Hurling is Ireland’s national game – a source of fascination and pride, even to people who have never played it. Ciarán Murphy, a lifelong club footballer, used to be one of those people. Then he spent a summer trying to play hurli...Loe edasi...
The contract for this ms. has been canceled at the request of the author, 3/14/2023. A teacher and a lawyer before he was a player and a manager, Branch Rickey is best known for his pivotal role in breaking baseballs color line by signin...Loe edasi...
Krishnaswami Alladi, George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt, Frank Garvan, Ken Ono, Peter Paule, S. Ole Warnaar, Ae Ja Yee
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031501463)
This authoritative volume covers aspects of the life and enduring mathematical research of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in the late 19th century, Ramanujan had almost no formal training in pure mathematics. This iconic figure made extraordinary contr...Loe edasi...
Celebrate the career of heavy metals beloved Teutonic terrors, in this updated version of the first book ever on the band in any language....Loe edasi...
Balancing a devotion to activism with personal relationships can be incredibly difficult. Kitty Stryker shares her experience as an activist, street medic, and relationship educator to help others pursue the important work while maintaining healthy r...Loe edasi...
A sequel to the authors critically acclaimed Delphinium title, One of These Things First, The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls is a poison-pen, love letter to the end of an eraManhattan during the decadent, late 1970s. Picking...Loe edasi...
Magnificent ROBERT MACFARLANE Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant. Author of The Snow Leopard, co-fou...Loe edasi...
A fun, charming romp through the history of seventeen great writers and the cats who captured their hearts. Throughout history, cats and writers have banded together in a magical combination of comfort, companionship, and inspiration...Loe edasi...
The latest instalment in the bestselling All The Songs series, this definitive book reveals the complete story behind every track Beyoncé has ever released....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538765579)
Drew Nieporent has been a staple of the New York dining scene for decades, establishing a host of iconic restaurants like Nobu, Tribeca Grill, and Montrachet. But his career started from much more humble beginnings—the grill at the local McDonald’s....Loe edasi...
My mother asked me several times to write a book about she and some of her ancestors that lived off the land. I always said I couldnt write a book. Ten years after her death, i found a box of her things and a story she had written about herself. I k...Loe edasi...
The real story behind Dunnes Stores, the most quintessentially Irish shop of all, and the family drama behind it This is the story of the extraordinary family behind one of Irelands most famous businesses, Dunnes Stores, over three gener...Loe edasi...
Experience the greatest races in F1 history with this official, lavishly illustrated Formula 1 book Spanning more than 70 years of incredible grand prix action, Formula 1: The Greatest Races delves into the adrenaline-fuelled...Loe edasi...
At the age of 16, a boy amongst men, Andy Farrell made his first-team debut for Wigan Warriors – and became a father for the first time. At 18, he won his first senior international cap. At 21, he won his first Man of Steel Award for the Super...Loe edasi...
As the autumn nights draw in, join Polly Atkin in a nocturnal love song to the owls that surround her Lake District home a stunning meditation on learning to listen in a world full of noise....Loe edasi...
I was born on Wednesday, the nineteenth of June, 1861. It was a few days before the full of the moon. I found myself in a village. I had some slight notions of the morning sun and of my parents. That is as much as I can recall of my baby days. ...Loe edasi...
In William Law’s new book Shadows & Light, the reader is taken on a journey following Law and his partner Mark Sobel, a writer and a filmmaker, while they try to unravel the mystery of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination. The reader will see t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Sutherland House Inc., ISBN-13: 9781998365470)
“The best Canadian political diary that exists” – John English, author, The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.Jim Coutts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau from 1975 to 1981, was one o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: OR Books, ISBN-13: 9781682196380)
A Seat at the Table is the story of the founding of Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C.–based restaurant that has become a celebrated hub for political activism. Named in honor of Langston Hughes, who worked as a busboy while writing...Loe edasi...
The book You Only Live Twice takes readers on a deeply personal journey through the life of its author, navigating the challenges and triumphs of living as a transgender individual. Growing up in the tight-knit communities of West Virginia and Kentuc...Loe edasi...
What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als exploreswith breath taking originalitythe role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary char...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668052150)
A powerful memoir revealing the pressures, joys, and traumas of witnessing history up close and personal, from one of Canada’s most prominent and decorated foreign correspondents.Brian Stewart is a trusted voice who brought stories of...Loe edasi...
Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. ( ...) A book Ive been waiting my whole life to read. Tommy Orange, author of There There As an infant, Julian Brave NoiseCats father was found abandoned in a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Center Street, ISBN-13: 9781546007876)
An unfiltered and outrageously funny commentary on the threats to free speech in America from the legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneider’s childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents of mixe...Loe edasi...
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING, LIFE-CHANGING PHENOMENON SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows RAYNOR WINN Every bit as...Loe edasi...
Quintessentially indispensable … brimming with generosity and love of life. I want to share this book with everyone I love and those I don’t … in the conviction that Home will make them NICER by association Juliet Nic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781914979323)
In this new volume, Peter Hennessy brings together selected journalism, unpublished lectures and new writing alongside personal recollections and reflections on his time observing post-war Britain, how it is governed and those who do the governing. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783548)
This book explores the life of Newport Gardner, a West African who was enslaved and sent to Newport, Rhode Island. In the post-Revolutionary years, he attained his freedom and became a major Black community leader-- Provided by publisher. ...Loe edasi...
New paperback edition - The fascinating hidden history of the British royal familys nearly men - those who had been destined for the throne, but never made it. Mantle explores the story behind these would-be-kings, showing how the question of succe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487564476)
Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, and poverty. Following men abandoned a...Loe edasi...
Sari: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783449)
This book describes the life and work of Lev Alexandrovich Tikhomirov (1852-1923), both as a leading revolutionary implicated in the assassination of Alexander II, and following a radical change in his outlook as a defender of the principle of autoc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496859563)
Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular co...Loe edasi...
