Orr: 402 books
by Stephen Orr
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know whether he'd seen anything at all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-out father.
Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous father...
by David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place
Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected...
Orpheus & Eurydice
A Lyric Sequence
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades.
Gregory...
Orr
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
NHL legend Bobby Orr tells his story from his Ontario childhood to his years with the Bruins and Blackhawks, to today in this New York Times bestseller.
Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest defenseman ever to play the game of hockey. But all the brilliant achievements leave unsaid...
Lean Out
The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Girl gangs reigning terror at Facebook, narcissistic overlords at Google . . . this is the backdrop of Lean Out, which takes readers on the journey of Marissa Orr, a single mom of three trying to find success in her fifteen-year career at the world’s top tech giants. Orr delivers an ambitious attempt...
The Road Not Taken
Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so...
Bobby
My Story in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
One of the greatest sports figures of all time at last breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself.
Number 4. It is just about the most common number in hockey, but invoke that number and you can only be talking about one player -- the man often referred to as the greatest...
The Caged Owl
New & Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct...
Beautiful & Pointless
A Guide to Modern Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of...
Pour l'amour du hockey
L’histoire de Bobby Orr
Language: French
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Voici un livre qu’on n’attendait plus: l’autobiographie de Bobby Orr, l’un des plus grands joueurs de l’histoire du hockey, un défenseur qui a complètement révolutionné son sport durant une carrière prématurément écourtée par des blessures récurrentes aux genoux. D’une humilité...
Panic Diaries
A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its “cures” in the twentieth-century United States: from the mass hysteria...
Hope Is an Imperative
The Essential David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future...
Talking about Machines
An Ethnography of a Modern Job
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives....
Reservation Politics
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring...