Gill: 949 books
John Gill: Master of Rock
The life of a bouldering legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
John Gill: Master of Rock is a captivating look into the life, achievements and ethos of boulderer John Gill. This new edition of the classic title is complete with photographs, personal impressions of Gill from climbers such as Yvon Chouinard, and an enlightening interview with Gill himself.
Hailed...
Eating Dirt
Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
"In language as sharp as obsidian, as unsentimental as a clear-cut, Charlotte Gill tells the story of her tree-planting tribe, men and women who spend their lives atoning for the deeds of the rest of us who, to this day, continue to sacrifice the greatest temperate rainforest on earth on the...
by A.A. Gill
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Serialized in Esquire, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death.
“Pour Me a Life is an unapologetically honest,...
by A.A. Gill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday Times of London, the city can rest peacefully in...
Edmund Hillary - A Biography
The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man...
How to Save Your Own Life
15 Inspiring Lessons Including: Finding Blessings in Disguise, Coping with Life's Greatest Challanges, and Discovering Happiness at Any Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns,...
Virginia Woolf
And the Women Who Shaped Her World
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her.**
How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped...
by A.A. Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist serves up an “immensely entertaining book inspired by his love and knowledge of America” (Sunday Times, London).
IN TO AMERICA WITH LOVE, celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist A. A. Gill traverses the Atlantic...
by John Gill
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The time of John Gill was far different. Search for knowledge was just reaching its full height after the world had crawled out of the Dark and Middle ages. Between 1735 and 1738 The Cause of God and Truth appeared from Gill's pen and was a masterpiece in presenting the truth of God's sovereignty...
by Jean Gill
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The antidote to Valentine's Day if you like your reading sharp, not sickly sweet.
'Jean Gill's spiky humour makes you feel as if she's caught you on barbed wire and yet makes you smile about it'– Mike Sharpe, Haverfordwest Journalist
Strong, fresh, vivid poems from award-winning...
Overcoming Anxiety
Reassuring Ways to Break Free from Stress and Worry and Lead a Calmer Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Understand, overcome and break free from worry and anxiety
Bestselling personal development author, Gill Hasson is back and this time she's here to help with something that affects everyone at some point in their life, Anxiety.
Worries and anxieties are familiar to us all. Worrying can...
Previous Convictions
Assignments from Here and There
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Critic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away have found delighted fans in America as well, and sparked a loyal following.
His new book of travel essays, Previous Convictions, ranges from...
Great Goddesses
Life Lessons From Myths and Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesses, both great and small, in their own words.
With lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill (Fierce Fairytales, Wild Embers) uses...
Melancholic Modalities
Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the practices socialized by musicians...