Geoff: 832 books
Underrated:
The Yankee Post Roast Book of Awesome Underappreciated Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Contrary to popular legend, every dog does not have his day. Some dogs--i.e., musicians, actors, foodstuffs, sitcoms, beverages, albums, and movies--are perennially overlooked. This book will change all that. Using a highly scientific, unabashedly subjective, yet uncannily accurate formula, the brilliant...
Leadership Beyond Good Intentions
What it takes to really make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
'Aigner connects the inner journey of leadership with the external realities in a readable, useful, practical guide for anyone leading change' - Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, co-authors, Leadership on the Line and co-founders, Cambridge Leadership Associates
'World-leading thinking on leadership'...
Douglas DC-3
80 Glorious Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Like the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire, the Douglas DC-3 is an iconic aircraft design. It has endured more than any other with several hundred still in use worldwide in locations as far apart as Africa, Antarctica and the US. Many of the current operators use turbine conversions of the DC-3mainly...
Resistance is Useless
The Art of Business Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This book will show you how anyone can be persuaded to do anything.
Geoff Burch has written a book that will change almost everything you ever believed about business and selling. Combining the quick wit of a stand up comedian with the serious thoughtfulness of a psychoanalyst, he explains the value...
Sun, Sin & Suburbia
The History of Modern Las Vegas, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
More than forty million visitors per year travel to Sin City to visit the gambling mecca of the world. But gambling is only one part of the city’s story. In this carefully documented history, Geoff Schumacher tracks the rise of Las Vegas, including its vital role during World War II; the rise of...
by Geoff C. Anoke
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
World changers are rooted on the unfailing Word of God.This book guides you on how to get your business career secured on the sure foundation of God's word and how to spring forward from there.
Along Different Lines
70 Real Life Railway Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Running a railway is a complex business. However well-run it is there will always be surprises, often hilarious, frequently unexpected, sometimes serious. Here railway professionals recall notable incidents from across their careers on the railways, lovingly compiled by expert railwaymen and authors...
But Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
"May be the best book ever written about jazz."—David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer...
by Bessie Bardot, Geoff Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Everyone is fascinated by glamorous, cut-throat industries like modelling, but most of us could never even come close to guessing what really goes on behind the scenes. Now it's time to find out.
Bessie Bardot and Geoff Barker, former managing team behind the highly innovative modelling agency...
This Is Not A Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
What is a Poltergeist?
Understanding Poltergeist Activity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The author of Poltergeist Over Scotland embarks on an in-depth study of the characteristics that imbue the paranormal world’s “noisy ghosts.”
What Is a Poltergeist? is an introduction to the mysterious phenomenon examining the theories and presenting the latest research evidence for poltergeist...
Zona
A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
From a writer whose mastery encompasses fiction, criticism, and the fertile realm between the two, comes a new book that confirms his reputation for the unexpected.
In Zona, Geoff Dyer attempts to unlock the mysteries of a film that has haunted him ever since he first saw it thirty years ago:...
by Geoff Holder
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally...
The Shadow Man
At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who recruited promising students deemed ripe for conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was reinforced...