Mick: 406 books
by Mick Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If you’re one of those crying-to-your-shrink-cause-your-childhood-was-SO-hard type of people, you should probably read #1 New York Times Bestselling author Mick Foley’s fiction debut, Tietam Brown, for a reality check. Even if you’re not one of them, stop your whining and pick up the damn thing...
How We Worship
The Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Hours
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
If you are new to the Catholic faith or if you are experienced in it, if you are curious about Catholic worship or if you've grown too used to it, it is time for you to read this book.
Rev. Paul Turner, author, pastor, and liturgist
Archdiocese of Kansas City, Missouri
Many people have not...
by Simon Calder, Mick Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
High in the Pyrenees, a full day's hike from any trappings of civilisation, is no place for a human to be - unless you are searching for the time of your life.
This is the roof of a mountain range that stretches from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean coasts, and provides some of the most breathtakingly...
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak
A Fast History of Amphetamine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Elvis Presley, the Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Judy Garland, Hank Williams, the Manson Family, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, JFK, and Adolf Hitler. All of the above were, at one time or another, to put it bluntly, speedfreaks.
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces...
by Mick O'Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
When the rebellion of 1916 had ended, more than 400 people were dead and over 2,000 wounded. More than half of these were civilians, but even for those civilians who were not direct casualties, the rising was one of the most momentous experiences of their lives. The accounts that Mick O'Farrell has...
by Mick Cochrane
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.
Molly doesn’t want to be seen as “Miss Difficulty Overcome”; she wants to make herself known to the...
Vertical Pleasure
Early climbs in Britain, the Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya/The secret life of a taxman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Vertical Pleasure is the first set of climbing memoirs from Mick Fowler - Britain's hardest-climbing tax inspector, the 'Mountaineer's Mountaineer' and recipient of the Piolet d'Or. Vertical Pleasure begins with Fowler's early teenage years on easy British rock and Swiss 4000m peaks under the guidance...
The Ghosts of K2
The Race for the Summit of the World's Most Deadly Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
At 28,251 ft, K2 might be almost 800 ft shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. In this definitive account, Mick Conefrey grippingly describes the early attempts to reach the summit and provides a fascinating exploration of the first ascent’s complex legacy. From the ill-fated efforts...
Everest 1953
The Epic Story of the First Ascent
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
CLICK HERE to download a sample from Everest 1953In the only book to tell the real story of Everest 1953, Mick Conefrey reveals that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned attempt was in fact beset by crises -- both on and off the mountain. To succeed, team leader Colonel...
The Adventurer's Handbook
From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a Desert
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
What makes a good explorer? Adaptability, ambition, stamina, self-confidence, curiosity, optimism, authority—and fund-raising ability. Though few of us will ever have to face a charging elephant, or survive solely on penguin stew, when it comes to project management, crisis aversion, or any number...
by Mick Pickup
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This is the true story of a football fan so desperate to follow his team, he decides to hitchhike all over the British Isles to watch them.It starts with a ‘Road to Damascus’ conversion to football fanaticism and then takes in the terror and discomfort of football hooliganism in the 1970s...
The Secondary Curriculum Design Handbook
Preparing Young People for Their Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a national curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the...
by Mick Olinik
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Over the past few years, the best online marketing results have come from adapting the tried-and-true strategies of direct response sales to the online space. While there has been plenty written about online marketing and funnel building from this perspective, Beyond The Marketing Funnel takes it...
by Mick Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Published to tie in with Mick Jackson's appointment as the first writer-in-residence at the Science Museum, Junior Science comprises three stories - 'Zero Gravity', 'The Answering Machine', and 'Back to School'. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4, they were originally broadcast in November 2011.
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