Gavin: 705 books
by Gavin Souter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Lion and Kangaroo is one of Australias great works of history, a rich chronicle of the nations coming-of-age.With intelligence, wisdom and wit, Gavin Souter captures all the milestones of Australias first decades, from the constitutional conventions of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years that...
by Gavin Luke
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book is dedicated to all those who believe in love, was in love and want to be in love It is a comical but hopefully inciteful look at the trials of recovering from divorce on the journey to moving forward.
Lessons from the Top
The three universal stories that all successful leaders tell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but we rarely have the background knowledge to explore how they do so. In this hugely insightful guide to getting to the top, leading journalist...
by Gavin Souter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The northern Sydney suburb of Mosman, a verdant peninsula between Port Jackson and Middle Harbour, has historically been known for its whaling and careening, pleasure grounds, artists and bohemians camps, and army fortifications. To the present day it is distinguished from other communities by a continuing...
by Gavin Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Days of Voilence... The 1923 police strike in Melbourne... The police strike of 1923 resulted in a weekend orgy of destruction. Three persons were killed and property valued at hundreds of thousands of pounds destroyed in the Melbourne central business district. The strike resulted from a breakdown in...
Zen Pencils-Volume Two
Dream the Impossible Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The second volume of Zen Pencils comics takes more of your favorite inspirational quotes and poetry and transforms them into heartwarming cartoon stories.
Featuring quotes of revered minds including Isaac Asimov, Maya Angelou, Kahlil Gibran, Robert F. Kennedy, and William Shakespeare plus celebrities...
The World According to Tom Hanks
The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
An entertaining and insightful homage to Tom Hanks, America's favorite movie star, from the New York Times bestselling author of the cult sensation The Tao of Bill Murray.
Niceness gets a bad rap these days. Our culture rewards those who troll the hardest and who snark the most. At times it...
Morrissey
The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of...
Meeting Bill Murray
Wahre Geschichten, die dir keiner glaubt
Language: German
Release Date: April 24, 2017
"Wenn du es zulässt, wird das Leben großartig!" Bill Murray
Stellen Sie sich vor, Ihnen hält auf der Straße plötzlich jemand die Augen zu und fragt "Wer bin ich?" - und dieser jemand ist Bill Murray. Oder Sie feiern eine Party, und plötzlich steht Bill Murray in Ihrer...
by Gavin James Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Startled by rapid social changes at the turn of the twentieth century, citizens of Atlanta wrestled with fears about the future of race relations, the shape of gender roles, the impact of social class, and the meaning of regional identity in a New South. Gavin James Campbell demonstrates how these...
by Gavin Souter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1893 almost 500 Australians set out by ship to carve a communist utopia from the heart of Paraguay. Led by socialist journalist and activist, William Lane, their aim was to realise the cherished Australian principles of equality and mateship.Expulsions and secessions began early; in mid-1894 Lane...
Merrill's Marauders
The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In August of 1943, a call went out for American soldiers willing to embark on a “hazardous and dangerous mission” behind enemy lines in Burma. The war department wanted 3,000 volunteers, and it didn’t care who they were; they would be expendable, with an expected casualty rate of 85 percent....
by Gavin Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
The SAS are among the best-trained and most effective Special Forces units in existence. This book is the incredible story of their origins, told in their own words. During the summer of 1941, a young Scots Guard officer called David Stirling persuaded MEHQ to give its backing to a small band of 60...
Fire and Desolation
The Revolutionary War's 1778 Campaign as Waged from Quebec and Niagara Against the American Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Following a disastrous campaign in 1777, the alliance between the Six Nations and the British Crown became seriously strained. Relations were made even more difficult by the hands-off stance of Quebec’s governor, General Guy Carleton, which led to the Native leaders developing their own strategies...