Jay: 3078 books
The Odd Clauses
Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. Past the ever-popular monkey house and lion cages, Boston...
Biker's Handbook: Becoming Part of the Motorcycle Culture
Becoming Part of the Motorcycle Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
There are millions of new motorcyclists hitting the blacktop every year. But being part of the American motorcycle culture takes more than just wanting to be cool. It takes a passion for the open road, freedom, and a lifestyle that even the best financing cant buy. This book, by someone who knows...
Rise of ISIS
A Threat We Can't Ignore
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISIS
Jay Sekulow, one of America’s most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.
Recently,...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
**A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007
A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007
Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007
Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History
"The...
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2006
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.
Yet the idea of biology...
Running Rewired
Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Running is America's favorite outdoor sport. 51 million Americans ran in 2014 including 1 in 6 adults (33 million). Runners run 80 days per year, on average.
Competitive running is one of the most popular sports in America, with all-time record highs of 19 million runners finishing a running...
Life Is Not an Accident
A Memoir of Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
This big-hearted memoir by the most promising professional basketball player of his generation details his rise to NBA stardom, the terrible accident that ended his career and plunged him into a life-altering depression, and how he ultimately found his way out of the...
Earnhardt Nation
The Full-Throttle Saga of NASCAR's First Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A colorful, fearless portrait of the larger-than-life first family of NASCAR, the Earnhardts, and the rise of the world’s fastest stock car racing organization.
More than sixty years ago, Ralph Earnhardt toiled in a cotton mill in his native North Carolina to support his growing family. Weekends...
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
"Scientific analysis intersects with flat-out fandom. [Gould] could write, he was funny, and he loved, loved baseball."—Booklist
Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist.Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability...
The Pirates of Somalia
Inside Their Hidden World
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Soon to be a major motion picture
The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating their lives.
For centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the...
The Juice
Vinous Veritas
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious.
For more than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, now featured in The Wall Street...
by J. Jay Kamp
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
The Bayman's Bride, the third book in The Ravenna Evans Series.
Set aboard a sailing ship in the 1790s, The Bayman's Bride is the tale of a formidable Spanish captain who finds himself attracted to the Englishwoman he's been sent to abduct - a woman forbidden because she is his employer's wife.
The...
Better When He's Bad
A Welcome to the Point Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover returns with a heart-stopping new series… Welcome to the Point.
There’s a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad . . . meet Shane Baxter.
Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the...
Better When He's Brave
A Welcome to the Point Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither...