George Evans: 23 books

Theres A Lobster Loose! For more than ten years, five would-be writers have somehow managed to discard infirmity, tragedy, parental and spousal responsibility, sucky jobs, suckier prospects, literary rejection and the basic planetary pull of lifes gravity to join one another in a unique collective...

Part 1 of The Executive Summary shows you a technique that will have you smashing targets like an adrenalin fueled downhill ride and not an uphill struggle. You're an owner/manager or senior exec in a corporation and flat out making your business a success. You've got snatched moments for inspiration...

Somewhere in the Midwest, there lived a worm called Wringles. He was a happy and a curious worm. He wiggled and wiggled from the day he was born. His family giggled whenever Wringles wiggled. Sometimes he accidentally wiggled into trouble, but he usually found a way to wiggle out of it. During the...

A Train of Dreams Lives are changed forever on a train. The Green Bench by the Lake A retired man affects the lives of strangers passing by. The Sea Also Rises The consequences of climate change brings people together. Sejal A poor girls family in India is influenced by a candlemaker. Andys Journey...

The Gold Pocket Watch: A grandfathers watch plays an important role in his granddaughters life. Free Manure: Two bumbling, harmless ex-convicts are outsmarted by a woman who runs an orphanage. Earl and Four Socks: Against all odds, a horse trainer and a race horse regain their rightful places. Jeffs...

Following his two classics, Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and The Horse in the Furrow, renowned oral historian George Ewart Evans continues his study of the vanishing customs, working habits and rich language of the farming communities of East Anglia with The Pattern Under the Plough (Faber, 1966)....

The pioneering oral historian, George Ewart Evans, began to record the farming ways of East Anglia in the 1950s by listening to old men and women whose memories went back more than fifty or sixty years. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms...

The Suffolk Punch - that sturdy, compact draft horse of noble ancestry - was, until mechanisation, the powerhouse of the East Anglian farming community. In The Horse in the Furrow (1960), renowned social historian George Ewart Evans explores this potent symbol of a bygone era, and the complex network...

The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes PEACEMAKER,...

There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes...

Master corporate valuation: the financial art and science of accurately valuing any business. George Chacko's Applied Corporate Finance: Valuation is the first valuation book to combine true academic rigor with the practical skills you need to successfully value companies in the real world. Renowned...

A stand-out character in an entertainment industry where persona is everything, George “The Animal” Steele shares how he balanced his real life as Jim Myers, a highly respected high school teacher and coach, with the green tongued, hairy backed, turnbuckle eating wrestling icon he was in the ring....

How the financial crisis really happened, and what it really meant: 3 books packed with lessons for investors and policymakers! These three books offer unsurpassed insight into the causes and implications of the global financial crisis: information every investor and policy-maker needs to prepare for...

An astounding achievement in research and writing, the Guide for Washington is a rare and beautiful book for visitors and time travelers alike. Published in 1892, the aim of the book is to present, with care and reverence, the unbelievable story of the United States Capital -- how it grew from a muggy...