Tyler: 1161 books
Five Points
The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points,...
Wine Politics
How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
After reading this intriguing book, a glass of wine will be more than hints of blackberries or truffles on the palate. Written by the author of the popular, award-winning website DrVino.com, Wine Politics exposes a little-known but extremely influential aspect of the wine business—the politics behind...
Comics for Film, Games, and Animation
Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In recent years, a new market of convergence culture has developed. In this new market, one story, idea, concept, or product can be produced, distributed, appreciated, and understood by customers in a variety of different media. We are at the tipping point of this new convergence culture, and comics...
Proof of Angels
The Definitive Book on the Reality of Angels and the Surprising Role They Play in Each of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
From the collaborator of the blockbuster bestseller Proof of Heaven comes the definitive book proving angels are real, all around us, and interacting in our lives every day.
In March 2015, millions worldwide were captivated by news reports of the dramatic rescue of an eighteen month old girl,...
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
by Tyler Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
This personal planning workbook is for those who strive to achieve more in life. You will quickly and easily gain a better understanding of where you are, where you will be and how to get there.This process is based on the proven Strategic Planning Process used by many of the world’s most...
What Went Wrong: The Big Picture
How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and What Other Countries Got Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
What Went Wrong: The Big Picture provides an overview of the in-depth analysis of the full book What Went Wrong.Something has gone seriously wrong: The American economy has experienced considerable growth in the last 30 years, but virtually none of this growth has trickled down to the average American....
The Great Stagnation
How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Tyler Cowen’s controversial New York Times bestseller—the book heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economic malaise.
America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening,...
by Kieron Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From rank outsiders to pop stardom a decade later, The Damned blazed an anarchic trail through punk rock to achieve massive chart success. A beacon for the Sex Pistols and The Clash to follow, they flung down the musical gauntlet in 1976 with Britain’s first punk single ‘New Rose’.
Smashing...
by Ken Liu, Daniel Arthur Smith, Alex Shvartsman
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or...
Confession
The Healing of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Confession: The Healing of the Soul is not just about what is termed sacramental confession. Its frame of reference is much wider and includes discussion of those celebrated writers who wrote confessions – Augustine, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Foucault, Freud, Jung, John of the Cross and Wittgenstein....
by Tyler True
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A humorous life story told through 100 different sexual encounters with an unfiltered view into a man-whore's mind. The author uses sex and relationships as a backdrop to discuss a plethora of topics such as: life on the ocean and in the military, world travel, spirituality, health, animal training,...
Fortress America
How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracy
For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,...
by Ann Y. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Meet this mother who bore and raised ten children, Julia Mae Jones Eastman, and yet was fervently determined to preserve the stories of her family ancestry. She meticulously filled the old black and white composition Sterling notebooks in a beautifully flowing longhand using pencil to write down her...