Jacobs: 1412 books
Dear Abigail
The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.
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“Never sisters loved each other better than we.”—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776
Much has been written...
The Year of Living Biblically
One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Now a TV series Living Biblically airing on CBS!
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying―as literally as possible―the tenets...
by Harriet Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we’re at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs—renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities—pinpoints five pillars of our culture...
by W.W. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W Jacobs, ‘Odd Craft.’
Mr. Jacobs serenely continues to distribute wholesome food for laughter. These characters elicit fresh admiration for the inexhaustible inventions of their creator.
William Wymark Jacobs...
by Jay W. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
"A compelling story of a modern day maritime tragedy that beautifully discusses the vital importance of advances in observational technologies, forecasts and communications in avoiding future loss of life at sea. Jay Jacobs skillfully weaves together the legal, scientific and maritime narratives...
by Harvey Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Vonnegut meets Catch-22!In the last hours of his hectic life, Simon Apple faces up to the hard truth that his very survival represents a prescription for disaster, not only for the pharmaceutical industry but for the nation itself!How Simon is transformed from an innocent, loving child...
Primal Awareness
A True Story of Survival, Transformation, and Awakening with the Rarámuri Shamans of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
The remarkable story of one man's rediscovery of his primordial mandate and of the strange journey that took him there
• Explores the innate knowledge that exists within us all, a "primal awareness," that can help us to live in harmony with our world
• Shows how we can rediscover...
by Harvey Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The cult hit novel set in the not-too-distant future about a reluctant rebel's defiance of his role in a bar coded society."Bells clanging, lights aflash, the plot's ball bangs and rebounds.... A wonderful and wonderfully funny book."—James SallisLA Times"Writing with exceptional...
by W.W. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W. Jacobs, ‘Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection)’.
Included in this volume are Jacobs's classic sea stories "Deserted," "Homeward Bound," "Self-Help," "Sentence Deferred," "'Matrimonial Openings,...
by W.W. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W Jacobs, ‘The Old Man of the Sea.’
"What I want you to do," said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, "is to be an uncle to me." "Aye, aye," said the mystified Mr. Kemp, pausing...
by W.W. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W. Jacobs, ‘Ship's Company, The Entire Collection’.
William Wymark "W. W." Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. Although much of his work was humorous, he...
The Know-It-All
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
33,000 pages
44 million words
10 billion years of history
1 obsessed man
Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
To fill the...
How to Think
A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." **—David Brooks, New York Times
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our...