Christopher Miller: 49 books
American Cornball
A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor—the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids—and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.
Miller revisits nearly 200 comic...
The Cardboard Universe
A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Genius or fraud? Hack or Hemingway? The life and work of obese, obsessive, logorrheic pulp novelist Phoebus K. Dank have long enflamed bitter controversy—and numerous drunken rants often culminating in vomiting, unconsciousness, or both. In this uproarious novel, Christopher Miller pulls back the...
by Dennis Sheppard, Christopher Miller, AJ Liptak
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with AngularJS in your Microsoft .NET environment. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on your .NET skills and knowledge, helping you quickly learn the essentials of AngularJS, and use it to streamline...
by Christopher Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Tailor your apps to appeal to a global market. Microsoft MVP Chris Miller steps you through the process of enabling multiple language support, while using a single shared set of language resources using the .NET Framework.
You will learn to adapt a simple mobile application for the Android,...
Mixed Martial Arts Unleashed
Mastering the Most Effective Moves for Victory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Get what it takes to win-and unleash the ultimate fighter in you
Think you know your way around the cage? Think again. Mixed martial arts powerhouse Mickey Dimic, two-time middleweight world champion and Hall of Famer, kicks your game into gear with this no-holds-barred guide to grounding and...
The Small Scroll
The Enlightenment of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
When Jesus is born, there is a lot of attention paid to his birth. Still, life seems normal to him and he seems ordinary to those around him. Jesus grows up in the protective realm of his mother, visits his father’s workshop, and learns the scriptures. Sometimes he sees his mother staring into the...
At This Point in Time
Charting the History of the Human Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This book started out as a series of guest appearances on David Lowe’s Sunday Late Show on BBC Radio Devon and Cornwall. This is how it came about: I had appeared on David’s programme for the first time on 31 May 1992, reading a poem called, “Last Words of an Unknown Soldier”. On the following...
Surprise
The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth...
The French Atlantic Triangle
Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...
I’Ve Fallen and I Can Get Up!
The Ultimate Life Recovery Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Many of us live well below our personal potential. Why? Because clusters of self-limiting toxic thoughts adversely shape our perception of ourselves and the world in which we live. Less than optimal early brain development and unresolved negative life experiences hold us captive to repeated patterns...
Impostors
Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other...
by Andrew W. Lo, Deborah M Gordon, Jeffrey P. Bigham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Experts describe the latest research in a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field, the study of groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent.
Intelligence does not arise only in individual brains; it also arises in groups of individuals. This is collective intelligence:...
by Joshua Palmatier, Troy Carrol Bucher, Blake Jessop
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter…
From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression,...
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...