Philip: 4665 books
Becoming Faulkner
The Art and Life of William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the...
Truth's Ragged Edge
The Rise of the American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this...
Rogues' Gallery
The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and woman who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but infinitely desirable qualities that characterize the greatest works of...
Noel Coward
A Biography of Noel Coward
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists.
To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to...
The Ultimate Trophy
How The Impressionist Painting Conquered The World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In 1892 Degas' painting In the Café was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir's Moulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million, accompanied by enthusiastic applause. In this history-cum-memoir...
The Cup
How the 2006 Ryder Cup was Won
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The Cup: How the 2006 Ryder Cup was Won is the definitive account of Europe's triumphant victory in the 2006 Ryder Cup from the pen of Ireland's leading golf journalist. Irish Times Golf Correspondent, Philip Reid, has written the most incisive chronicle of the competition, drawing on his access...
Ghosts of Manhattan
Legendary Spirits and Notorious Haunts
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Ghosts abound in Manhattan, and with the aid of Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg's extensive guide, you can still hobnob with cultural icons such as Dorothy Parker and Sherwood Anderson or glimpse Harry Houdini's ghost, who is said to haunt the legendary McSorley's. Even the spirits of America's most illustrious...
Divas and Scholars
Performing Italian Opera
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip...
by Philip J. Sipkov
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Early Thoughts of a Young Man is a collection of Philip’s poems while he was a student at the George Washington University. The mix of poems and prose, first printed in 1974, include an introduction by his father, Dr. Ivan Sipkov.
by John Philip Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
The President's Embarrassing Demand.
President Cleveland's Veto.
A Chorus of Ten Thousand.
A Tuneful Locomotive.
A Tale of the White House
About the Author
"John Philip Sousa (1854 – 1932) was an American composer and conductor...
by Dr Philip G. Veerasingam
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The 3rd outstanding memoir by Dr Philip G Veerasingam covers the period 1940 to 1960, a revolved era of a simpler life in Ceylon and follows closely on his previous work, Remembered Vignettes – the life of a medical student in Ceylon of the early 1960s and Cry of the Devil Bird – incidents in the life of a surgeon working in Ceylon from 1965 to 2005.
by Philip Kotler, Nancy R. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Up and Out of Poverty: The Social Marketing Solution (ISBN: 9780137141005) by Philip Kotler and Nancy R. Lee. Available in print and digital formats. Why global poverty is more than an abstract moral issue: the surprising, direct impact it has on your life. ...
The Death of an Heir
Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The Death of an Heir is Philip Jett's chilling true account of the Coors family’s gilded American dream that turned into a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong.
In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When...
Paris Between Empires
Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Paris between 1814 and 1852 was the capital of Europe, a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the reaches of France. Paris was the stage where the great conflicts of the age, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, revolution and...