Rupert: 375 books

In its first year as a daily cartoon blog on Facebook, Off The Leash developed a regular daily following of half a million dog lovers from around the world, and has become a place where people who are passionate about pooches share anecdotes, pictures and jokes. Capturing the secret thoughts and dreams...

Jake Miller has just been shot by a member of the British Counterterrorism Unit. As he lies on his bedroom floor, wondering if he’s going to bleed out, he attempts to put the last few months of his life into perspective. One minute he’s starting a high-flying job in the corporate banking sector;...

Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmes–author of the critically acclaimed Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award—winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood–now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in an innovative novel of intrigue set in 1940, during the very...

A stinging satire of tell-all showbiz memoirs starring a self-deluded gay icon who has managed to ride every pop culture trend of the last forty years. Marc LeJeune has had a remarkable career in the entertainment business. Despite the carping of critics, cruel twists of fate, and the treachery...

Primary teachers need to incorporate the use of computers in their daily lesson plans, but how can this be done most effectively to promote learning skills in the classroom? In this fascinating book, Lyn Dawes and Rupert Wegerif outline a strategy for enhancing the effectiveness of computers for teaching...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Originally published in 1931, this is a collection of travel essays by the English poet Rupert Brooke. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author with the aim of...

'If they've got any sense they'll leave the boy with Alicia Robbins.'But they didn't.They (the Juvenile Court, that is) took Gerry Lovell away from the old spinster who had taken him in ad cared for him so passionately and they had packed him off to an Approved School. Gerry had always been...

(Vocal Selections). This Charles Dickens novel was adapted for Broadway by Rupert Holmes in 1986, and went on to win 5 Tony Awards. 12 selections: There You Are * A Man Could Go Quite Mad * Two Kinsmen * Moonfall * The Wages of Sin * Both Sides of the Coin * Perfect Strangers * Never the Luck * Off...

Harold Rydon was working at Euri Creek, a few miles from Bowen, Queensland when war was declared on August 5th 1914. He rode to Bowen that afternoon, joining up as a private in the Australian Army, and, after training, was shipped to Egypt, Lemnos and eventually Gallipoli where his unit was in the...

Rupert Berndl ist es als Maler und Bildhauer gewohnt, präzise zu beobachten, hinter die Dinge und unter die Oberfläche zu blicken. In seinen heiteren Mundartgedichten, kurzen Geschichten und Anekdoten berichtet er von persönlichen Erlebnissen aus dem ganz gewöhnlichen Alltag und deckt dabei humorvoll...

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films....

Are the world’s major spiritual traditions sources of greater discord than harmony? Or are conflicts widely blamed on faith differences fundamentally social and political? In this succinct but richly reflective book, Rupert Shortt offers even-handed guidance on one of the most disputed questions...

Die „Götter“ der Musikszene im persönlichen Porträt Bei allen Unterschiedlichkeiten ist den großen Dirigenten eines gemein: Sie müssen über eine ausgeprägte Persönlichkeit mit großer Überzeugungskraft verfügen. Der „schreibende Cellist“ Rupert Schöttle, der als freier Mitarbeiter...

Rupert Spira lädt dazu ein, die Welt mit neuen Augen zu sehen - ganz von der eigenen Erfahrung ausgehend. Erfahrung meint er in einem ganz radikalen Sinne, als "reine Erfahrung" ohne subjektive Wertungen, nicht verfälscht durch Interpretationen. Mit einer Reihe von "Experimenten"...