Justin: 1754 books
Secret Historian
The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude...
Rebel Souls
Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-rightly considered...
Back Then
Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is thecandid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege...
by Justin Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
As an adolescent, Justin Pearson moved with his mother from Shit Creek Phoenix, AZ” to sunny San Diego after his father was murdered on Halloween. There, he fell in with a subculture of young musicians playing some of the most original and brutal music in the world. Turns out the chaos of Pearson’s...
The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.
Focusing...
Motion(less) Pictures
The Cinema of Stasis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for...
by Justin Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Park Jae-sang (Korean: 박재상; born December 31, 1977) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, tv talent show judge, dancer and record producer. He performs as Psy (short for Psycho) and seems to be everywhere these days. The public have gone gaga over this South Korean rapper whose video “Gangnam...
Why Should Anyone Buy from You?
Earn customer trust to drive business success
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
HOW TO WIN TRUST AND INFLUENCE CUSTOMERS
This revealing book shows how the only reliable route to sustainable business growth and profit is to build trust in your company.
Justin Basini presents an array of surprising insights based on his in-depth research and on exclusive interviews...
by Justin Mccarthy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
A History Of The Four Georges VOL. II.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY Author of "A History of Our Own Times" Etc. In Four Volumes [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]
Beating the Odds
Jump-Starting Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditions
Contrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions...
Determined Runners
Kenyan running and training
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
This first hand book, written by an athlete who has lived in the same training camps with the world's top runners, trained and shared the same experiences with them for over ten years now, may change your perceptions about these world beaters after you learn how much they sacrifice in their training.
Revolution Against Empire
Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representationRevolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage...
by Justin Simien
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
*Now a Netflix Original Series*
In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the “incredibly entertaining” (Indiewire) film of the same name, which “heralds a fresh and funny new voice” (Variety).
Right...
Do Unto Others
1000 Hilarious Ways to Screw with People's Heads
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2000
From the authors of Would You Rather, comes Do Unto Others, A Life's Little Instruction Book for those looking to add a little lunacy to their lives.With over 1,000 off-the-wall things to do in over 50 locations (churchs, shopping malls, public bathrooms, etc.), Justin Heimberg and David Gomberg have...