Norman: 2081 books
by Philip Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Author Phillip Norman, whose previous bestseller, John Lennon: The Life, was praised as a “haunting, mammoth, terrific piece of work” (New York Times Book Review) and whose classic Shout! is widely considered to be the definitive biography of the Beatles, now turns his attention to the iconic...
Paul McCartney
La biografía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 20, 2017
La primera biografía autorizada de un mito del pop de todos los tiempos La historia de Paul jamás contada fue confiada al cronista por antonomasia de la vida y obra de estos improbables semidioses; seres por los que nadie daba un duro en sus inicios, ni siquiera el que fuera su mentor, Tony Sheridan....
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander...
Naples '44
A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The basis for the powerful documentary narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis’s memoir of the Italian city after Nazi occupation is a “masterpiece” (Will Self).
“Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny,” Naples ’44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through...
Alexander the Great
Journey to the End of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure."
In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian...
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
National Book Award Finalist: The “amazing” New York Times bestseller about the power of laughter and optimism in fighting serious illness (Chicago Sun-Times).
Norman Cousins’s iconic firsthand account of victory against terminal disease, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient...
by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 - April 10, 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler.
Mutiny on the Bounty is the...
Tough Guys Don't Dance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
“Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—People
Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim...
The Military Megapack
25 Great Tales of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Hours of great reading await, with tales of war and military adventure by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ranging from classics of the Civil War to the World Wars to the future of war -- and many other battlefields -- here more than 640 pages of military fiction! Included...
Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Tears in the Darkness is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II,...
The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge’s inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that...
by Phil Norman
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
An entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history by cultural historian Phil Norman For decades, television occupied a unique position in the national imagination. By today’s standards the ‘box’ was tiny, but it dominated the living room in a way its technically superior descendants...
What Happens Next
A History of American Screenwriting
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Screenwriters have always been viewed as Hollywood’s stepchildren. Silent-film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett forbade his screenwriters from writing anything down, for fear they’d get inflated ideas about themselves as creative artists. The great midcentury director John Ford was known to answer...
Edmund Burke
The First Conservative
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A provocative biography of Edmund Burke, the underappreciated founder of modern conservatism
Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of...