St Martin S Griffin imprint: 2039 books
Shimmering Images
A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Rich, funny, and moving personal narratives depend on a few key moments in time to anchor the story and give it impact. Shimmering Images teaches the aspiring memoirist how to locate key memories using Lisa's technique for finding, linking, and fleshing out those vibrant recollections of important...
Hugo Chávez
Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Audacious, provocative, and bombastic, few world politicians are as colorful as Hugo Chávez, now making international news for his plans to nationalize U.S. owned businesses and his bold opposition to Washington's economic and trade policies. As Venezuela gains importance as the fifth largest oil...
The Bill McKibben Reader
Pieces from an Active Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking...
by Kristin Henson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A book of truly obscene and offensive insults, sex terms, and pop culture phrases translated into American Sign Language-from the YouTube sensation with more than 2 million views and counting
Have you ever been in a noisy bar and wanted to insult or pick up someone? Now you can say:
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You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero!
Book One in the Just Make a Choice! Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Why Do All the Nice Girls End Up Getting Kidnapped and Held for Ransom?
In this book, YOU, the reader, are a thirtysomething part-time actor/full-time waiter suddenly caught up in a kidnapping. Julia, the girl you went out with last night, has been TAKEN HOSTAGE. What will you do? Will you...
You Should Really Write a Book
How to Write, Sell, and Market Your Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Even if you don't happen to be a celebrity, this book will teach you methods for striking publishing gold—conceptualizing, selling, and marketing a memoir—while dealing with the complicated emotions that arise during the creation of your work.
If you've ever been told that "You should...
by M. M. Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Sun in the Morning is the first volume of autobiography by the beloved British author M. M. Kaye. It traces the author's early life in India and later adolescence in England. As The Guardian wrote, "No romance in the novels of M.M. Kaye... could equal her love for India."
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by Osho
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Explore the emotional sensations of the many facets of love and affection that bring people together with one of the twentieth century’s greatest spiritual teachers.
One of the most important life events is falling in love, yet we never learn about it in school. Societies and religions force...
How to Feel Manly in a Minivan
The Desperate Dad's Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
For every guy who has wondered how he could possibly become a dad while preserving any masculinity, sanity or dignity, this practical and hilarious guide will teach you
HOW TO FEEL MANLY IN A MINIVAN
...and many other essential self-preservation techniques for new dads
Men are ill equipped...
Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder
What Happened to the Sense of Wonder I Felt as a Child?
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
One of the greatest spiritual teachers of the twentieth century encourages you to embrace your childlike curiosity and reconnect it to your adult sensibilities.
Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder: What Happened to the Sense of Wonder I Felt as a Child? looks to each person’s last state of innocence—childhood—to...
Yoga
The Science of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
In Yoga: The Science of the Soul, one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the twentieth century presents the history and philosophy of this timeless health practice.
Much of what is known as yoga today emphasizes physical postures and exercises to increase flexibility and help relaxation....
Belief, Doubt, and Fanaticism
Is It Essential to Have Something to Believe In?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
One of the greatest spiritual teachers of the twentieth century addresses the conflicts that arise between people with opposing views and the dangers of losing your individual identity in your desire to belong to a group with shared values.
In Belief, Doubt, and Fanaticism: Is It Essential...
FDR and His Enemies
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Not since the Civil War was America so riven by conflict as it was during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. His bold initiatives and his willingness to break historic precedent in handling the Great Depression and the coming of World War II were challenged by giant figures of the era, powerful public...
The Secret War Against the Jews
How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the Jews reveals as much about political corruption inside Western intelligence as it does about Israel. Using thousands of previously top-secret documents and interviews...