Flynn: 1172 books
What Is Intelligence?
Beyond the Flynn Effect
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
The 'Flynn effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century. Does it mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Does it suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn is finally ready to give his own views....
Americans in British Literature, 1770–1832
A Breed Apart
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
American independence was inevitable by 1780, but British writers spent the several decades following the American Revolution transforming their former colonists into something other than estranged British subjects. Christopher Flynn's engaging and timely book systematically examines for the first...
by Chris Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Ben and his sidekick, Mikey, work the Target Ball stand in a ramshackle carnival travelling up the east coast. Ben is trying to put his time in the army behind him and make some money. Mikey - AKA Mekong Delta, Fremantle's answer to Fifty...
Does your Family Make You Smarter?
Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals over the last 65 years, and shows that family...
The Field of Fight
How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The Instant New York Times Bestseller.
A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book...
The Torchlight List
Around the World in 200 Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In today’s world it seems that everywhere we turn we are saturated with book recommendations from talk shows, magazines, radio shows, friends, and top ten lists. But which books are really the best, and what effects do the books we read have on our intelligence? The Torchlight List has the answers....
by Nick Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
A literary tour de force about the making of a film and representation from a master of the memoir form.
For Nick Flynn, that game we all play—the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game—has been resolved. The Reenactments chronicles the surreal experience of being on set during...
by John Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An E-book re-issue of a collection originally published in June, 1997 by E. Mellon Press. In 1998, it earned the Peace Corp's annual award for best poetry book by a former volunteer. Forrest Gander described the poems as "not absurdly modern, but they take the risk of articulating a serious moral...
Custom Nation
Why Customization Is the Future of Business and How to Profit From It
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Smart brands such as Chipotle, Zazzle, Nike, and Pandora are ditching the outdated 20th century model of a one-size-fits-all approach to providing products and services. From a Netflix movie night to a marriage courtesy of eHarmony, customization is changing every corner of American life and business.
The...
by Gillian Flynn
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2013
No pierdas el tren. Perdida es tu próxima parada.
El libro que se ha convertido en un referente del thriller psicológico contemporáneo.
En un caluroso día de verano, Amy y Nick se disponen a celebrar su quinto aniversario de bodas en North Carthage, a orillas del río Mississippi. Pero...
Vince Flynn Collectors' Edition #4
Extreme Measures, Pursuit of Honor, and American Assassin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
In this special collectors’ edition, relive the action in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Tmes bestselling political thrillers: Extreme Measures, Pursuit of Honor, and American Assassin.
Extreme Measures
In the secretive world where fearless men and women wage a daily covert war, the CIA...
Swallow the Ocean
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
An “extraordinary” memoir of growing up in 1970s San Francisco with a paranoid schizophrenic mother (Booklist, starred review).
When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn’t long, however, before Sally’s fun-loving...
Gillian Flynn 3-in-1-bundel
de bestsellers Gone girl, Dark places en Teerbemind in een bundel
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Dark Places
Libby Day is zeven toen haar moeder en twee zusjes worden vermoord. Libby weet het huis te ontvluchten, de ijskoude januarinacht in, en overleeft. Ze getuigt tegen haar broer Ben, die voor de slachtpartij wordt veroordeeld.
Vijfentwintig jaar later is een genootschap ervan overtuigd dat...
Vince Flynn Collectors' Edition #2
Separation of Power, Executive Power, and Memorial Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
In this special collectors’ edition, relive the action in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Tmes bestselling political thrillers: Separation of Power, Executive Power, and Memorial Day.
Separation of Power
Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy...