Kevin: 5344 books
Blood in the Hills
A History of Violence in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued...
by Gregg Olsen, Kevin M. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan travel down a bizarre trail of murder into notorious Pennsylvania. A seemingly normal husband father of two decides to kill young girls after storming an Amish schoolhouse, and sex many have been the prime...
by Kevin Passmore
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? This book argues that it is both: fascism unleashes violence against the left and ethnic minorities, but also condemns the bourgeoisie for its 'softness'. Kevin Passmore opens his book with a series of 'scenes from fascist life' - a secret meeting...
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports
NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence.
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams...
Electric October
Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever
The 1947 World Series was “the most exciting ever” in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade’s worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and underdog...
Game Day
Meet the People Who Make It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Not everyone can be an athlete, but that doesn’t stop thousands of others from participating in world-class sporting events. When Patrick Reynolds realized that he couldn’t be a race car driver, he turned his love of cars into a successful career as a NASCAR mechanic. A passion for grass and baseball...
Home Run
Learn God's Game Plan for Life and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
You are invited to live life to the fullest.
For five hard years Christian leader Kevin Myers struggled personally and professionally. But it was during that time that God pointed out where he was going wrong and showed him the biblical pattern for living. It proceeded to transform his life,...
by Kevin Hardcastle
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Trillium Book Award
Finalist for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Nominated for the 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary Award
One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015
One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year, 2015
The eleven remarkable stories...
by Kevin Brownlow
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Here, from one of today’s leading authorities on film history, is the story, told brilliantly and for the first time, of the pioneering movie makers who as early as 1905 traveled beyond the studio stages to make feature films on location—and in so doing recorded the real history and real life...
by Maria Bustillos, Jillian Steinhauer, Alexis Madrigal
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
“Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we’re talking about when we’re talking about cat videos.” —New York magazine
Are cat videos art? This essay collection, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, addresses not just our fascination...
The Black Male Handbook
A Blueprint for Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Author and activist Kevin Powell and contributors Lasana Omar Hotep, Jeff Johnson, Byron Hurt, Dr. William Jelani Cobb, Ryan Mack, Kendrick B. Nathaniel, and Dr. Andre L. Brown tap into the social and political climate rising in the African American community with this collection of essays for Black...
Hollywood Divided
The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group's leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood -- John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Huston, Frank Capra, William Wyler, and Rouben Mamoulian...
by Kevin Macdonald, Mark Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive, inspirational' (Independent) compendium...
by Kevin Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Ed Norris was the NYPD’s boy wonder cop. He spearheaded a cold case squad that solved 27 murders in its first six weeks, catapulting him to NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations at the age of 36. In 1990, during a murder investigation, he discovered the plans for what turned out to be the 1993...