Phil: 1611 books
Burning the Midnight Oil
Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow restless souls, Cousineau...
by Cousineau, Phil
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Drawing from history, movies, pop culture, and his own life experience, filmmaker and writer Phil Cousineau shows how ancient myths continue to affect and shape our contemporary lives. Each chapter moves from the ancient to the modern, from the once, to the now, to the future. Chapters include both...
Dig
Sound and Music in Hip Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question What is hip? remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive. In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang...
You're Lucky You're Funny
How Life Becomes a Sitcom
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
The creator and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, on how to make a sitcom classic and keep laughing
This laugh-out-loud memoir takes readers backstage and inside the writers’ room of one of America’s best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy...
by Phil Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Nick Alden is a professional yacht captain who gets involved with Linda Sable, the stunning new mistress of his employer. It's a dangerous romance, because Nick works for Bruno Testa, a mob boss. Nick and Linda's affair is becoming hopelessly addictive.And then Bruno finds out . . .A short story from an award winning author.
by Phil Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Stuart Milligan and Terrance Crawley have been best friends since they were teenagers. But they drifted apart when Stuart went to college and Terrance joined the Marines. Stuart eventually obtained his degree in Business Management from the University of Memphis while Stuart served as a military policeman...
One in the Eye for Harold
Why everything you thought you knew about history is wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The problem with history is that much of what you learn in school simply isn't true! For instance, King Harold was NOT shot in the eye with an arrow at the Battle of Hastings, Neanderthals were not as dumb as you'd think, Britain had an Indian curry restaurant years before it had fish-and-chip shops...
Democracy Denied
How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America - and How to Stop Him
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Democracy Denied by Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen is a guide to understanding and defeating the radical agenda that President Barack Obama is implementing by unilateral regulatory action through his agencies and czars.
Democracy Denied exposes the Obama administration's...
The Citizen-Soldier
Moral risk and the modern military
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In this Brookings Essay titled The Citizen-Soldier,” National Book Award winner, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Phil Klay sheds light on the tension and relationship between veterans and society. Klay is an established author and has previously received noteworthy praise for his book, Redeployment....
Mafia Prince
Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUE!"
Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history -Little” Nicky Scarfo's reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s-written by Scarfo's underboss and nephew, Crazy” Phil Leonetti.
The youngest-ever underboss...
by Phil Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914––97) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In William S. Burroughs, Phil Baker investigates this cult writer’s life and work—from small-town Kansas to New York in the ’40s, Mexico and the South American jungle,...
Come Out Smokin'
Joe Frazier: The Champ Nobody Knew
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The first book ever to delve into the life of the legendary heavyweight boxing champion.
Acclaimed sportswriter Phil Pepe explores the iconic boxer “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier’s early beginnings. From his dirt poor childhood and relationship with his father to his street fights and Olympic boxing...
Still a Kid at Heart
My Life in Baseball and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In his new book, Still a Kid at Heart, written with longtime New York baseball writer Phil Pepe, Carter writes of his love for the game, the personalities on and off the field who have enriched his life, and the years since his retirement. His experiences serve as a primer for all professional athletes...
Yankee Doodles
Inside the Locker Room with Mickey, Yogi, Reggie, and Derek
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. While he was there to report on the action that occurred on the field, as well as the many disruptions occurring...