Packer: 182 books
Women of Will
Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From one of the country’s foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and master teacher Tina Packer offers an exploration—fierce, funny, fearless—of the women of Shakespeare’s plays. A profound, and profoundly illuminating, book that gives us the playwright’s changing...
Jane Packer's Guide to Flower Arranging
Tips & techniques for beautiful flowers with more than 25 step-by-step projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Jane Packer is one of London's most sought-after florists and also runs celebrated flower schools in London, New York, and Tokyo. In this irresistible book, Jane covers the same ground as in her four-week career course, here divided into three sections. Flowers to Give teaches all the techniques needed...
J. I. Packer
An Evangelical Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Over the last sixty years, J. I. Packer has exerted a steady and remarkable influence on evangelicalism. In this biography, well-known scholar Leland Ryken acquaints us with Packer’s life, heart, and mind, tracing the outworking of God’s sovereign plan through his childhood, intellectual pursuits,...
The Wonder of Presence
And the Way of Meditative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
In this compelling collection of talks, interviews, and letters, Toni Packer provides a comprehensive overview of the path of meditative inquiry—a nondenominational approach to spiritual growth that emphasizes the direct experience of the present moment. "The immense challenge for each one...
Mobility without Mayhem
Safety, Cars, and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without Mayhem is a lively cultural history of America’s fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth...
Old Ladies
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The stories in Nancy Huddleston Packer’s new collection center on women of a certain age. They are widows, divorcees, the happily married, an artist, a cleaning woman, a professor, the leisurely rich, and the working poor. Whatever their life condition, all the protagonists are decidedly individual....
Lions in the Balance
Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
If you are a morani (warrior), you have your spear at the ready—you could be the hero, but you will have to wait until the morning light before you can go out and prove yourself. If it is a lion, you want to be the first to spear it—and if the lion turns on you, make sure it mauls you on your...
The Children's Crusade
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades.
Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded...
by Craig Packer
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of fifty-two days in the fall of 1991. But this is more than a tour of magnificent animals in an exotic, faraway place. A field biologist since 1972, Packer began his work studying primates at Gombe and then the lions of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro...
The Unwinding
An Inner History of the New America
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The 2013 National Book Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013
A Washington Post Best Political Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013
A New Republic Best Book of 2013
One of Publishers...
by ZZ Packer
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick.
Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected...
by Tina Packer, Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience by Tina Packer and Helen Epstein (9,700 words)
Insights and wisdom from one of America's leading Shakespearean actors and theatrical trainers on how to explore and utilize Shakespeare's work to bring your innate acting talent to surface....
Fisherman’S Call
To Awaken the Heart of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
What would it look like if you gave up your stuff your fears, conditioning and attachment to human-centered drama, and lived purely from your heart? Bill Packer, author of Fishermans Call, sold everything and went into the wilderness determined to open his heart and connect with the Creator though...
Interesting Times
Writings from a Turbulent Decade
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The 2013 National Book Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative...