Gross: 466 books
by Philip Gross
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee father's old age. This new book goes further, through the failing of the body, through the mind's...
The Scientific Sublime
Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom....
Half the Man I Used to Be
My Yearlong Journey to Stronger Faith and Better Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
All humans have weaknesses. Even mythical warriors and superheroes have a weakness. For author Brian Ray Gross, that weakness is food. This creates an interesting paradox: food is intended to strengthen, nourish, and sustainbut when we consume too much, we become weakened by it. In this weakness,...
Uncomfortable Situations
Emotion between Science and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was “happily situated” as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask.
Science and the humanities typically offer two different paradigms for thinking...
by F.D. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Blood of the father
Blood of the son
Blood of those dead and gone…
After learning the truth about his missing son, Dorian, Tenor Wolfgang is left with unanswered questions. The vampire hunter and his faithful friend Kronklich pursue Dorian through forces of darkness. Haunted by the phrase...
Angst bei der Arbeit – Angst um die Arbeit
Psychische Belastungen im Berufsleben
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Burnout und Depression sind inzwischen weit verbreitete Phänomene in der Arbeitswelt. Doch meist geht ihnen eine lange Geschichte voraus - eine Geschichte der Angst. Viele Menschen sorgen sich, den ständig wachsenden Anforderungen, der Beschleunigung und Optimierung, dem Druck an allen Fronten nicht...
Anständig geblieben
Nationalsozialistische Moral
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Ehre, Treue, Schande und Kameradschaft: Raphael Gross stellt in diesem Buch erstmals eine moralhistorische Perspektive auf die NS-Geschichte vor. Er zeigt, dass erst ein System von gegenseitig eingeforderten moralischen Gefühlen und Tugenden die Begeisterung der deutschen Bevölkerung für die nationalsozialistische...
by Chuck Gross
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters....
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams
The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the...
by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
From Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, the bestselling authors of the definitive two-volume Star Trek oral history, The Fifty-Year Mission, comes the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Battlestar Galactica in So Say We All.
Four decades after its groundbreaking debut, Battlestar...
Chic Simple Dress Smart Women
Wardrobes That Win in the New Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
In these times of economic uncertainty, dressing to impress has never been so important. Chic Simple DRESS SMART-WOMEN guides the professional female to dress to find a job, to keep a job, and to get a better job. Drawing on interviews from top professionals and their own vast experience via their...
Model
The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young...
Le Haut Palais - Tome 01
Le Pacte d'Obsidian
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Naître esclave est un fait. Pas une fatalité.
Dans le pays d’Ossaniul, il existe une forteresse aussi démesurée qu’inaccessible : le Haut Palais. En maîtres des lieux, les membres de la noble famille d’Aldercrest y règnent sur une véritable armée d’esclaves. Au plus bas de...
by Paul Gross
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Sergeant Michael Dunne of the 10th Canadian Infantry Battalion has survived some of the worst fighting of the Great War. Wounded on the Western Front, he returns home to Calgary, a broken man suffering from neurasthenia and facing trial as a deserter should he ever attempt a return to the battlefield.
In...