Adam: 4614 books
Daring Democracy
Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.
Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary...
The Unquiet Ghost
Russians Remember Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless...
Aidsafari
A Memoir of My Journey with Aids
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
With searing honesty, tender prose and outrageous humour, Adam Levin takes us through the daily trials of living with Aids, travelling from promiscuity and dangerous denial, through the terrors of imminent mortality, to face the realities of his disease. But this book’s power lies not only in its...
by Adam Warner
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Volatility is one of the defining characteristics of today’s global markets. As a result, many traders are seeking better ways to profit from their bets on shifting volatility. Once, the primary way to trade volatility was to buy and sell standard calls and puts. Then, the world discovered VIX,...
The Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive...
Unfair
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
"A law professor sounds an explosive alarm on the hidden unfairness of our legal system." —Kirkus Reviews, starred
A child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime he did not commit; a jury acquits...
by Adam Embry
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
“An Honest, Well-Experienced Heart” introduces us to the life and writings of Puritan preacher and author John Flavel (16271691). In his brief, introductory biography, Adam Embry discusses Flavel’s background, ministry, and theology of keeping the heart, which, for Flavel, “is the great business...
by Adam Sifre
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
It was a dark and stormy night. Earlier, it was partly cloudy, but this isn't a story about the weather, or anything else as interesting. In fact, it's not a story at all. It's a bunch of stories. A bunch of short stories.You would think that, based on this pitch, my shorts wold...
by Rev'd Lawrie Adam
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Lawrie Adam, son of a Scottish coal miner, born on the brink of WWII, showed the talent and drive to succeed professionally in the world of entertainment. He worked as a salesman in a drapery store until his ability with his accordion resulted in him winning an appearance on a national TV talent show,...
by Adam Frank
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.
Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...
Beyond the Crossroads
The Devil and the Blues Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange...
Book of Rhymes
The Poetics of Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The definitive account of rap and hip hop as forms of American poetry
"Bradley is a visionary critic, skillful and wise.... Book of Rhymes is a tour de force, brilliantly renovating hip hop criticism as [lit] rescues the forgotten vanguard of American poetry." --Henry Louis Gates,...
Being Mr. Skin
20 Years of Nip Slips, Cheek Peeks, and Fast-Forwarding to the Good Parts
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
You’ve heard Mr. Skin on The Howard Stern Show. You’ve seen his website in the blockbuster comedy Knocked Up. Maybe you’ve spent some time poking around on MrSkin.com, the world’s #1 resource for celebrity nudity. Now, Jim McBride—“Mr. Skin” himself—tells his story in uproarious, SKINtastic...
This Is Not A Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...