Neil: 3512 books
The Art of Backscratching in Chicago
Driving with Ed McElroy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
“Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to Ed McElroy: an old-school, behind-the-scenes backscratcher who has driven the rich, powerful, and...
by Neil McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
In The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, Neil McKenna provides stunning new insight into the tumultuous sexual and psychological worlds of this brilliant and tormented figure. McKenna charts Wilde's astonishing odyssey through London's sexual underworld, and provides explosive new evidence of the political...
The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies
Featuring Dave Anthony, Lord Carrett, Dean Haglund, Allan Havey, Laura House, Jackie Kashian, Suzy Nakamura, Greg ... Schmidt, Neil T. Weakley, and Matt Weinhold
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A movie guide for film and comedy fans, by filmmakers and comedians, for the movie lover with a good sense of humor.
Tired of the usual boring, dry movie discussion? The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies is something new. Is it serious movie discussion? Is it funny? Do the writers know what...
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham
"Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in...
by Neil Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Serving Life - 25-One Guard's Story will provide a peek behind the curtain into an Oz-Like environment of Canada's troubled prison system. Experience the not so normal days of a Canadian Correctional Officer in British Columbia.
Neil MacLean retired in 2014 as a Correctional Manager and...
Solo Voices: Monologues 1987-2004
Monologues 1987-2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2005
Collected for the first time in print, over a decade of texts from one of British theatre’s fiercest and most individual voices, documenting the extraordinary site-specific solo performances which have run parallel to Bartlett’s acclaimed work as a mainstream director.
Neil Bartlett was...
Shakespeare's Restless World
Portrait of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus
We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
Trapped Under the Sea
One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations,...
by Neil Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
It is sadly the case that bullying and harassment are far more prevalent in the modern workplace than people generally realise. These problems can be far more than a nuisance or unfortunate unpleasantness; they can ruin people’s lives. They can undermine confidence and self-esteem; lower morale;...
by Neil Slaven
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. This successful biography has now been revised and reprinted and is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career. Neil Slaven has brilliantly brought together the...
The Game
Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil...
by Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum powerhouse trio Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, and Nick Jonas are ready to tell their story in BLOOD, a memoir that details the incredible true story of the Jonas Brothers, from the band’s creation, phenomenal rise to superstardom, break up at the height of their fame,...
by Neil Pasricha
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, You Are Awesome, and the award-winning, multimillion-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things comes even more of the little things that make us smile every day!
Neil Pasricha is back with a collection of hundreds more awesome things from the website,...
by Neil Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
They are Britain's best-loved comedians. This unauthorised biography gives the low-down on the men behind the laughter.When Little Britain appeared on our screens, a series of characters was born that would make a nation laugh like no other British comedy in recent years. With its hilarious mocking...