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Leading Organizations
Ten Timeless Truths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Every year, over 10,000 business books are published-and that's before you add in the hundreds of thousands of articles, blogs, and video lectures that are produced. Leaders can't possibly hope to digest it all, and writers increasingly sensationalize and spin their ideas in order to be noticed. The...
Pinstripe Empire
The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An exciting history of the world's greatest baseball team from a former Yankees Public Relations Officer.
"A riveting and comprehensive history of the Yankees" – New York Times
Is there a sports team more synonymous with winning than the New York Yankees? The team of Ruth,...
by Ann Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Ann Bridge, besides being a famous author, was also, in her own words, "a person who frequently has, when awake, inexplicable 'knowings' of events taking place at a distance: and, in dreams, am informed, sometimes uncomfortably, of facts of which I can have no knowledge by normal means†?.
In...
by Justin Racz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
They're kooky, they're crazy-50 Relatives Worse Than Yours is a nightmarish family reunion that will have you appreciating your own weird clan. There's the Family Newsletter Publisher who keeps you updated on how Uncle Carl's hip is doing; there's Holistic New Age Aunt, who knows Madonna from Kabbalah...
by Wendy Shanker
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life...
Robertson's Book of Firsts
Who Did What for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Completely unlike any encyclopedia before it, The Book of Firsts is the product of decades of archiving and research from the incredible Patrick Robertson. For many years the proprietor of a stock photo archive and collector of all forms of ephemera, Robertson boasts a library that includes ads, clippings,...
How to Survive in Teaching
Without imploding, exploding or walking away
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Drawing on years of research and first-hand experience, How to Survive in Teaching offers support, advice and practical suggestions to help you and your colleagues stay flourishing, positive and most importantly, stay teaching!
Recent statistics show that not enough teachers are entering the...
Illegal Procedure
A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation...
How to Cook Like a Man
A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Daniel Duane was a good guy, but he wasn't what you might call domestic. Yet when he became a father, this avid outdoorsman was increasingly stuck at home, trying to do his part in the growing household. Inept at so many tasks associated with an infant daughter, he decided to take on dinner duty....
by Jennifer Crwys-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black
domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society
in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal
opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.
But if needs be, it is...
by Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Pete Dale
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always...
by David Toop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.
In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice...
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month...
The Lost World of James Smithson
Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...