Forbes: 463 books
The Utility of Boredom
Baseball Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A collection of essays for ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. It’s a sport that shows us what a human being might be capable of, with extreme dedication—whether we're...
Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
According to critics of his time, Bert Williams was the Greatest Comedian on the American Stage.” A black Bahamian immigrant, Williams made his start as a barker advertising the rough-and-tumble medicine shows” that dotted the Wild West at the end of the nineteenth century. Not long after...
Help for Billy
A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Children in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
"Help for Billy" is a pragmatic manual to help guide families and educators who are struggling with traumatized children. Based on the concept of the neuroscience of emotions and behavior, Heather Forbes provides detailed, comprehensive, and logical strategies for teachers and parents. This easy to read...
by Graham Forbes Author
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Graham Forbes loved to play guitar, whether it was with local rock groups pillaging village halls or on the big stages of the world with the Incredible String Band. But, like so many others, he enjoyed the gigs, groupies and booze too much. At 27, he found himself back in Glasgow, ears ringing, scratching...
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 White Nationalist Skinhead Movement
UK & USA, 1979 - 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
When Feral House first published the award-winning Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, little was known about the "black metal" genre of music, or how many of its members were involved in the murder of citizens, the torching of churches, or its link to Fascist...
by Mike Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Louis Armstrong was and is one of the most famous names in Jazz music and in his later years he was known as much an entertainer and celebrity as a trumpet master and singer. For more than the last two decades of his life he led his All Stars band in which many of the outstanding players of the era supported...
by JD Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This short story details Hector’s unflattering demise and subjugation. When he realizes that taking the opportunist way of life will allow him to finally act on those thoughts and needs, he doesn’t hesitate.
American Veterans on War
Personal Stories from WW II to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan-wars that seem as far from Americans’ understanding as they are distant from our shores.With American Veterans on War, Elise Forbes Tripp brings our current wars and their predecessors home in the words of 55 veterans aged 20 to 90....
by Matthew Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Everyone has a soul to speak, how to do this is a delicate matter. Matthew Forbes wishes to spread the word for individuals to raise themselves up from the conventional traditions they have been conditioned to accept and take a step beyond. Matthew insists that we are the Ancestors of the Future and...
The Appraiser Calls
Encounters with Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
When I first began my career [as an art appraiser in the 70s], America became enthralled with Upstairs/Downstairs. Now, forty years later, new versions of the same story lines have recaptured our fascination. While these have been pure fiction, what follows are true vignettes of Old Money life from...
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Reminiscences Of The Great Mutiny 1857-59 [Illustrated Edition]
Including The Relief, Siege, And Capture Of Lucknow, And The Campaigns In Rohilcund And Oude
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny.
A fascinating view of the Indian Mutiny from a non-commissioned officer.
“These Reminiscences are submitted to the public in the trust that they will...
Sex in the Museum
My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn’t long before a part-time position at New York’s MUSEUM OF SEX lead to a gig as the museum's...
Love Me Again
The Flying Doctors, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
When Dr Jack Montgomery arrives in remote South Australia and announces he is there to work with the Flying Doctors, flight nurse Lauren Harrison knows she's in trouble. She and Jack had a brief affair and she never expected to see him again, let alone have to work with him in the close confines of...