Max: 3227 books
by Max Cryer
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Have you ever wondered where terms like Angostura bitters and the green room come from? Or why we call some people lounge lizards and others sugar daddies? These are just a few of the words and phrases that language expert Max Cryer examines in this fact-filled new book. He explains where such colourful...
L'Universo matematico
La ricerca della natura ultima della realtà
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Affascinante dalla prima all’ultima pagina, L’universo matematico è uno di quei rari esempi di libri divulgativi singolarmente chiari, che contengono una novità rivoluzionaria e originale. Un libro che potrebbe cambiare il destino di una disciplina, ma che interessa quasi tutti i campi del sapere,...
The Prince of Minor Writers
The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL
Virginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his “whim of iron” and “cleverness amounting to genius,” while Beerbohm himself noted that “only the insane take themselves quite seriously.” From his precocious debut as...
The Wild, Wild West
Thrilling Tales by Famous Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A town that had a man for breakfast every morning.
That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't...
by Max Dickins
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
A book about opening yourself (and sometimes your colon) up to new experiences.
When comedian Max Dickins was dumped by his girlfriend, he was faced not just with excruciating heartbreak but also with the cold realisation that he was bored, bored, bored. Desperate to shake things up, he took...
by Max Stiller
Language: German
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: May 10, 2019
KARDINÄLE WEINEN NICHT
... in Rom wird der IT-Leiter der Erzdiözese München und Freising, Dr. Michael Renner tot aufgefunden. Der Leiche wurden beide Hände abgetrennt. Jacob Fuller vom BKA und Anne von Feldhaus, jüngste stellvertretende Leiterin der Münchner Mordkommission, fliegen nach...
Mate
Become the Man Women Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The #1 bestselling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys
Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what women really...
Praying the Promises
Anchor Your Life to Unshakable Hope
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**Find security and hope in a broken world through the unshakable promises of God. Join bestselling author and beloved pastor Max Lucado as he leads you through 30 life-changing promises from God in Praying the Promises. You’ll experience a more intimate and effective prayer life and a deeper...
A Long Time Dead
A Mike Hammer Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: The first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in history
It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled...
The Long List Anthology Volume 4
More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This is the fourth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the...
by Max G. Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
About the Author
He sought to reach his destiny. But all these time travelers from the future kept trying to interfere. And he says: "I am not a crook, I am a ..."
Max G. Bernard is the pen name of a writer with around 45 years of writing, editing, publishing, and journalism experience....
by Max Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This is the colourful account of swing trumpeter Max Kaminsky’s life on the road in the formative years of jazz. Originally published in 1963, Kaminsky reminisces about playing with many notables, including Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, James P. Johnson,...
Conversations with Bunuel
Interviews with the Filmmaker, Family Members, Friends and Collaborators
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and colleagues—including Salvador Dalí, Louis Aragon and Fernando Rey—conducted by Max Aub in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Notorious for inventing fanciful...
The Ego and His Own
A Masterpiece on Western Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
The Ego and Its Own is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of, on the one hand, Christianity, nationalism and traditional morality, and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism and much of the then-burgeoning socialist...