Sam: 2572 books

At the start of the Bronze Age, the first walled city arose in The Land Between the Rivers. This city, Akkad, would create the world's first empire, and Eskkar the outcast barbarian would play a leading role. But in the years before the founding of Akkad, Eskkar would wander the land, struggling to...

Discerning on-the-ground guide to the sights and monuments of these two key destinations. With practical information plus eating and accommodation tips. This ebook comprises two chapters from Blue Guide India: the best guide for the independent traveller to India's art, architecture and...

This book is a humorous, factual rewrite of the Bible in the vernacular. In it, you will find plenty of sex, rapes, incest, violence, fratricide, genocide, slavery, myths, abuse of women and children, false prophecies, contradictions, and other inconsistencies and errors that reveal that the Bible...

The remarkable hero of this book is Rom, a wombat. By chance he meets the sad Jenny, who dreams of being a ballet dancer. Her nasty classmates however won't let her. Rom joins forces with Miss Tiptoe, the driving force behind the Petrova School of Ballet. This formidable pair makes for a blistering 'finale'.

In A Particle of Dread, Sam Shepard takes one of the most famous plays in history—Oedipus Rex—and transforms it into a modern American classic. In this telling, Oedipus, King of Thebes, prophesized to kill his father and marry his mother, alternates between his classical identity and that of contemporary...

The exciting and challenging game of Texas HoldEm Poker is gaining more followers dailyboth young and oldwho enjoy competing, bluffing, and most of all, winning. In this guidebook for both novice and experienced poker players, an avid poker player combines his knowledge of the game with his expertise...

To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake on the eyepiece of his telescope, Sod’s Law says: you are not alone. Sam Leith tells the hilarious-and...

This is the first book in the True Bliss series. However, it can be read by itself (stand-alone).Michael Dwyer has it all. He's good-looking, tall, popular, and is one of the best football players his small Minnesota hometown has ever seen. He's being courted by the NFL draft out of college. Michael...

The independent traveller’s guide to Uttar Pradesh: including Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi (Benares) and Mathura, birthplace of Krishna. With practical information plus eating and accommodation tips. This is a chapter from Blue Guide India: the best English-language guide to India's art, architecture...

User-friendly guide to the sights and monuments of Punjab and its capital Chandigarh, with maps, full background information on Indian history, culture and religions, and eating and accommodation tips. Includes Le Corbusier's planned city of Chandigarh, the Golden Temple at Amritsar (holiest site...

After reading and enjoying poetry, many of us become "wanna-be poets" wanting to develop our own skills and style by learning from experiences of others. The goal is to write our own poems in readable, entertaining form. This simple, practical, handy guide provides the background and essentials...

In his debut poetry collection sam Cheuk attempts to invent a new way of truth-telling. Borrowing disparate ideas and modes ranging from self-censorship and identity performance lyric poetry and phenomenology Cheuk reverse-engineers the parlance of postmodernism in search of the primal motivation behind expression all the while asking the question: is a lie a lie if the liar shows you how he lies?

All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering substantial debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve...

En octubre de 1965, el Presidente Lyndon Johnson declaró que el espíritu de Estados Unidos celebra la tradición de asilo para los oprimidos, y prometió al pueblo de Cuba: “quienes busquen refugio aquí lo encontrarán”. Y así fue. Aún antes del discurso del presidente, miles de cubanos  llegaban...