Jeff: 3989 books
It's Pull to go Up
A Pilots Tale
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Charlie Gray (Jeff as he was later known ) left school at 14 and was set for a life as a farm worker in the North of Scotland when World War II intervened.
Chance took him into the RAF as a bomber pilot and his luck held though the war and led him on to a successful flying career in British...
Designing with the Mind in Mind
Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from which UI design rules were based. But as the field evolves, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules, but it...
Fifty Years of 60 Minutes
The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
“An illuminating TV show biography” (Kirkus Reviews), the ultimate inside story of 60 Minutes—the program that has tracked and shaped the biggest moments in post-war American history.
From its almost accidental birth in 1968, 60 Minutes has set the standard for broadcast journalism. The...
The Single Best Question You Should Ask on Any Interview
Plus More Than 200 Other Things You Need to Know to Win Interviews and Get Job Offers
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Wouldn't you like to know the best question you can ask as a job hunter and when to ask it? Wouldn't you like know exactly what an interviewer is screening you for without seeing a job description so that you can tailor your answers to what they care about? Edited by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter,...
Showtime
Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—dynasties.
The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over...
by Jeff Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world. The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties...
Acceptance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion....
by Jeff Wagner, Steven Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture. Beginning with the hugely influential mid-1970s efforts of Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a huge tapestry of sounds and styles,...
2pac vs. Biggie
An Illustrated History of Rap's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Hip hop icons and rap innovators, the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur continue to influence, define, and change the genre years after their deaths. Despite the controversies surrounding the murders of Tupac and Biggie, ultimately it’s their art that remains their biggest legacy. The music of Biggie...
All American Horror of the 21st Century
The First Decade (2000-2010)
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
All American Horror of the 21st Century is a compilation of the best short horror fiction published by magazines, anthologies, and websites between 2000 and 2010. These stories deal with “uniquely American” themes and subjects, and are written in an equally unique “American style.” Contributors...
Trainwreck
My Life as an Idoit
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings.
Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment,...
Lennon on Lennon
Conversations with John Lennon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
John Lennon was a highly opinionated and controversial figure with a commanding personality and quick wit. And he made a point of living his adventurous life as openly as possible. Whether he was experimenting with LSD, Transcendental Meditation, primal therapy, macrobiotic diets, or recording techniques,...
by Jeff Chern
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This book is not just a book about my before-during-and-after stand up comedy career. Comedy was just the vehicle. It's about career choices. Life choices. About who believes in you and who doesn’t. About how surprised you are at who does and who doesn’t! It’s about decisions. Whose advice do...
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog
In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s,...