Matthew: 5036 books
by Matthew Bevis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage...
No Future
Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976–84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture,...
F U, Penguin
Telling Cute Animals What's What
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Perfect for the Scrooge in your life—a profane, hilarious takedown of all things cute and cuddly, by the author of the blog sensation of (almost) the same name
Attention, all you clumsy pandas, lovable puffins, huggable bunnies, and penguins that elicit ooohs and aaahs: The jig is up! We...
by Matthew Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The thrilling new novel featuring Jack West, Jr. from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Matthew Reilly!
A shadow world behind the real world
When Jack West, Jr. won the Great Games, he threw the four legendary kingdoms into turmoil.
A world with its own history,...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
by Matthew W. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Go behind the scenes of popular soap opera To Live And Love in this humorous short story in which the backstage drama is more intense than what happens in front of the camera.
Follow hopeful actor Robert Schwarzmann in his journey from a small town in Maine to the glitz and glamor lifestyle...
The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans...
The Bestseller Code
Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so."—Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author
Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you’ll typically hear that it’s a game of...
London
A Travel Guide Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.
Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages...
A Spirituality Named Compassion
Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
• Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence
• A road map to fulfillment for the coming century
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox, the popular and controversial...
Who Is Rich?
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A provocative satire of love, sex, money, and politics that unfolds over four wild days in so-called “paradise”—the long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat
“I seriously, deeply love this book.”—Michael Cunningham
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
Tradition Digitized
Ancient Poems Flowing in Modern Streams
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
50 classic poems reflowing in a modern medium. Originally published in black ink on white paper, 16 traditional poets have now been rendered digitally for e-readers.
Poetry is the oldest and most flexible art form, and has migrated from performances to papyrus rolls to printed pages. Far from...
by Matthew Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The...
Post-Truth
The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke...