Miller: 6357 books
Tales from the Los Angeles Kings Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Kings Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
In Tales from the Los Angeles Kings Locker Room, Bob Miller shares 40 years of Hollywood hockey with fans, reminding them of the highs and lows of Los Angeles hockey, while entertaining them with behind-the-scenes looks into the history of the 2012 Stanley Cup championship team.
As the “Voice...
But Enough About Me
Why We Read Other People's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to...
by Jonathan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
‘Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?’
‘I’m rather glad I’m not. I’m quite pleased to be what I
think I am, which is a sort of national liability.’
Over the course of seven decades, Jonathan Miller has been...
by Henry Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The “uproariously funny” second book in the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, “may be Miller’s masterpiece” (Choice).
“Plexus is the core volume in The Rosy Crucifixion: the volume which has the most complete description of Henry Miller’s basic values, beliefs, opinions, judgments, both...
For Your Own Good
Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.
With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language,...
by Mary Dockray-Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith’s life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith’s marriages and commissions, Dockray-Miller...
Delhi
Adventures in a Megacity
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
A provocative portrait of one of the world's largest cities, delving behind the tourist facade to illustrate the people and places beyond the realms of the conventional travelogue
Sam Miller set out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as "India's dreamtown—and its purgatory."...
The Age of Evangelicalism
America's Born-Again Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of "a sense in which we are all...
Bad Trip
How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, right? It failed. Not only does the drug war fail to keep Americans from using drugs, but its crackdown tactics also produce bigger problems than it promises to solve. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows that drug prohibition...
by Lee Ryan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
"A SHOCKING INDICTMENT OF OUR SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE POLITICS THAT PERMEATE IT." -Raymond Shaffer, Nevada State Senator
Lee Miller was a popular young professor in Las Vegas who thought he was on the fast-track to tenure. He had created an innovative study abroad program...
The Much Too Promised Land
America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with...
The French Atlantic Triangle
Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...
Deep in the Heart of San Antonio
Land and Life in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Char Miller's collection of essays provides an insightful survey of San Antonio and South Texas. The essays are grouped into six thematic sections: an overview; natural and environmental history; water issues; urban development; politics; and the city's future. Miller describes the First Friday Art Walks...
Confessions of a Very Private Pilot
A Jet Pilot's Humorous Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
From University Aviation Press: Confessions of a Very Private Pilot delivers real-life advice from an owner-pilot on how to evaluate, purchase, train, and operate turbine and light jet aircraft. Each chapter is a story told in a lighthearted manner, complete with real life situations and humorous...