Jennings: 609 books
Peter Jennings
A Reporter's Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who was Peter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography, readers will get to know Jennings...
Brainiac
Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
One day back in 2003, Ken Jennings and his college buddy Earl did what hundreds of thousands of people had done before: they auditioned for Jeopardy! Two years, 75 games, 2,642 correct answers, and over $2.5 million in winnings later, Ken Jennings emerged as trivia’s undisputed king. Brainiac traces...
Through the Shadows with O. Henry
The Unlikely Friendship of Al Jennings and William Sydney Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Al Jennings lived a life more akin to tall tales than reality. He was an attorney in business with his two brothers in Oklahoma until one was killed and the other wounded in a shootout with a rival attorney. Jennings then joined an outlaw gang and made his living robbing trains. He and his brother...
by Peter Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
“Why Being Happy Matters” presents interviews with people in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia, each of whom reveal to the author what happiness means to them and why it matters. Readers also meet international Ph.Ds. who are actively studying the science of positive psychology.
The...
by N. A. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the command of L. H. McNelly.
At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas...
The Price of Partnership in the Letter of Paul to the Philippians
"Make My Joy Complete"
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Mark A. Jennings challenges the consensus that there is no clear single purpose that shapes the entire epistle to the Philippians; instead arguing that there is significant evidence for Paul to have written the letter with the sole intent of persuading the church to maintain its exclusive partnership...
Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac
8,888 Questions in 365 Days
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac is the ingeniously organized book where, for a change, the all-time Jeopardy! champ gets to ask the questions–and where every day of the year will give you the chance to test your trivia mettle.
For example–February 21: In 1912, on this day, Teddy Roosevelt...
by Kate Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
"I fell in love with a prideful, tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches high. You would see a small brown dog; I saw perfection."
So begins the story of Kate Jennings's unexpected love affair with two border terriers, first Stanley, then, a few years later, Sophie. A fiercely...
Paradise Now
The Story of American Utopianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism—and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history’s most influential utopian movements.
In...
Quarterly Essay 32 American Revolution
The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time: "the run-up to the election ... a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable...
The High-Speed Company
Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The only way to ensure your company’s success is to change faster on the inside than the world is changing on the outside
No one knows the ins and outs of successful companies better than bestselling author Jason Jennings. Back in 2001, with It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small, It’s the...
Dessert First
Transforming Life's Road Kill into Lollipops
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Dessert First: Transforming Life's Road Kill into Lollipops, is Rhonda Jennings' memoir that shares her experiences as she tries to live a "normal" life in the face of overwhelming odds.Jennings tackles head on one of the most horrific of human issues: suicide. With brutal honesty and guts,...
Memoirs of a Failure
The Hollywood Self-Induced Lynching
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Memoirs of a Failure is like no other Hollywood memoir. It is the autobiography of a Hollywood agent and former casting director, Tom Jennings, whose personal demons provide a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of hubris and how to stay out of them.
After the University of Illinois, Jennings...
Because I Said So!
The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings “reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children” (Parade) in this entertaining and useful New York Times bestseller “armed with case histories, scientific finds, and experiments on himself and his own children” (Los Angeles Times).
Is...