Eric: 6009 books
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
When the first television was demonstrated in 1927, a headline in The New York Times read, “Like a Photo Come to Life.” It was a momentous occasion. But the power of television wasn’t fully harnessed until the 1950s, when the medium was, as Eric Burns says, “At its most preoccupying, its most...
The 24-Hour Genius
Unlocking Your Brain's Potential with Strategic All-Nighters
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
If a year of study or work is a competitive marathon, all-nighters are often the sprints in which certain runners break away from the pack. Tap into your genius and achieve greater success by learning to strategically pull an all-nighter.
Whether fine-tuning a business plan or trying...
by Eric Ries
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Laat je inspireren door de Lean Startup. Het idee van de Lean Startup is uitgegroeid tot een wereldwijde beweging. Ondernemers en bedrijven ontwikkelen en lanceren er op succesvolle wijze nieuwe producten mee. De aanpak, waarin het Lean-denken wordt toegepast op het proces van innovatie, maakt het...
by Eric Frederick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than as a composer. But whether...
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. **
As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon’s life; but for the...
by Eric Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
In The Creative Life, Eric Butterworth brings his spiritual insight to a unique exploration of the creative process. Within every person, he says, is hidden genius to which we give expression through commitment, discipline, and the enthusiasm that works with passion. Powerful and resonating with meaning, The Creative Life is sure to be a classic work of spirituality for years to come.
Patti Smith
America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Nicknamed the “Godmother of Punk,” Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a strong-willed woman in the mainstream rock community by breaking not only the fragile glass ceiling,...
The Bowery
A History of Grit, Graft and Grandeur
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Originally a Lenape trail running the length of Manhattan Island, the Bowery has become one of the most notorious thoroughfares in America. Developed in stages by the Dutch, British and then Americans, this stretch of street has continually risen from its own ashes, interminably experiencing periods...
by Eric Broug
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Learn how to draw seven geometric star patterns from around the Islamic world, using only a pencil, straight edge, and a pair of compasses. Patterns featured are from Baghdad, Fes, Cairo, Konya, Delhi and Damascus. Suitable for ages 9 and up. No calculations are necessary.The least complicated way...
Rethinking Depression
How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In this provocative and pathbreaking distillation of a career spent working with individuals seeking help with mood and motivation, Eric Maisel reveals the implications of one of the most dramatic cultural shifts of our time. In recent decades, much of the unhappiness inherent in the human condition...
A Curious Madness
An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
From an “illuminating and entertaining” (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men at the Tokyo war crimes trial that followed World War II: a Japanese nationalist charged with war crimes and the American doctor assigned to determine his sanity—and...
by Eric Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Although usually associated with the 1920s and the '30s, in fact the Art Deco style had begun to emerge in France prior to the advent of the First World War. But it was during the interwar years that the style, reaching full maturity, was adopted by the international elite as the perfect expression...
by ERIC JACKSON PERRIN
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
D’ou venez-vous? Qui êtes-vous? Où allez-vous? Pourquoi vous êtes là? Quelle est votre mission de vie ? Saviez-vous qu’en tant qu’être humain créé par "la Source de toute Vie", vous êtes comme un « Diamant » qui demande à briller ? Mais pour faire briller le Diamant que...
Infamous Scribblers
The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renonwned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams-the leading journalists among the Founding Fathers; of George...