Running Press: 812 books
Pink Floyd All the Songs
The Story Behind Every Track
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The newest addition to the best-selling All the Songs series details the unique recording history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's most commercially successful and influential rock bands.
Since 1965, Pink Floyd been recording sonically experimental and philosophical music, selling more than...
Led Zeppelin All the Songs
The Story Behind Every Track
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Take a deep dive into the innovative recording history of Led Zeppelin, in this newest addition to the fan-favorite All the Songs series.
Fifty years after their first practice in a Soho basement, Led Zeppelin continues to fascinate new generations of listeners. While their legendary back-stage...
My Dear President
Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
MY DEAR PRESIDENT is a historic, heartfelt collection of letters between first ladies and presidents--including many that have never been published-- that casts a warm, new light on our leaders at their most open-hearted and vulnerable.
"I am very madly in love with you," wrote Lyndon...
by Charles Foxgrover, Anne Kostick, Michael J. Pellowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
National Humor Month won't be the same with this huge, classic collection of side-splitting, groan-worthy, family-friendly jokes, puns, and riddles. Guaranteed LOLs at a time we can all use a laugh.
Between these covers are a staggering 3650 entries - at a joke a day that's 10 full years of...
Manhattan Project
The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
This book chronicles the top-secret Manhattan Project -- the U.S. effort to develop, test, and use an atomic bomb - and the project's legacy. This story is told through unique first-hand accounts, oral histories, and contemporary documents.
The Manhattan Project features first-hand material...
Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes
Revised and Updated! Over 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs, and Put-Downs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Finally in paperback?with lots of brand-new jokes from today's top comedians.
What could be funnier than a great joke? How about 2,000 great jokes? In this side?splitting compendium, revised and updated and featuring a new introduction by Drew Carey, members of the world-renowned Friars Club...
Lincoln's Notebooks
Letters, Speeches, Journals, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This unique collection combines the public and private words of our most beloved and eloquent American president into one essential notebook of his writings.
In addition to being one of the most admired and successful politicians in history, Abraham Lincoln was a gifted writer whose speeches,...
Unseen
Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.
It all started with Times photo editor Darcy...
The Quotable Oscar Wilde
A Collection of Wit and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for any situation, this book is perfect...
Thomas Hardy
The Complete Novels in One Sitting
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Thomas Hardy was one of the greatest Victorian novelists and twentieth-century poets, exploring themes of the human experience and challenging sexual and religious conventions in a way that few other books of his time did. Collected here in this mini compact tome are comprehensive plot summaries and...
by Sally Ann Berk
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This small, chunky volume presents the witty, wonderful, deadpan and droll insight of the Jewish culture. Chapters on Wisdom, Mitzvahs, Dybbuks, Proverbs, Jokes, Curses, Conventions, Mores (ethics), Love & Marriage, Men & Women, Children & Family provide reflections gleaned from a wealth...
Psychos
Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.
From Hannibal...
by Conrad E. Meinecke, Victor Aures
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Ever dream of escaping to a cozy cabin in the great outdoors? This unique bind-up of Conrad Meinecke's classic works helps make that a reality, while imparting a deeper appreciation of nature and of building something with your own two hands.
For 70 years, readers have been enjoying Meinecke's...
New York Times: Disunion
Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A major collection of modern commentary from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion on-line journal.
Since its debut, The New York Times' acclaimed web journal entitled 'Disunion' has published hundreds...