Joe: 3835 books

“A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year”   An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should...

The modern generation could hardly believe there was quality life without computers, the internet, cell (smart)phones, navigation and communication satellites, television, nuclear energy, Rock 'N Roll music, jet air travel, antibiotics, the Interstate Highway System, a hard-drug culture, the civil...

An inside look at the 2017 Houston Astros championship season, focusing on the epic seven-game World Series, the front office decisions that built a winning team, and the resilience of the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. On November 1, 2017, the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles...

In this provocative treatise, author Joe Khamisi catalogues the events that took place during one of Kenyas most important periods in history. This period began in 2002, when Daniel Arap Moi stepped down after twenty-four years as president of Kenya. Khamisi reviews events up to the time when the...

A gripping, fast-paced account of the life of the indigenous man who founded and led the Indian Posse, one of the most dangerous gangs in North America, into violence, power, and infamy. In 2008, Daniel Richard Wolfe was awaiting trial on two counts of first-degree murder at the Regina Correctional...

In this concert file, Joe McMichael and 'Irish' Jack Lyons assemble an amazingly thorough chronicle of live performances played by the hardest working rock 'n' roll band of all time. This book includes:Over 1500 gigs, including set-lists, eye-witness accounts and background notes. Updated...

In The Ghost Horse, Joe Layden tells the inspiring true tale of a one-eyed, club-footed thoroughbred racehorse and a journeyman trainer, Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the broken and unwanted filly. Snyder helped the horse overcome its deficiencies, eventually naming...

It’s Impossible to Forget Tonya Harding. ** ** She will be forever remembered as a tough-talking, hard-living athlete who would do anything to become an Olympic Gold Medalist. But was Tonya Harding a misunderstood girl from the wrong side of the tracks? Did her raw talent and burning ambition trip...

Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motivated Brooklyn...

What was your earliest childhood artwork that received recognition? When did you first consider yourself a professional artist? How has your studio's location influenced your work? How do you choose titles? Do you have a favorite color? Joe Fig asked a wide range of celebrated artists these...

Joe Holley has an active column in the Houston Chronicle Peter Brown's previous books published by Norton Great regional Texas appeal: Pictures include Ivanhoe State Bank in Lipscomb, Galveston-Bolivar Ferry, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Marathon, Rio Grande, Davis Mountains,...

An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of O'Hara's poetry Joe LeSueur lived with Frank O'Hara from 1955 until 1965, the years when O'Hara wrote his greatest poems, including "To the Film Industry in Crisis," "In Memory of My Feelings,"...

From “one of the best sportswriters in America” (The Washington Times)—the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose sparring matches defined the sport for more than a decade. The first time they met, at an...

After nearly a decade, a dying musician meets his favorite student and finds he can only connect again through his music. This short story by J.H. Bunting features the life of the great jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, who died tragically far too young, and how music connects us beyond race, generation, and even death.