Toby: 389 books

Movies are full of intrigue, action, heartache, and corruption. What more could you ask for in a writing prompt! Inspired by movie plots, this book of over 100 prompts will fire up your creative juices and take your imagination to new heights. Write away!(These prompts are genderless – they are geared for men and women simultaneously.)

Books with characters that jump off the page, grab readers by the throat, and don't let go are unforgettable. But how do you create multi-dimensional characters? The trick is to know the characters as well as you know yourself. This book will help you achieve that with its list of almost 400...

Being a hybrid writer guarantees that your writing journey will never be dull. Hybrid writers don’t stay inside the lines. In a 24 hour period, a writer today may pen a blog post, submit an article to an editor on another continent via e-mail, publish an e-book, update their social media statuses,...

This follow-up to the best-selling 300 Writing Prompts for Teens offers even more questions for teens to use when looking for a kick in the butt to get writing. As a bonus, at the end you’ll find over a dozen prompts that deal with the future. Happy writing!

Jennifer Lopez is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. She is a triple threat – a successful singer, actress, and dancer. As if that isn’t enough, she has conquered television, too. The mother of twins born in 2008, Lopez is just as known for her rollercoaster love life as she is for...

One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of...

Deer hunting continues to be the number-one type of hunting in NorthAmerica, and it's easy to understand why. Unlike other big-game animals that have declined in population due to man's development of wild lands, the whitetail has thrived. In fact, some of the largest bucks in the record books were...

Four old men—John, Gino, Larry, and Frank—have been warehoused at "the Manor," a long-eroded home for the forgotten. The men take turns telling stories, stalling death as they relive pivotal parts of their pasts. Outside, the cliff crumbles and a lighthouse slips toward the sea.John, in...

From Captain Cook's globe to Mabo's map, and Melba's frock to Cathy Freeman's running suit, this is Australia's history told through a gallery of things. Former Rolling Stone editor Toby Creswell has curated an illustrated popular history of Australia accumulated through the review of 100 fascinating...

In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote, “What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced.” In casting aside their European mores, these...

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization,...

Why am I narcissistic enough to think a book about what I do every day would ever interest anyone? I don’t find myself that fascinating. But I get asked one question over and over again – what is it like to be a freelance writer? I work from home 95% of the time and people have no clue how the...

Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive “how-to” guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research...

An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...