Moss: 616 books
Raoul Walsh
The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors -- along with...
Tweet of the Day
A Year of Britain's Birds From the Acclaimed Radio 4 Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme. Then imagine that he is able to play half a dozen instruments - not one after another, but almost simultaneously, switching effortlessly between instruments and musical styles with hardly a pause for breath. If you can countenance that, you are halfway...
The Worthy of My Race
Social Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
. Trans. Edith Moss Jackson The Worthy of My Race: Social Sketches, is a bilingual edition of Jorje Miguel Fords biographies, published in 1899. The United Nations, declaring that 2012 initiates the Decade of the Afrodescendant, encourages the recovery of such texts. This translation broadens readership...
The Other Christs
Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Moss begins by tracing the theme of imitating Jesus through suffering in the literature of the Jesus movement and early church and its application in martyrdom literature. She demonstrates the importance of imitating the sufferings of Christ as a practice and ethos in the Jesus movement. She then...
by David A. Moss
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.
Athens in Decline (Routledge Revivals)
404-86 B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Athens has, at different times and from different points of view, been cited as a model of moderate democracy and triumphant humanism, or, on the contrary, as an illustration of the disorders due to demagoguery and misguided imperialism. Professor Mossé looks beyond these judgments to discuss the...
America the Principled
6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless ways—red or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. What happened to America as the land of freedom and openness? In America the Principled, renowned Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss...
National Park Ranger, A.K.A., "Bleeding Green & Grey"
High Adventure Tales, Humorous Stories, & Deadly Consequences!
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
National Park Ranger, a.k.a., Bleeding Green & Grey tells the stories that cover well beyond just the numerous and sometimes daily heroic deeds that other present park ranger books more than adequately validate. However, these new true-life tales not only embrace such topics as the customary high...
Any Size, Anywhere Edible Gardening: The No Yard, No Time, No Problem Way To Grow Your Own Food
The No Yard, No Time, No Problem Way To Grow Your Own Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Edibles continue to be popular choices for gardeners, and beginning gardeners are no exception. Author William Moss takes a beginning gardener through all the steps needed to grow vegetables and fruits in any setting, regardless of the available (or desired) size. This book covers container gardening,...
Rogue Hearts
Making Sense of the Boston Marathon Bombings
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
In Rogue Hearts, Moss says, “Out of all of the people in Boston, Massachusetts, two bloody hearts went rogue and paralyzed a city of one million…it’s not the last of mayhem. With radical Muslims and extremists running rampant, along with those influenced by violence on the big screen and television, there will be more. Therefore, what do we do as a nation...or is it too late?
by Stephen Moss
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Birds and bird lore provide a fascinating window onto our social and cultural history, and can tell us much about our changing relationship with the British landscape, our people and society. We Brits love our birds. They hold a special place in our hearts – whether it's the sound of birdsong on...
This Birding Life
The Best of the "Guardian's" Birdwatch
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Stephen Moss’s collection of Guardian ‘Birdwatch’ columns forms a fascinating picture of one man’s birding life: from early coot-watching as a young boy, through teenage cycle trips to Dungeness, to adult travels around the world as a TV producer working everywhere from the Gambia to Antarctica.
Drawing...
Wisden Anthology 1978-2006
Cricket's Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
A definitive tome, essential to all cricket book collectors and Wisden readers.
In the early 1980s Wisden published four anthologies that celebrated the best of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack stretching back to its first edition in 1864. Edited by the respected jazz musician, raconteur and cricket-lover,...
by Harvard Business Review, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
You need confidence to inspire trust, communicate effectively, and succeed in your organization. But self-doubt and nerves can undermine your ability to act decisively and persuade others. What can you do to push past these insecurities?
This book explains how you can use emotional intelligence...