Barry: 2877 books
The King's Jester
The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures. Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno “The...
Unmaking War, Remaking Men
How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Kathleen Barry answers the perennial question: Is war inevitable? with an emphatic "no." She explores soldiers' experiences through a politics of empathy and reveals how men’s lives are made expendable for combat in which they suffer loss of their own souls. She then probes the psychopathy that marks...
Fighter Boy
Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The Battle of Britain memoir of Hurricane pilot Barry Sutton, DFC. At twenty-three years of age, Barry Sutton had experienced more than the average person experiences in a lifetime. This book, based on a diary he kept during the Battle of Britain, covers September 1939 to September 1940 during which...
by Sebastian Barry
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Whistling Psyche
A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion for reform, but only one - Miss Nightingale - has been...
Without Trace – Ireland’s Missing
Profiling the Disappearances of Men, Women and Children in Ireland since 1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Without Trace is an informative and heart-stopping read by Barry Cummins, the bestselling author of Missing, back with more cases of Ireland’s disappeared — men, women and children who have vanished without trace while going about their normal lives.
What happened to two young boys who...
by Dave Barry
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
"Just the ticket for the '90s."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
If you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put...
Speculations on German History
Culture and the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what "Germany" would amount to geopolitically, while German intellectuals...
Culture and Equality
An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public policy respond to this diversity? In this important new work, Brian Barry challenges the currently orthodox answer and develops...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Stories that “celebrate the web of nature that holds the world together” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Of Wolves and Men (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Barry Lopez, the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams, has written eloquently on what it means to be human,...
by Barry Wachs
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Where has science and faith gone wrong? What has brought us to religious and scientific conflict? Why has one faith or another taken on the role of fanatically converting the earths population and at what expense? When we die, what can we expect from a scientific view as opposed to a faith-based view...
by Elizabeth Barry, Lynn Barry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A first person account of a lost battle with Cancer. Elizabeth Barry's personal hand written journals describe her physical and emotional trials before and during her Lymphoma diagnosis and treatment. The book chronicles her thoughts, feelings and experiences in an unedited format. This is not the story...
Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious...
About This Life
Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man.
With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez...
by Barry Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Master hair stylist Barry Fletcher is in a unique position. Women and men from all walks of life have been confiding in him for years. Too often when we have relational issues, we seek counsel from those without relevant insight. Women talk to their girlfriends; men talk to the fellas. Wouldn't it...