphia Inquirer written by former columnist John Grogan. Combining humor, wit, poignancy, and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in....
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
An Alternative History of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The extraordinary story of the twentieth century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art, and culture.
Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth...
by John DiLeo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Anna Magnani is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Anna Magnanis roles in the films The Rose Tattoo (1955) and The Fugitive Kind (1960), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides additional...
The Camp Follower
We All Thought That the Cook Was the Spy
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
7th Infantry 6th Army SHAPE 18th Airborne MAAG Division Corps Viet Nam Combat Units Imagine growing up into your late teenage years thrown into a strange environment surrounded by the aftermath of the most horrendous war in history. Approximately seventy one million people died on all sides and the...
by John DiLeo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Marlon Brando is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Marlon Brando's roles in the films A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and The Fugitive Kind (1960), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides...
If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?
Smart Quotes for Dumb Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote...
My Father the Spy
An Investigative Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief of station" on some of the hottest assignments of the Cold War, from the back alleys of occupied Vienna to the jungles of the Philippines—and...
John Deere New Generation and Generation II Tractors
History, Models, Variations & Specifications 1960s-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In the 1960s and 1970s, John Deere’s tractors evolved dramatically from small machines into large, powerful tractors with modern advances and muscular engines; it was a period of the greatest changes since the 1920s. Deere christened these tractors the New Generation. This book in the Tractor Legacy...