Matthew: 5036 books
by Matthew Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
“Music Soothes the Soul” features engaging stories from seventy musicians, artists, scientists and entrepreneurs who show how music can positively impact our lives. These personal narratives demonstrate that music truly is a universal language.
“Music Soothes the Soul” reveals the worlds...
Isaac's Army
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto...
Churched
One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing–sometimes cringe-worthy–and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even...
Intel Wars
The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The shock of the 9/11 attacks sent the American intelligence community into hyperactive growth. Five hundred billion dollars of spending in the Bush-Cheney years turned the U.S. spy network into a monster: 200,000-plus employees, stations in 170 countries, and an annual budget of more than $75 billion....
by Matthew Clayfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
"And so a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up: Guatemala City to Tecún Umán, across the Río Suchiate to Tapachula, then by third-class bus or foot along the Pacific coast to Arriaga in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas..."
In 2010, Australian journalist...
by Matthew Felix
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
When Matthew retreated to an isolated mountain village in Spain, he was looking forward to peace and quiet. A friendly old man, a pushy old woman, and an invasive swarm of hornets had other ideas. A humorous, lighthearted series of five very short travel stories.
Telling True Stories
Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
'In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.' - William Powers, author of Hamlet's BlackBerry
'An essential guide for the true storyteller.' - Chloe Hooper,...
by Matthew Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Everyone has a soul to speak, how to do this is a delicate matter. Matthew Forbes wishes to spread the word for individuals to raise themselves up from the conventional traditions they have been conditioned to accept and take a step beyond. Matthew insists that we are the Ancestors of the Future and...
by Matthew Zapruder
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
"Charming, melancholy, hip."-Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."-Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath...
by Matthew Bevis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Lord Byron is one of the most provocative and seductive voices of world literature, and Matthew Bevis provides insights from his work that resonate even today.
Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous...
The Road from Ruin
How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
We Have a World-Class Mess . . . Now What?
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* Amid the carnage of bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes during the financial crisis of 2007–2009 lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous thirty years....
The Secret Sentry
The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In February of 2006, Matthew Aid's discovery of a massive secret historical document reclassification program then taking place at the National Archives made the front page of the New York Times. This discovery is only the tip of the iceberg of Aid's more than twenty years of intensive research, culled...
Life's Greatest Secret
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets. Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that...
by Matthew Carr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Major Matthew Carr is a professional soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When faced with a cancerous invasion of his body, Matthew used the training he had received in the Australian Army to wage his own relentless battle with an enemy force. Autobiographical, practical and inspiring in the...