Alex: 4765 books

Guidelines on the road to reemployment. Thoughts on making the best of the opportunity -- yes, opportunity -- provided by being out of work and seeking the way to rejoin the employed in a more rewarding position.

Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion of NATO to its very borders....

When one world brushes another, asking the right question can be magic... "Shall We Gather" is an original short story by Alex Bledsoe, whose Tufa novels--beginning with the acclaimed The Hum and the Shiver--chronicle the quiet, mysterious people of unknown origin living in the Smoky...

What is wrong with the news? To answer this dismaying question, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones explores how the epochal changes sweeping the media have eroded the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones...

"If one stopped to consider the vast network of coincidences that make up a life, he thinks, taking a packet of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, it would be enough to drive one mad." The Artist waits, and smokes, and dread builds. Alex Preston takes us behind the public facade of dictatorship...

"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves." ---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done-but they are never done....

This is the book that Alex Boraine never wanted to write. As a native South African and a witness to the worst years of apartheid, he has known many of the leaders of the African National Congress in exile. He shared the jubilation of millions of South Africans when the ANC won the first democratic...

An introduction to the history of British hip-hop as it finally escapes its reputation as the poor cousin of the American variant with a succession of hugely successful releases by the new stars of 'grime'. Alex Ogg, a notable author in this field having previously written The Hip Hop Years (and been...

The Design Museum brings you fifty bicycles that changed the world we live in! The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology....

Charlie Morell, a court-appointed private investigator, is compelled to take on the case of two Cuban "marielitos" - followers of the voodoo-like santería cult - accused of a particularly vicious massacre in a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store. But Charlie is himself Cuban, hiding in the City of Angels away from his own guilty secrets - just another faceless detective.

To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades. It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such...

Good little instruction booklet for beginner artists, and artists who have been away from painting for a while. Tips and advice are provided that will put you a few steps ahead of the game. Plain hints are provided to help make your acrylic paintings look more life like. Many more painting nuggets, help you to become a accomplished painter.

Despite releasing records only on independent labels and receiving virtually no radio play, Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their sound was inventive and tetchy, and front man Jello Biafra’s lyrics were incisive and...

The Ugly One in the Middle is Alex Stan Campbell's story of the fifty-year search for two people; His birth mother, and the angelic, sensual woman of his dreams. Kind of romantic, right? But, wait. There's humor, mystery and intrigue. Just before Stan's sixteenth birthday, his Aunt Patsy let it slip...