Jarvis: 324 books

How did realist novelists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hint at sex while maintaining a safe distance from pornography? Metaphors helped: waves, oceans, blooms, and illuminations were all deployed in respectable realist novels to allude to the sexual act, allowing writers to portray...

Journalismus und Nachrichtenwelt verändern sich stetig im Wandel der Zeit. Jeff Jarvis zeigt in seinem Buch die Möglichkeiten der Zukunft für das News­Business auf - provokativ und unterhaltsam. Der technologische Fortschritt hat die Nachrichtenbranche vollkommen umgekrempelt - die Beziehungen...

A Madera County supervisor falls to his death while climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The other climbers believe it's due to damaged gear. Hannah Monakee, crime reporter for the small Central Valley newspaper, the Borden Gazette, knows better and is determined to figure out what really happened in order to clear her boyfriend's name. 

Pulp waren die Helden des Britpops, und niemand stolperte 1995 so schlaksig durch seine unverhoffte Berühmtheit wie ihr Sänger Jarvis Cocker. In Großbritannien gilt er heute als "national treasure": cool, stylish, charming. Doch es war ein langer Weg dorthin. Geboren im trostlosen Sheffield, gerademal...

Finding Freedom is a deeply moving, life-affirming memoir written from the netherworld of San Quentin’s Death Row. Offering stories that are sometimes sad, funny, poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, painful, and uplifting, Jarvis Masters traces his remarkable spiritual growth in an environment...

ISO 9001:2015 improves on the world’s most widely used Quality Management Standard (QMS), reflecting current trends in economics, innovation, technology, business, and customer requirements. Using ISO 9001:2015, organizations can prevent and quickly address quality problems, deliver better customer...

This compelling story of adventure, romance, and intrigue, set in ancient Egypt, was written by the three-time Newbery Honor and Edgar Award winning author Eloise Jarvis McGraw.   Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom in ancient Egypt, under the rule of Queen Hatshepsut....

The Woven Path is the first book in the compelling Wyrd Museum trilogy. All readers will be drawn in by the gripping storytelling of Robin Jarvis, where the fantastical elements combine with the seriously chilling. In a grimy alley in the East End of London stands the Wyrd Museum, cared for by the...

There can be few world-class companies that boast the heritage and traditions inherent in the British Airways brand. Indeed, the company that became British Airways operated the world's first commercial scheduled airline service in 1919. From the early days of aviation through to more recent times,...

The Essential TV Director's Handbook is written by an ex-BBC trainer with a great deal of experience in the world of television. It describes step-by-step how to prepare and direct every familiar type of common programme format including interviews, discussions, reportage, music and dramatisations...

“Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking really, really big.” —San Jose Mercury News What...

Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals,...

Newfoundland and Labrador is blessed with more fairies, devils, old hags, phantoms, Jacky Lanterns, sea monsters, and other fabulous and frightening creatures than any other spot in Canada. Author and researcher Dale Jarvis, creator of the award-winning St. John's Haunted Hike, has pulled together...