Alex: 4765 books
Futebol
Soccer, The Brazilian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A new and updated edition of bestselling author Alex Bellos's classic book on soccer, unforgettably capturing the game at the heart of the Brazilian national identity.
Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians...
First Dollars
Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
MAKING MILLIONS — BOLD ABORIGINAL ENTREPRENEURS — KIM BAIRD, CLARENCE LOUIE, TEWANEE JOSEPH, MANNY JULES — ARE REINVENTING CANADA’S ECONOMY
A growing number of aboriginal leaders – especially those blessed by geography – are unlocking the value of their lands in order...
Jackals
The Stench of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
An in-depth look into contemporary fascist and far-right extremist activity Conservatives who obsess about the threat of Muslim extremism are usually mute as regards the murderous chaos instigated by far-right extremists. In Jackals: The Stench of Fascism, journalist and author Alex Constantine explores...
Charlie and the Angels
The Outlaws, the Hells Angels and the Sixty Years War
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club's story is told here for the first time, by criminal underworld author and former infiltrator Alex Caine. They are the original biker gang, and their sixty years of war with the Hells Angels is the stuff of legend.
Right down to their signature logo (a skull known...
Songlab
A Songwriting Playbook for Teens
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Created exclusively with and for teen musicians, this hands-on, step-by-step program uses insight, enthusiasm, and humor to teach teens how to brainstorm ideas, craft effective lyrics, and put those lyrics to music.
An award-winning and Billboard-charting songwriter and teacher, Alex Forbes...
The School of Hard Knox
The Autobiography of Archie Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The School of Hard Knox chronicles the life and career of one of the most admired and respected coaches ever to grace Scottish football, Archie Knox.After his early days at Forfar Athletic, Archie became a key ally for Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen and Manchester United. Together they won the Scottish...
by Alex Dimitrov
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.”-Los Angeles Review of Books
Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.”-Brenda Shaughnessy
Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the sincerities that other sorts of poets reject or obscure.”-Publishers Weekly
Together...
Befriend and Betray
Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.
Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in...
The First Wave
The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
“Meet the assaulters: Pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers...
The Grapes of Math
How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician...
by Alex Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Throw another yule log on the fire and twist that final menorah lightbulb! Author and humorist Alex Bernstein presents a collection of quirky, bittersweet tales calculated to ruin even the most blessed festivities. No matter which holidays you celebrate, these 10 stories give new meaning to the idea...
by Alex Shishin
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots.
One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on...
by J.T. Ellison, Alex Kava, Erica Spindler
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The second exciting collaboration from Erica Spindler, Alex Kava and J.T. Ellison. One terrifying storm; three thrilling tales. They call it an Alberta Clipper – a massive storm system that rides the jet stream southward from Canada and across the United States. It’s early October, and...
by Alex O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
If William Shakespeare was alive today he would be writing vampire fiction. But he isn’t, so Alex O’Connell saw the gap in the market and jumped in without thinking…
A serial killer is at large on the squalid streets of Victorian London. He strikes only at night, causing horrendous mutilation...