Max: 3227 books
by Max Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2014
OLD Père Bonot, sunning himself before the doors of a café by the minster, held the Courrier du Bas-Rhin in his hand, and vouchsafed to Rosenbad, the brewer, and to Hummel, the vintner, such particulars of the forthcoming wedding as he found to be good. A glass of coffee stood at Père Bonot’s...
One Incredible Savior
Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
A celebration of the One who changed the world when He came to earth as a baby boy.
This bestselling Lucado Christmas classic is now refreshed and updated with a new title and a beautiful new design. But the heart of the message—the miracle and wonder of the birth of our Lord—remains the...
Five Ways of Being a Painting and Other Essays
The Winners of the Third Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017
Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style, and above all, their ability...
Cells Are the New Cure
The Cutting-Edge Medical Breakthroughs That Are Transforming Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Book discusses important breakthroughs in medical and scientific research that could greatly influence our society’s treatment of diseases
Authors have an established platform from previous book together and from their successful careers
Robin is the founder, president, and CEO of the Stem for Life Foundation
Max is a prominent journalist and health correspondent for CBS
The Prostate Health Program
A Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Can
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
What foods should you eat if you want to keep your prostate healthy? How does sexual activity affect the health of your prostate? What are ways you can prevent prostate cancer? What should African-American men know about prostate cancer? What are the best alternatives to radiation and surgery in treating...
Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution...
Contingency in Madagascar
PHOTOGRAPHY • ENCOUNTERS • WRITING
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency—central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably linked...
Adapting Science Fiction to Television
Small Screen, Expanded Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Before it reached television, science fiction existed on the printed page, in comic books, and on movie screens for decades. Adapting science fiction to the new medium posed substantial challenges: Small viewing screens and limited production facilities made it difficult to achieve the sense of wonder...
John Ovington Returns
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The great-grandson of a missing man inherits his family’s estate. But what happened to the missing man? And what has been left undone? Nothing is as it seems in this early tale from Max Brand.
by Max Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor....
Self Impression
Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valéry, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and...
by Max Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important...
Bizarre Horror Stories: Weird Accounts Of Swamp Monsters, Yowies, Trolls & Other Strange Creatures
Bizarre Horror Stories, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
There are horror stories, and then there are bizarre horror stories. The kind that really makes you scratch your head after reading them, and inspire you to utter the poignantly plaintive refrain, “What the hell was that all about?” These stories of Trolls, Leprechauns, and Robot Aliens serve...
by Max Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Delve into the darkness with author Max Griffin’s collection of nineteen twisted tales of horror. Heavily inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Griffin’s stories will leave you with a sense of foreboding, a glimpse into the mind’s of those who have turned the wrong way, and many times, justifiably so.