Lyons Press: 836 books
When the Game Changed
An Oral History of Baseball's True Golden Age: 1969-1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
An authoritative look back at the decade that brought America’s favorite game into the modern era.
Big Book of Self-Reliant Living
Advice And Information On Just About Everything You Need To Know To Live On Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Rural homesteaders and urban apartment-dwellers alike will find a mother lode of practical information packed into this completely revised and updated edition of the ultimate how-to handbook for all generations. A selective compendium of public-domain documents, it brings together in one volume a...
The Diehard Football Fan's Bucket List Blitz
101 Rivalries, Tailgates, and Gridiron Traditions to See & Do Before You’re Sacked
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In the first and only all-inclusive football fan’s bucket-list book, author Steve Greenberg gives readers a full-color, full-speed ride through 101 must-see and must-do gridiron experiences—from high school to the NFL, from coast to coast, from must-have eats to the game’s best seats, from the...
Hit Me!
Fighting the Las Vegas Mob by the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Las Vegas, 1970s—a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes--the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history--whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair’s breadth...
Looking for Hemingway
Spain, the Bullfights, and a Final Rite of Passage
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s. The experience tested all the credos of bravery and grace under pressure he had lived by.
Just months before turning sixty, Ernest Hemingway headed for Spain...
One Lucky Bastard
Tales from Tinseltown
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, he’s an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he’s also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of...
Senior Moments
What Happens When Your Brain Lets You Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Comprising the experiences of everyone from politicians to TV talking heads, from the famous to the infamous (and everyone in-between), Senior Moments is chockful of advice, anecdotes, confessions, quotes, tips, and excuses—and dishes it all out without straining its back.
Ill Nature
Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds...
Orvis Guide to Gunfitting
Techniques To Improve Your Wingshooting, And The Fundamentals Of Gunfit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The Orvis Guide to Gunfitting is required reading for anyone who enjoys shotgun sports. This easy-to-follow manual explains the nuances of gunfit clearly through analysis of technique and can greatly improve a shooter's ability and effectiveness in the field by teaching the Orvis Method of creating...
Dressage Masters
Techniques and Philosophies of Four Legendary Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Dressage Masters takes the reader into four of the greatest training stables in Europe. The master instructors express their philosophies and practices with regard to training horses and riders, and the state of dressage in the United States and elsewhere in the world. They also share fascinating and...
101 Ranch Horse Tips
Techniques For Training The Working Cow Horse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
A well-trained, responsive, and intelligent working cow horse is more than just a pleasure to ride or watch in action; such an animal is an integral part--a prized employee, if you will--of a ranch's workforce. How to find and then educate the horse to work cattle in pens and on the range, to negotiate...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called "Mountain Men."...
Box!
Castles, Kitchens, and Other Cardboard Creations for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
How many times have you spent money on some fancy new toy for your child, only to have her ignore the toy and instead crawl into the large box it came in? Whether you’re on a budget or just refuse to pay high prices for noisy, plastic toys, Box! offers parents do-it-yourself, environmentally friendly...
Historic Denali National Park and Preserve
The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Celebrating our national parks
Denali National Park celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2017
The park attracts more than 400,000 visitors annually
More than 60 historic photographs throughout
Historic Denali National Park is a vibrant narrative that covers different parts of the park’s...