Wall: 390 books
Dogfight at the Pentagon
Sergeant Dogs, Grumpy Cats, Wallflower Wingmen, and Other Lunacy from the Wall Street Journal's A-Hed Column
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal’s popular, and long-standing A-hed column.
One of the Wall Street Journal’s most popular features for more than seventy years, the daily A-hed column—named for a headline that looked...
Stolen Innocence
My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Both creepy…and quite moving.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”
—People
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose...
Streamliner
Raymond Loewy and Image-making in the Age of American Industrial Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design. Combining salesmanship and media savvy, he created bright, smooth, and colorful logos for major corporations that included Greyhound, Exxon, and Nabisco. His designs for Studebaker...
Lemmy
The Definitive Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, 'Actually, I want to go the day before forever. To avoid the rush...'. This...
Appetite for Destruction
The Mick Wall Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Whether it's hanging around with Marillion's Fish in Berlin, seeing Whitesnake fail to ignite 1985's Rock in Rio, talking through old times with Jimmy Page in his Berkshire pile or following Ozzy Osbourne to Moscow, there isn't a rock luminary that Wall hasn't cross-examined or kept the flame burning...
How Kentucky Became Southern
A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The conflicts of the Civil War continued long after the conclusion of the war: jockeys and Thoroughbreds took up the fight on the racetrack. A border state with a shifting identity, Kentucky was scorned for its violence and lawlessness and struggled to keep up with competition from horse breeders...
Into Africa
A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
*Winner of the 2016 Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing
Awarded first place in the 2016 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in the History and Public Policy category*
The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth...
The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
The history of the commons—jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use—provides a useful context for current debates...
To Be an Agnostic
An Agnostic Approach to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
To Be an Agnostic Seeking knowledge, truth and wisdom through the philosophy of agnosticism
Chicago Todays America seems to split in two opposing parties: those who feel religion is under attack, and those who feel religion is unjustly pushing itself into secular life. While many books exist...
by Mick Wall
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward e Ozzy Osbourne. A escalação do time original do Black Sabbath está na ponta da língua dos fãs. Mas até mesmo o mais ardoroso admirador teria dificuldade em lembrar o nome dos outros 21 músicos que ajudaram a construir essa lenda do rock. Em 45 turbulentos...
by Mick Wall
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Em novembro de 1989, quando a queda do Muro de Berlim liberou os alemães orientais para devorarem os bens de consumo do mundo capitalista, os discos de música mais procurados por eles não foram os dos Beatles, de Bob Dylan, Mozart ou Beethoven. Foram os do AC/DC. Publicada à época pela revista...
by Mick Wall
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Nesta biografia considerada o relato definitivo da carreira meteórica de um dos fundadores da música pesada, o lendário jornalista de rock Mick Wall reúne entrevistas realizadas com os membros do Led Zeppelin ao longo de mais de quatro décadas, uma vasta pesquisa em jornais e revistas, consultas...
Being and Owning
The Body, Bodily Material, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
When part of a person's body is separated from them, or when a person dies, it is unclear what legal status the item of bodily material is able to obtain. A 'no property rule' which states that there is no property in the human body was first recorded in an English judgment in 1882. Claims based on...
Moral Creativity
Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
In Moral Creativity, John Wall argues that moral life and thought are inherently and radically creative. Human beings are called by their own primordially created depths to exceed historical evil and tragedy through the ongoing creative transformation of their world. This thesis challenges ancient...