Thad: 54 books
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
A warm and intuitive portrait of the secret Paris—one closed to all but a knowing few—The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is the perfect book for music lovers, or for anyone who longs to recapture a lost passion.
Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon...
by Thad Komorowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The all-time greatest TV cartoon's psychotic saga!In the 1990s animation boom, The Ren & Stimpy Show stood supreme. Animation's most talented and disturbed artists created an entity for the Nickelodeon cable network that pulled the art form out of a 25-year rut. The world has never...
by Thad Ziolkowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In this wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prizewinning poet poignantly looks back at his adolescent surfing years.
As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad Ziolkowski decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline....
By the Smoke and the Smell
My Search for the Rare and Sublime on the Spirits Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Spirits expert Thad Vogler, owner of the James Beard Award–winning Bar Agricole, takes readers around the world, celebrating the vivid characters who produce hand-made spirits like rum, scotch, cognac, and mezcal. From the mountains of Mexico and the forbidden distilleries of Havana, to the wilds...
by Thad Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Ten women. Each one between a rock that might be her tombstone and a hard place that it may take a gun to blast her way out of. Author Thad Brown's collection of hard bitten, bullet paced fiction centered on women embroiled in violence and danger takes Pulp to a whole new level. Being a Woman often...
The Metadata Handbook
A Book Publisher's Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
For book publishers large and small: the #1 guide to creating and distributing metadata for maximum sales by Renée Register & Thad McIlroy
• 138 pages, illustrated with charts & graphs
• Includes a comprehensive glossary of industry & technical...
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed...
Big Thicket People
Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional...
by Steven A. Finkler, Daniel L. Smith, Dr. Thad D. Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Reflecting recent changes in accounting standards, this Sixth Edition of Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations, by Steven A. Finkler, Daniel L. Smith, and Thad D. Calabrese, provides a comprehensive yet practical introduction to the financial decision-making and...
Abortion Politics in Congress
Strategic Incrementalism and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors (such as the ideological composition of committees and party systems) shape the development of abortion...
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences
A Design-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the...
Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing
A Practical Guide to the Evolving Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Major trends are reshaping the digital future for publishers: growth in the tablet and ebook markets are leveling off, while mobile devices are booming in just about every area for which there's a measure. That's changing the demands on publishers at every stage of the publishing process, from discovery...
by Brandon Terry, Joshua Cohen, Barbara Ransby
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Martin Luther King's legacy for today's activists, fifty years after his death.
Since his death on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King's legacy has influenced generations of activism. Edited and with a lead essay by Brandon Terry, this volumeexplores what this legacy can and cannot do for activism...
by Thad Box
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Award winning watercolor artist Marie Dwyer and columnist Thad Box combine their crafts to bring Buds frustration in building a mud house to young readers. Adobe, or sun dried bricks, are the most common building materials in arid lands.