Books imprint: 120884 books
by Ellen Cheshire
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
A comprehensive overview of the director Jane Campion and her work.
Campion is one of the few women film-makers working today who has managed to create a unique body of work. A true independent film-maker, she has attracted many ‘A’ List Hollywood actors to appear in her films.
Who...
by Daniel Corkery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1979
Daniel Corkery’s classic book The Hidden Ireland is a study of Irish language poetry and culture in eighteenth-century Munster. The ‘Hidden Ireland’ of the title is literary Ireland: Corkery’s famous book is an attempt to reclaim Munster’s Irish language poets from the hands of grammarians...
Snail and Worm Again
Three Stories About Two Friends
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Geisel Honor Winner
In this silly sequel to Snail and Worm, the dynamic duo are back for more fun and giggles in three new comic shorts brimming with quirky humor and unflappable friendship. At turns clever and sweet, these laugh-out-loud stories are perfect for readers coming out of their own shells and making the transition between picture books and chapter books.
by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
An autobiography unlike other literary forms shows the ego of an author. Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm’s ego is delicate, fascinating, and courageous. Some fragments are almost like a movie with interesting dialog, compelling moments, and realistic characters.
Vividly portrayed are dedicated...
Sin, Sex & Subversion
How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America?s New Normal
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
During the tumultuous 1950s in America, sex was as threatening to the nation’s moral order as communism. New York was the capital of the postWorld War II world and the epicenter of a fierce culture war over music, theatre, movies, fashion, and literature, as well as birth control, homosexuality,...
The Great Quiz Book
1000 Questions and Answers to Engage All Minds
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1905
It is our pleasure to present The Great Quiz Book: 1000 Questions and Answers to Engage all Minds.
We’ve brought together a host of fresh and intriguing questions that will test the limits of your knowledge across a huge range of subjects. The book is divided into 5 parts:
Part 1 presents...
Earth Grids
The Secret Patterns of Gaia's Sacred Sites
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Do ancient maps prove that the planet was surveyed 12,000 years ago? Were the poles once in a different position to where they are today? Is there a secret pattern joining the great sites of antiquity? In this revolutionary little book, ancient sites expert Hugh Newman outlines various theories concerning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Books by the bed are the constant-and ever-changing-companions of avid readers. They're special, different from the tomes of daylight, flirtatious, fun, provocative friends we array within easy reach, our last contacts with the conscious world before we surrender to sleep. Writers are particularly voracious...
Slow Cooker Central Family Favourites
200 new classics the whole family will love
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Real food without the fuss - every time.
When Paulene Christie started Slow Cooker Central in 2012, she wanted to share her passion for slow-cooking with like-minded people online. Fast forward 7 years, and she has more than half a million followers, four bestselling cookbooks, and thirty slow...
by May Agnes Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This collection includes 9 books: The Actress' Daugher, The Baronet's Bride, Kate Danton, The Midnight Queen, Norine's Revenge, Sharing Her Crime, Sir Noel's Heir, A Terrible Secret, and The Unseen Bridegroom. According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was...
by Nicole Brossard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism have been lost to us for years. The Blue Books brings
Celtic Pattern
Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
How do you draw Celtic knotwork? What are the secrets of keys? Are there tricks for drawing Celtic spirals? What do these mysterious patterns actually mean? Who drew them? Where did they come from? In this exquisite pocket book, author and artist Adam Tetlow shows us the practical tricks of the trade...
With Musket & Tomahawk
The West Point?Hudson Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In this third volume of Michael Logusz’s epic study of the Wilderness War of 1777, a sizable British military force, augmented with German and loyalist soldiers, attacks the Northern Army’s southern front in the fall of 1777 in hopes of assisting a much larger British Army that is threatened to...
America at War since 1945
Politics and Diplomacy in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Focusing primarily on politics and foreign policy, America at War since 1945 analyzes America's involvement in its several wars since the end of World War II. The main questions asked are: How did the U.S. become involved in these wars? How were the wars conducted? And how did the U.S. get out of...