Roger: 3830 books
Pink Billionaire 1
Pink Billionaire, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Jim Martin helps a beaten up kidnap victim but the cops think he did it. Lawyer Sally comes to his aid.Jim is making enough on the internet to quit his job and be a full-time adventurer. He arranges to meet Sally, an old girlfriend, but before this can happen he gets into trouble with the cops....
The Edge
The War against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Roger Pielke reveals how sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge.Both entertaining and thought-provoking, THE EDGE not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that the spirit of sport” can survive in today’s...
by Roger D. Blair
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Sports Economics, the most comprehensive textbook in the field by celebrated economist Roger D. Blair, focuses primarily on the business and economics aspects of major professional sports and the NCAA. It employs the basic principles of economics to address issues such as the organization of leagues,...
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted...
The Bush Crime Family
The Inside Story of an American Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
"This book is very tough." - President Donald Trump
The Bush Crime Family smashes through the layers of lies and secrecy that have surrounded and protected our country’s most successful political dynasty for nearly two centuries. New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone lashes out with...
Death-Devoted Heart:Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music,...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Roger Ebert is a name synonymous with the movies. In Ebert’s Bests, he takes readers through the journey of how he became a film critic, from his days at a student-run cinema club to his rise as a television commentator in At the Movies and Siskel & Ebert. Recounting the influence of French...
by Roger Sales
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England.
Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well...
Anthony Burgess
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep."
He was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression...
by Roger Winter
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
This new edition draws on Roger Winters' considerable experience from several years of classroom instruction as well as professional work, culminating in a thoroughly revised introduction to the elements and domains of drawing. More attention is given to the visual ideas of drawing in this edition,...
The Mersey Sound
Restored 50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The...
The Contemporaries
Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemingly...
My Riot
Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
“Miret’s captivating and harrowing, no-holds-barred account of a life lived in the trenches . . . You don’t have to be a major Agnostic Front fan to get maximum enjoyment out of this book. . . . A compelling read.” ―Classic Rock Revisited
"Miret’s memorable, affecting stories...
Giacomo Puccini
A Discography
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo...