Miller: 6357 books
by Gary Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
A set of poems probably in really crappy taste, Mr. Miller presents a collection of limericks and longer poems about privies he's known and such privies as he imagines historical figures would have used.
For example:
Sherlock Holmes, of the late nineteenth century,
Whose thinking was quick...
The Simplest Words
A storyteller's journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate...
Dangerous Guests
Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners—both British regulars and...
Lincoln and His World
Prairie Politician, 1834-1842
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
• Places Lincoln in historical context
• Firsthand sources create an authentic portrait
In the second volume of this monumental Lincoln biography, the young Illinois politician is challenged by Stephen Douglas--brilliant organizer of the Illinois Democratic Party, perennial officeholder and candidate,...
Nut Country
Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who...
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbols
The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the...
Trickle-Down Censorship
An Outsider's Account of Working Inside China's Censorship Regime
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
A Westerner's inside look into the workings of Chinese society.
For six years, from 2005 to 2011, Australian JFK Miller worked in Shanghai for English-language publications censored by state publishers under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party. In this wry memoir, he offers a view of that...
The Dictionary of Dreams
Every Meaning Interpreted
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**The Dictionary of Dreams provides the necessary tools to interpret almost every dream object and its hidden meaning to better understand what your subconscious is telling you.
Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless...
by Mary Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
“Sleek, sexy, slyly funny.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
A “bracingly strong” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) collection brimming with savage Southern charm, Always Happy Hour propels Mary Miller to new heights. Claustrophobic and lonesome, acerbic and...
Singularity Rising
Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The Singularity is triggered by the tremendous growth of human and computing intelligence that is an almost...
by Brad Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Brad Miller brings over 30 years of smallmouth fly fishing experience that details the most effective smallmouth flies ever used to catch both size and numbers of these fighting fish.Tips are offered on water selection and specific strategies for fishing the flies effective to maximize your...
by Rory Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
The second year of the Chiron Training blog, with a few additional notes. A corrections sergeant, tactical team leader, martial artist and father, Rory Miller has been doing his 'thinking out loud' at chirontraining.blogspot.com since 2005. It's reputed to be worth a read...
Storming the Wall
Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to "challenge"...
by Norman Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Everyone has fish stories. But not every fish story you've heard can teach you the do's and don't's of fishing - for trout! This How To book deals with specific lures and baits, techniques, and even a few stories that will teach you that there's more to fishing than just the...