Sam: 2572 books
The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium...
by Sam Horn
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin WilliamsWelcome. Congratulations to you for carving time out of your busy schedule to discover how to make a mint from your mind.I agree with Robin Williams that words and ideas can change the world...
Germany in the Modern World
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
With a careful blend of concision and rich detail, Sam A. Mustafa's readable and lively text traces German history from Roman times to the present, placing particular emphasis on the past three centuries. Balanced and clearly written, the book guides readers expertly through the complex tangle of...
Italy: Do It Yourself Vacations
DIY Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Planning your dream Italian vacation is so easy with this book
Italy is where History, Art, Culture and Romance reign supreme. There is something magnetic about Italy that it keeps fascinating people, year after year and century after century. Be it visiting Necropolis (city of the dead), deep...
by Sam Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets...
Jet Age
The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet.
In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel...
by Sam Q. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
As a follow up, but not quite a sequel, to my book, The Psychiatric Salad Bar: Adventures in Autism and alternative Realities, I had planned to offer up travel tips down the road of raising an autistic child, and to a degree, I have, but I decided to branch out and cover the plethora of roads leading...
Start Right Where You Are
How Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated Overachievers, and Recovering Perfectionists
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
What Are You Waiting For? An overwhelmed procrastinator, frustrated overachiever, and recovering perfectionist herself, Sam Bennett knows all the ways we avoid pursuing our dreams and reaching our goals. She also knows how to “get it done.” Start Right Where You Are is an easy-to-read, easy-to-do...
F.U.B.A.R.
How the Right Wing Has Stolen America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The United States has survived clueless presidential administrations before. But no matter how enormous the crisis -- the Great Depression, Vietnam, Watergate, Monica Lewinsky's thong -- America's always come out looking like, well, America.
This time, however, something's different. Things...
All About All About Eve
The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2001
To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars--including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm--found their best roles in Eve and its sophisticated dialogue has...
Improv Nation
How We Made a Great American Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award
“A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . . And, in case you’re wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable story, magnificently told.” — Booklist
In this richly reported, scene-driven narrative,...
Sleeping with Lumbago
Often Humorous, Always Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Spanning seven decades from his 1940s childhood in Rochester, New York, to his retirement in Southern California,Sleeping with Lumbago documents the events and experiences of author Sam R. Culottas life. He recalls his Catholic school days, his familys migration west, his teens, his military service,...
Inventing Elsa Maxwell
How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Inventing Elsa Maxwell, the first biography of this extraordinary woman, tells the witty story of a life lived out loud.
With Inventing Elsa Maxwell, Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself–not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she...
by Sam Barrington
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Ask Dr. BlackJack By Sam Barrington What do the Readers Think of "Ask Dr Blackjack"? "I struggled to stay even playing Blackjack and thought I could be a better player. After reading "Ask Dr Blackjack" my game really picked up when I instituted the extra plays in the book"....