Moss: 616 books
The Rookie
An Odyssey through Chess (and Life)
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Chess was invented more than 1,500 years ago, and is played in every country in the world. Stephen Moss sets out to master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of its enduring appeal. What, he asks, is the essence of chess? And what will it reveal about his own character along the way?
In a...
by W. Stanley Moss
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Afterword by Alan Ogden
"One of the finest memoirs of behind-the-lines work during the Second World War. Honest, powerful, and authentic."—Dr. Roderick Bailey, SOE author and historian
A War of Shadows is W. Stanley Moss’s sequel to his classic Ill Met by Moonlight....
by Stephen Moss
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2019
Naturalist Stephen Moss digs beneath the surface of some of our most popular Christmas carols in an ornithological celebration of the Festive Season.
Using the structure of the carol as a jumping off point, he explores the place of twelve fascinating British birds in our history, culture and...
The Hard Light of Day
An Artist's Life in the Australian Outback
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A rare glimpse into the Australian heartland and the interactions of black and white Australians through the eyes of an artist.
Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs in Australia’s outback to teach painting, he met an indigenous couple who had set up camp in the gully beside...
Elephant Memories
Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia,...
by Patrick de Moss
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
In this collection of darkly magical short stories, Patrick de Moss grounds speculative fantasy in a more psychological, complex world - and does so to stunning effect. In "The Sweet Shepherd" a man incapable of dying and living in Connecticut hires a chauffeur, and comes in close contact...
by Chloë Moss
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
A touching play about adolescent friendship.
Luke and Christie are typical sixteen-year-old lads from Manchester. They like camping out, drinking lager and talking about girls. But when they leave school and their lives go in different directions, will they still have things in common?
'Young...
Crossing the Great Divide
Memoir of an Artist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The memoirs and paintings that Rod Moss has produced during the last 35 years are unique in their dramatisation of the lives of his trusting Aboriginal family and have been critically acclaimed nationally and internationally. In his third memoir we follow the nurturing of the curiosity and openness...
Names for the Sea
Strangers in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A memoir of a family’s year living in Reykjavik that “captures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscape” (Booklist).
Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University...
The Boy Who Died and Came Back
Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Travels in Many Worlds with a Master Storyteller Join Robert Moss for an unforgettable journey that will expand your sense of reality and confirm that there is life beyond death and in other dimensions of the multiverse. Moss describes how he lived a whole life in another world when he died at age...
Vanishing New York
How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIR
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
The Myth of Persecution
How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture...
Active Dreaming
Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
As the success of the recent film Inception shows dreams are a source of perennial fascination. Robert Moss has advanced our understanding of the phenomenon with his visionary and down-to-earth synthesis of contemporary dreamwork and venerable shamanic methods. His active dreaming involves re-entering...
Smelling Stinkweed
Gardening Naked and Other World News
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
With globalization and Vice President Biden's talk of getting America on board with the New World Order, and former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev's plan to introduce a New World Religion based on worshiping Mother Nature (pantheism), the smell of Stinkweed is in the air. Moss notes that an article...