Barnes: 1105 books

A lifelong countryman and a keen shot, David Barrington Barnes recounts his memories of a lifetime of shooting exploits in this collection of all-new stories. From his earliest experiences ratting with a garden gun to enjoying luxurious hospitality on the finest driven shooting days, his passion for...

Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller! "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...

Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday and the ephemeral meals, drinks, weather, work, moments of solitude or connection...

A “wildly entertaining homage to the best ’60s Heinlein juveniles,” from a multiple Nebula finalist (Publishers Weekly).   Jak Jinnaka’s teenage life in the thirty-sixth century has been nothing but fun—ignoring school, partying outrageously with his beautiful girlfriend, Sesh, and spending...

What is the basic toolkit for writing a novel? The New Author by Ruby Barnes puts you on the right track with fundamentals of plot, pace & structure, planning, characters, settings, dialog and editing. How does a new author establish an 'author platform'? Read straightforward instructions...

‘Het enige verhaal’ van Julian Barnes is een pijnlijk mooie roman over eerste liefde – en de levenslange gevolgen daarvan. Begin jaren zestig. In een saaie voorstad van Londen brengt de negentienjarige student Paul de zomermaanden door in zijn ouderlijk huis. Op aanraden van zijn moeder schrijft...

«¿Preferirías amar más y sufrir más o amar menos y sufrir menos? Creo que, en definitiva, esa es la única cuestión», reflexiona al inicio de la novela su protagonista. En la década de los sesenta, cuando tenía diecinueve años y regresó de la universidad para pasar el verano en casa de...

The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and...

Few people today recognize Rudolf Steiners name, yet those who are aware of him know that his presence pervades every forward-looking aspect of contemporary life. Nearly all fields of life have been fructified by his insightsnot abstractly or theoretically, but in a concrete way that changes lives. No...

This isn’t your feel good fiction nor is it your drama filled novel; this is a direct life line thrown in a desperate attempt to help revive the rapidly decaying image of young black men and males in general. I wish I had the time too eloquently describe the bountiful traits displayed within these...

"THE PURPOSE OF POLITICS IS NOT TO DEFEAT YOUR OPPONENT AS MUCH AS IT IS TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR LEADERSHIP AND BETTER IDEAS THAN THE OPPOSITION." —JACK KEMP The late 1970s were miserable for America. It was the post–Vietnam, post–Watergate era, a time of high unemployment, ruinous...

Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement...

Over many centuries, wars have been lost due to lack of food and proper supplies for the troops. Without a way to survive, the troops had to retreat rather than stay and fight. The same need applied to ships at sea. New York to Okinawa Sloooooowly is the true story of a soldier who served on one of...

Want to make your students more responsible for their own learning? Want to create an academic environment in which students thrive and develop a genuine thirst for knowledge? Want to improve your students’ standardized test results but avoid a “teach-to-the-test” mentality that throttles creativity...