Gordon: 4430 books
by Cameron Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This is a collection of haiku written by Cameron Gordon in the classic English language form of 5-7-5 (three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively). These 48 haiku are organised under broad themes of: Seasons, Waiting Rooms, Sexuality and Relationships, the Workings of the Mind, Perceptions...
A Handful of Summers
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From beginnings on a gravel court on a farm in rural South Africa, Gordon Forbes went on to travel the world with his long-time tennis partner Abe Segal during the late 1950s and early 60s: the glory days of Fred Perry, Roy Emerson and Virginia Wade. In this delightful insider’s account of tennis...
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell
For the first time, Ramsay tells the full inside story of his life and how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his...
They Call Me Supermensch
A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock’n’Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.
In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest...
The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised
40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
For many Americans, eating...
by Gordon Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Former Prime Minister and the country’s longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.
In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss...
When Money Grew on Trees
A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the...
by Gordon Long
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Gordon Long, PO, BSAE, MBA, Ph.d. Professor Emeritus Georgia College & State University, University System of Georgia, Milledgeville Georgia. Born at home in Girard, Burke County, Georgia in the middle of the official depression, and while it was not the intent of his family, the...
Rockabilly
The Twang Heard 'Round the World: The Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
It was the twang heard 'round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock ’n’ roll and ruling the world. Here’s the story of Elvis Presley’s first Sun records that inspired all. And here’s Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran,...
Nancy Cunard
Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."
Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that...
The Hemingway Monologues: An Epic Drama of Love, Genius and Eternity
Part Three: Death in the Afternoon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
With The Hemingway Monologues Brian Gordon Sinclair gives us an intimate insight into the circumstances that shaped the famed author’s life and inspired him in his writing. Death in the Afternoon is the third in this seven-play series that traces Hemingway’s chronology from birth to death. Brian...
Stanislavsky in America
An Actor's Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Stanislavsky in America explores the extraordinary legacy that Constantin Stanislavski’s system of actor-training has left on acting in the US.
Mel Gordon outlines the journey of Stanislavski’s theories through twentieth century American history, from the early US tours of the Moscow Art...
Home
What It Means and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Where do you live? The answer to this seemingly simple question can be more complicated than you'd think.Drawing on personal experience, Mary Gordon examines various forms of abode-from her childhood house in Far Rockaway to apartments in Palo Alto, Rome, and the Upper West Side-as well as the very concept...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Stevie Ray Vaughan Buying Guide is an illustrated, album by album overview of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist’s too-brief career including a condensed artist biography, a discography with complete song listings, and even a select discography of bootleg albums, all compiled by the Rev....