Berger: 852 books
by Albert Einstein, Neil Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history.
In this fascinating collection of articles and speeches, Albert Einstein reflects not only on the scientific method at work in his own theoretical...
Welcome to the Real World
Finding Your Place, Perfecting Your Work, and Turning Your Job into Your Dream Career
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The essential book every workplace novice needs—a smart, practical, and fun guide to help them navigate the minefield of personalities, learn to work with their boss, identify priorities, and ultimately kick butt at their first job.
It’s a challenging time to be young and new in the workplace....
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Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when John Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Léger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial...
12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery
Avoiding Relapse through Self-Awareness and Right Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Concise advice on hunting down the personal culprits that sabotage sobriety and personal happiness.
To grow in recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there...
12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone
Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
The author of the classic 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery offers a fresh list of "smart" things to do to attain and sustain emotional sobriety.
Whether it's called "dry drunk" or "white knuckle sobriety," it's that stage in recovery when we realize that "putting the plug in the jug"...
12 More Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery
Navigating Common Pitfalls on Your Sobriety Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book gives you the tools you need to work through twelve pitfalls that you are likely to encounter on your path to long-term recovery. Whether you are facing relapse, learning to overcoming complacency, or take responsibility for your feelings and actions, this book will equip you to overcome...
The Last Laugh
The World of Stand-Up Comics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2000
The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy superstars. Phil Berger shows how styles and trends in standup have changed over the past fifty years,...
Wagner Without Fear
Learning to Love--and Even Enjoy--Opera's Most Demanding Genius
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to? Does your mate accuse you of having a Tannhäuser complex? If you're baffled by the behavior of Wagner...
Nowhere
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Detective Russel Wren takes a case in what just might be the oddest country on earth
A phone call warning of a bomb threat is all Detective Russel Wren needs to get out the door. He makes it to the next block before an enormous explosion destroys his entire building. Without his Manhattan office,...
by Kay Berger
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
The Kill Order by Kay Berger
I had a voice in my head telling me that I wasn’t good enough at anything. I wasn’t good enough as a human being. I was too fat at 130 pounds. I was too smart and no one likes a smart girl. Repeatedly, this tape played and I couldn’t...
by Sylvia Berger
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Having spent over half a century on this intriguing and, sometimes, challenging planet, I have witnessed many technological and societal changes. I have seen fashions come and go...and come again...witnessed the advent of computers and mobile phones.I’ve watched record albums shrink into little...
The Sense of Power
Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation. This influential book demonstrated that the movement – which held that Canada could only become a great nation within the British...