Shepherd: 671 books
Neurogastronomy
How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of smell diminished during human evolution, Shepherd argues that...
The Solitary House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Lynn Shepherd’s first acclaimed novel of historical suspense, Murder at Mansfield Park, brilliantly reimagined the time of Jane Austen. Now, in this spellbinding new triumph, she introduces an unforgettable duo of detectives into the gaslit world of Dickens.
London, 1850. Charles Maddox had been...
In God We Trust
All Others Pay Cash
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
The beloved, bestselling classic that became the movie, A CHRISTMAS STORY -- humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition.
Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his...
Orpheus in the Bronx
Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."
---James Longenbach
A...
by Alfred Bekker, Conrad Shepherd
Language: German
Release Date: June 23, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: June 23, 2019
SF-Abenteuer von Alfred Bekker und Conrad Shepherd Menschen in den Weiten des Kosmos – auf sich gstellt und fern der Erde. In ihren Raumschiffen erobern sie das All und werden mit dem Unfassbaren konfrontiert. Darum geht es in den phantastischen Weltraum-Abenteuern von Alfred Bekker und Conrad Shepherd....
by Jean Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
Jean Shepherd was one of America’s...
A Fatal Likeness
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
With The Solitary House, award-winning author Lynn Shepherd introduced readers to Charles Maddox, a brilliant private detective plying his trade on the gaslit streets of Dickensian London. Now, in this mesmerizing new novel of historical...
New Self, New World
Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration,...
by Alfred Bekker, Conrad Shepherd
Language: German
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: July 11, 2019
SF-Abenteuer von Alfred Bekker und Conrad Shepherd Menschen in den Weiten des Kosmos – auf sich gstellt und fern der Erde. In ihren Raumschiffen erobern sie das All und werden mit dem Unfassbaren konfrontiert. Darum geht es in den phantastischen Weltraum-Abenteuern von Alfred Bekker und Conrad Shepherd....
by Nan Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson. The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and humorous, the grace and style of Shepherd’s...
The Parallel English / Greek Shepherd of Hermas
Cross-Linked to Strong's Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
This is the parallel English / Greek text of the Shepherd of Hermas. The English translation is by J. B. Lightfoot. In this version each Greek word is either linked to Strong's Dictionary or to a condensed Koine Greek dictionary at the back of the book.
The Shepherd was a popular writing in...
Neuroenology
How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine's sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscience, biomechanics, human physiology, and traditional enology. Shepherd shows, just as he did in Neurogastronomy:...
by Alfred Bekker, Conrad Shepherd
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Krieg um die Erde (Syndic 1-4, Sammelband) Von Alfred Bekker, Conrad Shepherd Dieses Buch enthält folgende Thriller der Science Fiction-Serie SYNDIC: Conrad Shepherd: Geheimprojekt Exodus Conrad Shepherd: Operation Hades Alfred Bekker: Kennwort Phönix Alfred Bekker: Strahlenhölle Messias SYNDIC...
by Alfred Bekker, Conrad Shepherd
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2019
SF Sammelband 3 Weltraum-Abenteuer: Angriff aus der Raumzeit/Zuflucht Erde/Operation Sagittarius von Alfred Bekker, Conrad Shepherd Dieses Buch enthält folgende Weltraum-Abenteuer: Alfred Bekker/Conrad Shepherd: Angriff aus der Raumzeit Conad Shepherd: Zuflucht Erde Conrad Shepherd: Operation Sagittarius...