John Waters: 20 books
Mr. Know-It-All
The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates,...
Crackpot
The Obsessions of
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
An outrageous collection from the uniquely legendary John Waters, updated with new material—including Waters’s 2002 New York Times article, “Finally, Footlights on the Fat Girls.”
Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters’s brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinating...
Carsick
John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from...
Carsick
Meine unglaubliche Reise per Anhalter durch Amerika
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Kultregisseur John Waters ist 66 Jahre alt, als er sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise begibt: Per Anhalter reist er einmal quer durch die USA – von Baltimore an der Ostküste bis nach San Francisco. Bevor er sich an den Straßenrand stellt, phantasiert Waters in zwei wilden Novellas den besten und...
by John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and all who seek happiness and success on their own terms.
So what if you have talent? Then what?**
When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School...
Was It For This?
Why Ireland Lost the Plot
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Ireland today stands at a defining moment. The prosperity of the Celtic Tiger years has given way to the sudden crash, the turbulence of the euro crisis, and the loss of our sovereignty to the faceless technocrats of Europe and the IMF. Our leaders seem impotent and rage, bewilderment and despair...
by John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In 1991, Ireland was in the midst of a devastating recession; thousands of young Irish men and women had emigrated over the previous decade, and divisive social and moral debates on abortion and divorce had rocked Irish society. The great pillars of society - politics and religion - were beginning...
by John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere.
Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown,...
Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? It's time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites...
Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic history, had began to get things right. But...
Beyond Consolation
How we became too "clever" for God and our own good
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
In the late spring of 2008 the acclaimed Irish writer Nuala O' Faolain went on a national Irish radio programme to tell the Irish people that she was dying of cancer. She was frightened of death and of the short time left to her.Â
Here was a spokesperson for a generation which now conjured...
by John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Written by a veteran Web designer, The Real Business of Web Design goes beyond the usual philosophy of simply creating a better customer experience online. Instead, it provides an array of visual design practices and tested business principles for clarifying and simplifying the Web development process...
The Everything Guide to Social Media
All you need to know about participating in today's most popular online communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The ultimate user's guide to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more!
Don't know a tweet from a tweep? Wondering how to get a Second Life? Curious about creating a Facebook profile? Join the social media movement! With The Everything Guide to Social Media, you'll master the lingo, tools, and techniques...
Networking to Win
How to Use the Power of Social Media to Sign New Clients and Build New Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Social media networks are the fastest, most cost-efficient, and effective way for businesses to expand their business and promote their products. Steve Bookbinder, social media business guru, and John K. Waters, veteran hi-tech report, show businesses how to take advantage of the Facebook, LinkedIn,...
by John J. Waters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Otis family was largely responsible for committing Barnstable to the revolutionary cause, a move that irrevocably undermined the placid, homogenous nature of their society. As he discusses the reactions of the Otises and their community to this crisis, Waters illuminates the causes of the Revolution...
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