Chris: 8154 books
Pittsburgh Dad
Everything Your Dad Has Said to You
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
When Pittsburgh Dad debuted on YouTube, creators Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton little suspected their sitcom would receive more than sixteen million views and turn their blue-collar everyman into a nationally known figure. Illustrated with hilarious black-and-white photos, Pittsburgh Dad shares the...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and...
The Concise Guide to Sounding Smart at Parties
An Irreverent Compendium of Must-Know Info from Sputnik to Smallpox and Marie Curie to Mao
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Banish awkward silences, boring weather talk, or (worst of all) the embarrassing conversation gaff with this pithy, hilarious guide to effortless party banter.
We’ve all been there. You’re at a party, surrounded by the most important people in your life. You’re cool. You’re casual....
Fifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales
Expert Fly Anglers Share Stories from the Sea and Stream
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
For fishermen, the only thing more fun than catching fish are the stories they tell about those fish . . . and the ones that got away. Nobody knows that better than Chris Santella, author of the best-selling Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die. For his latest homage to anglers, Santella invited...
When Atheism Becomes Religion
America's New Fundamentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.
Chris...
by Chris Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Scotland is a country brimful of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will provide a Scots word. In Scottish Wildlife, Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries will introduce...
Dirty Kids
Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
"An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." —Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of Man
At age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads...
To Benin and Back
Short Stories, Essays, and Reflections About Life in Benin as a Peace Corps Volunteer and the Subsequent Readjustment Process.
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Just out of college seeking the adventure of his life and an opportunity to do good, Chris Starace joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Benin, West Africa for two years from 1995 to 1997. The challenge was great, and he was pushed to the limit in adapting to a starkly different culture while living...
Taking Charge
Your future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Since the 1990s, individuals have been told that, "it is up to you to manage your own career". Most of us think we have managed our career, or have we? Most of us follow a 'Line of least resistance' in our career choices, and are easily fooled by the milestones along our career. Frequently self-seducing...
by Chris Tharp
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Thousands of young adults pass through South Korea each year, teaching English in private schools that together make up one of the country's largest industries. Korea, long isolated by culture and geography, with a complex language and set of social mores, can be a difficult place to call home....
by Chris Garson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Bert had fallen in love with Connie the moment their eyes met in Macroeconomic Theory. First coffee, then breakfast, then a lifetime together.
When Talbot showed up with his plaid arm tight on Connie, Bert was patient. Bert could keep a secret.
A better person wouldn't have gone to the wedding. Bert couldn't stay away.
Other People's Lives
The History of a London Lot
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their...
Good Morning, Mr Sarra
My Life Working for a Stronger, Smarter Future for Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The remarkable true story of one man’s fight to turn the tide of low expectations, this account follows educator Chris Sarra from his humble beginnings in a large Italian-Aboriginal family to his triumphant achievements, including becoming Queensland's Australian of the Year, the subject of ABC's...
by Chris Impey
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
“Expansive and enlightening. . . . Impey packs his prose with wonderful anecdotes and weird factoids.”—New York Times Book Review
Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind...