Geoff: 832 books

On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman’s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper...

The Green Man has many facets, many dimensions. He peers through his leaf mask in hundreds of church misericords and stone carvings. His innate link with the changing seasons and fertility is revealed in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in summer folk customs such as Jack in the...

Even the most die-hard Seattle Sounders fans don't know everything about their beloved club. Whether you were around for the USL days or were drawn in more recently by the team's incredible 2016 comeback, these are the 100 things all fans need to know. Award-winning sportswriter Geoff Baker has collected...

A cartographic thriller with so many twists and turns it requires its own map A cartography-obsessed misfit clerk from an antique map store in a district that's not quite trendy yet. A bold young woman chasing the answer to a question she can't quite formulate. A petty criminal hoping the parking...

In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the “immediate” award of the 1939-1945 Star, with Battle of Britain Clasp. This was the only Clasp awarded with the 1939-1945 Star.

In the following years holders of the Clasp...

In The Republic of Men, Geoff Read explores the intersection of gender bias and the eight most important political parties in interwar France, breaking new scholarly ground in profound ways. The first to compare gender discourse across the political spectrum in a national context and trace the origins...

One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the...

The 75 years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby_two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis_have yielded dramatic changes in the ways in which we conceptualize human relationship as curative. Their different...

This investigation of the events that began on April 15, 2013 and ended with Dzhokhar’s sentencing is presently the most thorough available. It begins by detailing what is accepted by mainstream media and government officials and then observes the drill that happened simultaneously at the Marathon,...

"Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them." - Julian Barnes But what if you're not most people? What if the idea of writing a book - any sort of book - has haunted you for years, but you're not sure where to begin? This is the guide to get you started! Perhaps...

Encore of course means to do it again. This adventure all started over a neighbours dog and you'll have to read the book to find out how that what happened. Have you ever Imagined yourself having a really fantastic 'Adventure before Dementia' ?...

Finally, the must-have cookbook is here for the millions of busy parents who have taken on a healthier approach to eating—less processed, more organic—and who want to feed their little ones easy-to-make, cost-effective, completely nutritious and delicious meals. With more than sixty gourmet-inspired...

  Have you ever wondered what the Phoenicians have to do with your local supermarket ? Come with me on an interesting journey and find out. this little book certainly isn't boring and it's stuffed full of facts with some lovely photo's. I guarantee you'll learn...

How, asks Geoff Goodman in The Internal World and Attachment, can we progress further in integrating the fruits of attachment research with the accumulated clinical wisdom of psychoanalytic theorizing about the internal world of object representations? The key, he answers, is to look more closely...