Phillips: 3002 books

For almost three decades, John E. Phillips has fooled with turkeys, been fooled by turkeys, fooled a few turkeys and been made a fool of by many turkeys. Phillips became a turkey hunter by learning from the masters of the sport. He has gathered information for his newspaper columns, magazine articles...

There is nothing a twenty-one-year-old man at his first job in New York City needs more than a good mentor, although few of them find one. But author Matthew Phillips found the wild, impetuous, and knowledgeable Marylou Stern. The years Matt spent with Marylou were filled with parties, sex, excess,...

A masterful new collection by one of our most important contemporary lyric poets Wind as a face gone red with blowing, oceans whose end is broken stitchery-- swim of sea-dragon, dolphin, shimmer-and-coil, invitation. . . . You Know the kind of map I mean. Countries as distant...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets “What has restlessness been for?” In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named—love...

Meticulously collected from recordings, square and contra dances, fiddle contests, jam sessions and individual fiddlers- this book is meant to provide a snapshot of what American fiddlers were playing and listening to in the latter part of the 20th Century. As the vinyl record format disappears from...

Proposing an original and important re-conceptualization of Italian Renaissance drama, Kristin Phillips-Court here explores how the intertextuality of major works of Italian dramatic literature is not only poetic but also figurative. She argues that not only did the painterly gaze, so prevalent in...

A collection of short stories ranging from mainstream to bizarre, contemporary fiction to horror. Mark Phillips shows you the bright side of human nature and the dark underbelly. A mysterious Bloodwell, a haunted computer program, a strange Feast and a mind-bending Paradox. All these stories and more...

Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations is a catalog of more than 1,700 famous (and not so famous) sayings on life. This book is designed to be a ready reference for seminar and sermon preparation, and it's just plain entertaining. Inside you'll find entirely new material. Bob draws from a variety...

10,000 nautical words and phrases.THE COMPLETE dictionary.This is definately the best and most comprehensive nautical dictionary available in the world today.

Fictional stories about Davy Jones and the Monkees. In Last Train to Murder by Rick L. Phillips, the Monkees track a killer to clear Peter Tork. In story The Old Grey Mare By Christopher Brockow the Monkees help a boy keep his horse. It's written in the style of a TV script. Complete with commercials....

Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive—and one of poetry's most essential—contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the course...

Shame is the root of so much that steals our joy. In this book, Mike Phillips helps us find the roots to the childish belief: "Something is wrong with me." Though this belief has a basis in truth, it eventually controls so much of our behavior and destiny. Though this book is small in size, it is...

Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"-recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems...

Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill. "Like something broken of wing, lying there. Other than breathing's rise, catch, release, a silence, as of some especially wounded animal that, nevertheless, still is conscious, you can see straight...