Gary: 4892 books
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that serves as a basis for the upcoming series Waco.
In Stalling for Time, the FBI’s chief hostage negotiator takes readers on a harrowing tour...
The Carry Home
Lessons from the American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
An award-winning “big-hearted soul-searching memoir about . . . a man looking to nature for answers after the death of his beloved wife” (Los Angeles Times).
In 2005, “ever-evocative nature writer Gary Ferguson” lost his wife Jane in tragic canoeing accident on the Kopka River in northern...
Men to Boys
The Making of Modern Immaturity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character-the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career...
by Gary Shail
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
I was first introduced to this larger than life character back in 1979, albeit through a projector onto the silver screen, Quadrophenia, the film that launched a 1000 faces. 18 years later, I would finally meet this totally outrageous person who became one of my closest friends, lush, side kick, partner...
Bending Toward Justice
The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer...
Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic...
by Gary Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Various poems and songs about the current age we live in, plus a few other things...
by Abram N. Shulsky; Gary J. Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insiders guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such...
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published...
You Kiss by th' Book
New Poems from Shakespeare's Line
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse. Drawing on moments from the sonnets, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and others, Soto...
Whitman
The Mystic Poets
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Discover How Whitmans Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own
Whitmans collected poems and prose are not an object or icon to be gazed upon or revered but a transparency we look through to see ourselves with greater clarity, excitement, and meaning. They wake us up to our potential,...
by Gary Haymes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Biographies of people of consequence who did unusual activities that changed world history or added to human knowledge. This book is ever expanding:Barack Obama,Benazir Bhutto,Elvis Presley,Harriet Tubman,Indias Gandhi,Karl Marx,Mikhail Gorvbachev,Muhammad Osma Bin Laden, Reverend Jim Jones,Terry...
by Gary Lachman, Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded....
Jung the Mystic
The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
This bold, compact new biography of Carl Jung fills a gap in our understanding of the pioneering psychiatrist by focusing on the occult and mystical dimension of Jung's life and work, a critical but frequently misunderstood facet of his career.
Although he is often called the "founding...