Stanley: 2315 books
Finding My Badass Self
A Year of Truths and Dares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Fighting midlife inertia, Sherry Stanfa-Stanley chose to stare down fear through The 52/52 Project: a year of weekly new experiences designed to push her far outside her comfort zone. These ranged from visiting a nude beach with her seventy-five-year-old mother in tow to taking a road trip with her...
Shakespeare and Co.
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow,...
Boswell
A Modern Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Elkin’s striking debut: The story of one man’s comic attempts at immortality
James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that...
by Stanley Elkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A radio host’s rise is the fodder for this “funny, melancholy, frightening . . . absolutely American” National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review).
Since childhood, Dick Gibson has longed for a successful radio career to make him a household name. Seeking to hone his...
by Stanley Ellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In a quaint old restaurant, a chef relies on a devilish secret ingredient
In Sbirro’s restaurant, there is no electric lighting, no music, and no menu. The only sound is the contented sighs of the regulars, who come every night in hopes that Sbirro will treat them to his signature dish, the...
Shameful Flight
The Last Years of the British Empire in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has...
Cowboys As Cold Warriors
The Western And U S History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. Cowboys as Cold Warriors...
by Stanley Wells
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual...
The Big Bing
Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters.
Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic...
Bingsop's Fables
Little Morals for Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
“Amasterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments.”—USA Today
“Bingdelivers his works smoothly, projecting tones of deadpan sarcasm and animatedmockery befitting the often irreverent content.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated business writer and Fortune columnist Stanley...
Cross-Shattered Christ
Meditations on the Seven Last Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
In Cross-Shattered Christ, theologian Stanley Hauerwas offers a moving reflection on Jesus's final words from the cross. This small and powerful volume is theologically poignant and steeped in humility. Hauerwas's pithy discussion opens our ears to the language of Scripture while opening our hearts...
by Patricia & Stanley Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
With Highest Esteem: A Celebration of Physical Existence explores the
dynamic relationship between the physical plane of existence and
the spiritual realms of Consciousness.
This mini book investigates the purposeful “signs“ placed as guideposts on life's path by the Source of All That...
War and the American Difference
Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
How are American identity and America's presence in the world shaped by war, and what does God have to do with it? Esteemed theologian Stanley Hauerwas helps readers reflect theologically on war, church, justice, and nonviolence in this compelling volume, exploring issues such as how America depends...
A Better Hope
Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
By his own admission never one to duck a good fight, Stanley Hauerwas has in the past three decades established himself as one of our most important and most disputatious theologians. With A Better Hope, he concentrates on the constructive case for the truth and power of the church and its faith,...