Sean: 2678 books
City of Evil
The shocking real story of Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly - As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
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They call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.
Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the arts, good food...
by Sean McLachlan
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
No Man’s Land—a hellscape of shell craters and dead bodies. Soldiers have fought over it, charged across it, and bled on it for a year of grueling war, but neither side has dominated it.Until now.An elite German raiding party is passing through No Man’s Land every night, attacking the British...
The Ottoman Endgame
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East
Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict,...
Chinese Looks
Fashion, Performance, Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical...
The Best Of Down Goes Brown
Greatest Hits and Brand New Classics-to-Be from Hockey's Most Hilarious Blog
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Hundreds of thousands of hockey fans around the world are addicted to Down Goes Brown, and with good reason: Sean McIndoe is the funniest writer in hockey. His often insightful, always entertaining posts have made the site one of the top hockey blogs in the world—and definitely the most amusing....
A Place in the Sun
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians’ activities in the global south influence future debates about migration and Quebec society? How did migrants, in turn, shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? A Place in the Sun explores...
Longy - Booze, Brawls, Sex and Scandal
The Autobiography of the Wild Man of Rugby League
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Sean Long is Super League's No 1 bad boy and when it comes to off-the-pitch madness, no-one comes close. Not just for rugby league fans, this book is a must-read for anyone with a taste for life on the wild side. Here, the flamboyant Hull and St Helens superstar tells his hilarious, shocking and explosive...
The Bastard Child
A Story of Hope, Resiliency and Perseverance.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The Bastard Child is the long awaited autobiography by author Sean P. Hoggs. His gripping true-life story takes the reader from his abusive and turbulent childhood, through his struggles as a homeless teenager (in the violent inner city streets of Central New Jersey), to his incredible rise onto the...
by Ramsey Campbell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Brian Aldiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
SARA MAITLAND on NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
SEAN O'BRIEN on EDGAR ALLAN POE
JANE ROGERS on FYODOR DOSTOYEYSKY
BRIAN ALDISS on THOMAS HARDY
MARTIN EDWARDS on ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE on ANTON CHEKHOV
ADAM ROBERTS on RUDYARD KIPLING
STEPHEN BAXTER on H.G. WELLS
STUART EVERS on SHERWOOD ANDERSON
ALI...
by Sean Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry,...
Writing Online
Write Your Dreams to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Writing Online is more than a writing book. It's a road map to show you how to make a great living from writing. Writing Online teaches you not only how to write copy that sells, but also marketing, blogging, social media, SEO, list building, and how to build a strong reader or fan base. This is...
by Sean Wilsey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
From reviews of the hardcover edition:“More Curious begins by making you wonder what kind of book it is, exactly, and ends by reminding you that categories are nonsense when you’re enjoying something this much.”—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad“Mr....
Go In Peace: Your Guide to the Purpose and Power of Confession
100 Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Confession, Penance, Reconciliation. The ancient Sacrament of Penance is called many names but has one purpose - the forgiveness of sins. Many Catholics and other Christians are at best uncertain as to the need for confession, and many are anxious at the idea of sharing their sins with a priest. In...
Gumshoe America
Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront...