Stan: 1144 books
Maffiaparadijs
een onthutsend beeld van de Italiaanse maffia in Nederland
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Een onthutsend beeld van de Italiaanse maffiapraktijken in Nederland, voor de lezers van Mocro Maffia en de boeken van John van den Heuvel
ITALIAANSE MAFFIAPRAKTIJKEN IN NEDERLAND: ACTUEEL EN SCHOKKEND
Niets lijkt zo Hollands als de bloemenveiling in Aalsmeer. Toch kregen Italiaanse...
How the World Breaks
Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
We’ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren’t what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth’s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire...
The Denver Artists Guild
Its Founding Members; An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In 1928, the newly organized Denver Artists Guild held its inaugural exhibition in downtown Denver. Little did the participants realize that their initial effort would survive the Great Depression and World War II—and then outlive all of the group’s fifty-two charter members.
The guild’s...
My Reality
As It Appears at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? In My Reality, author Stan Green examines and attempts to answer these three basic questions confronting humanity. Writing from the perspective of a well-read and educated person who has lived through the last half of the twentieth and the beginning...
Unmasked
Bernie Parent and the Broad Street Bullies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In a city known as home to some of the sporting world’s biggest stars, few have ever shined as brightly as the Philadelphia Flyers’ Bernie Parent, and this autobiography shares how he became one of the most sensational goalies in NHL history. The catchphrase “Only the Lord saves more than Bernie...
If These Walls Could Talk: St. Louis Cardinals
Stories from the St. Louis Cardinals Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The St. Louis Cardinals are one of baseball’s most storied franchises, and as much a part of St. Louis as Anheuser-Busch and the arch. From Lou Brock to Matt Carpenter, Ozzie Smith to Yadier Molina, Bob Gibson to Adam Wainwright, from Hall of Famers to rookie busts, the Cardinals are beloved in...
by Stan Hoig
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo.After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers,...
A History of Smuggling in Florida
Rumrunners and Cocaine Cowboys
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Think you're a smuggler? With that box of Cuban cigars or those unclaimed duty-free souvenirs from last summer's trip to Paris? Untaxed and untraced commerce-call it contraband-is a trillion-dollar-per-year global business. New technologies to discover and curb smuggling are met by equally well-equipped...
by James Carville, Stan Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! confirms what we have all suspected: Washington and Wall Street have really screwed things up for the average American. Work has been devalued. Education costs are out of sight. Effort and ambition have never been so scantily rewarded. Political guru James Carville...
by Stan Paregien Sr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Guy W. Logsdon grew up in Ada, OK. He graduated from Ada High School, from East Central State University, and worked in two of the family businesses in Ada ( a furniture store and a Western wear store) before becoming the owner of the former Stall Photography Studio.
He went on to earn a doctorate,...
The Art of Scoring
The Ultimate On-Course Guide to Short Game Strategy and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
?The hottest instructor in golf?(Sports Illustrated) presents a revolutionary guide for lowering your score with a powerful new approach to strategizing, decision-making, and management for every part of your short game.
Stan Utley?s breakthrough short game and putting techniques have made...
Sleetmute
A True Story of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
New York City. 1968. I was 24. I had just graduated from college. I applied to VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) as a possible deferment from the Army and Vietnam. I was young and I thought I knew everything. I figured if they had VISTA in any state they had to have VISTA in every state. I requested...
Practice
Architecture, Technique and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, he examines...
Reading the 21st Century
Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers...