Dominic: 570 books
by Dominic Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2010
"A showcase for Green's bone-dry satire and deadpan humour ... Green's agile imagination constantly wrong-foots the reader. A delight."
-Peter Ingham, The Telegraph
"The work of a talented writer having lots of very smart fun"
-- S F Winser, Booksquawk.com
Smallworld...
Rogue Skies
A Limited Edition Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2019
The skies have gone rogue. Space can’t be tamed. And magic is a law unto itself.
Transport yourself to new worlds where dark magic clashes with witty witches, diabolic demons, feisty fae, and sexy shifters. Or travel through time and space with cosmic spies, space thieves, and telepathic...
Clockwork Phantom
A Steampunk Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Everyone wears a mask. But the deadliest secrets hide in plain sight.
Marie St. Jean’s supreme acting talent comes with a price: Every spellbinding performance extracts a piece of her soul. When she reluctantly steps into a role abandoned by another leading lady, she encounters the ghostly...
Smoke in the Lanes
Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close...
Slaughterhouse
Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
From the minute it opened—on Christmas Day in 1865—it was Chicago’s must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look...
FDR and the Spanish Civil War
Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America’s rise to global power, and the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt’s...
Talent Wins
The New Playbook for Putting People First
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent--and HR
Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century.
Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments,...
by Dominic McIver Lopes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that...
We'll Have Manhattan
The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook and working together on over 40 shows before Hart's death. With hit after hit on both Broadway and the West End, they produced many of the celebrated...
Loverly
The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard Bernstein, My Fair Lady not only enjoyed critical success similar to that of its rivals but...
Brainwash
The Secret History of Mind Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber?
How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda?
With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, the U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and the British Intelligence Corps, acclaimed journalist Dominic Streatfeild traces...
by Dominic Selwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The stakes don’t get any higher...
When the Turin Shroud is stolen in a violent assault, archaeologist and former spy Ava Curzon is plunged into a desperate struggle against the leader of an apocalyptic Russian cult
Recruited by the UK’s clandestine MI13 intelligence agency – and aided...
The Last Week
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events...
The First Paul
Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to culture...