O Rourke: 154 books
by Pete Geissler, Bill O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Ethics - described briefly as the norms by which acceptable and unacceptable behaviors are measured--has been the concern, and perhaps the great dilemma, of sentient humans since Socrates subjected it to philosophical inquiry almost 2500 years ago. Socrates believed, without universal acceptance,...
by Monica J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Eighteen horror stories (and a few poems) ranging from quietly subtle to stomach-churning disgusting, this collection features fiction that will entertain or repulse almost anyone. Featuring an Introduction by gore master Wrath James White!Read about a gynecological visit gone very wrong … a woman’s...
by Monica J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Eighteen horror stories (and a few poems) ranging from quietly subtle to stomach-churning disgusting, this collection features fiction that will entertain or repulse almost anyone. Featuring an Introduction by gore master Wrath James White! Read about a gynecological visit gone very wrong … a...
Don't Quit Your Day Job
An Actor's Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
What is it that makes people want to be actors? Tom O'Rourke's irreverent, no holds barred, absolutely true memoir of his epic struggles on the road to becoming a working actor will leave you scratching your head wondering how anyone could be so headstrong? Passionate? Tenacious? Resourceful? But if...
Parliament of Whores
A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A #1 New York Times bestseller: “An everyman’s guide to Washington” by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times).
P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political...
by P. J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato—also known as “the funniest writer in America” (The Wall Street Journal).
Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times–bestselling...
Holidays in Hell
In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This?"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “hair-raisingly hilarious” journey through danger zones from Belfast to Gaza, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Vanity Fair).
“Tired of making bad jokes” and believing that “the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure,” journalist and...
by James O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Confident Presenting (9780132161602) by James O’Rourke. Available in print and digital formats. Expert techniques for making sure people pay attention to your presentation, from one of the world’s leading business communications experts. If a...
The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer
Richard Biegenwald
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The true story of the murders that terrorized New Jersey beach towns for nearly a decade.
Beachgoers usually watch out for dangers like riptides or sharks—but from 1974 to 1983, a different fear gripped the New Jersey shore: young women were disappearing. Their abductor was Richard Biegenwald,...
by William O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
William O’Rourke’s singular view of American life over the past 40 years shines forth in these short essays on subjects personal, political, and literary, which reveal a man of keen intellect and wide-ranging interests. They embrace everything from the state of the nation after 9/11 to the author’s...
Modern Architecture in Mexico City
History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture,...
Reformasi
The Struggle for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
In July 1996, President Soeharto crossed a point of no return. Small but vocal student groups were staging daily demonstrations to demand 'reformasi' - Indonesia's byword for democratic reform. Disturbed by the unprecedented show of dissent, Soeharto cracked down. But by demonstrating that he would...
All the Trouble in the World
The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author takes an “unfailingly funny” look at global problems and offers his own political perspective (The Washington Times).
In this volume, the political humorist and former National Lampoon editor-in-chief attacks fashionable worries—all those terrible...
by James O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Confident Presenting (9780132354967) by James O’Rourke. Available in print and digital formats. Understand the nonverbal messages you’re sending, control them, and make them work for you! Less than a third of the meaning transferred in a personal...