Μmike: 6654 books
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
My father left home when I was an infant. My one memory of him? My fourth birthday at my grandmother Minnie's house, his mother. He brought me a fuzzy chicken toy, picked me up, stayed for a while and was gone, never to surface again. There went at least one version of my family story.
This...
Living Our Story
Narrative Leadership and Congregational Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Living Our Story explores how good narrative work—the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories—takes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this...
Leaving Footprints Behind
From Combat to Compassion: The Memoir of a Veteran and His Humanitarian End
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Encompassing passion, goodwill, and heart-rending experiences on the frontline of Iraq, veteran Mike Petrone discovered meaning through misfortune. Captivating the essence of compassion, he reveals how his incredible journey enabled him to appreciate life and discover new perspectives through selfless...
by Mike Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Michael-John Wolfe, a Hollywood actor and a professional chauffeur, has compiled seven compelling stories of life-changing encounters with a variety of famous people. In some cases the celebrities are the main catalyst in the story; in others their presence simply helps make the story special. If...
Mr Campion's Farewell
The return of Albert Campion completed by Mike Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Golden Age of British Detective Fiction
The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn’t run by the parish council, the rating authority, the sanitary inspector nor the local cops as you might suppose. The real bosses are the Carders – something to do with wool, four hundred years...
by Mike Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history. Witness...
Jack Meets His Match
(two Innings, Unlimited Overs)
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
It's true our Jack spent some years in a 'Daft School', but whether that was as a teacher or an inmate is anyone's guess. This is his story, as told -as a screenplay- to Mike P Greenwood.
England, some time ago; and they have just changed all the money around, so...
The Stories We Tell
How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
The average American watches 5 hours of TV every day.
Collectively, we spend roughly $30 billion on movies each year.
Simply put, we’re entertainment junkies. But can we learn something from our insatiable addiction to stories? Mike Cosper thinks so.
From horror flicks to rom-coms,...
The Nine Horizons
Travels in Sundry Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In 1987 Mike Robbins, a young journalist in London, felt restless and decided to travel. He never really stopped. In the quarter century that followed he lived and worked in countries as diverse as the world itself. The pieces in this book take the reader from rural Sudan to the headwaters of the Amazon,...
Baudrillard's Bestiary
Baudrillard and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural...
The TTC Story
The First Seventy-five Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.
The...
by Mike Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
Do you find yourself constantly resenting other people for their success? Do you often find it hard to celebrate your own triumphs? Have certain failures in your past prevented you from moving forward and pursuing your goals and dreams? When things go wrong, do you find yourself giving up rather quickly?...
1848
Year of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
"A fully nuanced portrait of a tumultuous year." --Wall Street Journal
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815-but which in...
by Mike Lux
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Having spent a lifetime fighting the good fight in the trenches of the progressive movement and Democratic Party, Mike Lux has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of politics up close and personal. From the glorious victories to the staggering defeats to the persistent stagnation of never getting...