Shaun: 510 books
Not the movie of the week
Frightening flops and fabulous flicks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Shaun de Waal’s movie reviews are masterpieces in the genre of reviews, and have become celebrated for their wit and insight. The collection includes almost 100 reviews – of classics and trash, blockbusters and art films – organised by theme. The defining South African book about close-ups, red carpets and sad endings.
Hard Time
Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America?s Toughest Jail
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Shaun Attwood was a millionaire day trader in Phoenix, Arizona, but his hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and parties came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a SWAT team broke down his door. Attwood found himself on remand in Maricopa Jail with a $750,000 cash bond and all of his assets seized. The nightmare...
Steroid Nation
Juiced Home Run Totals, Anti-aging Miracles, and a Hercules in Every High School: The Secret History of America's True Drug Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
"Steroid Nation is a rip-roaring good rock'n'roll read. How could it not be? It's the classic American drug story up there with Blow, Nikki Sixx's autobiography and the Hunter S. Thompson story." – Steve Wells, The Guardian They are the drugs that make millionaires, and cause careers to crash. They...
Exactly As I Am
Celebrated Women Share Candid Advice with Today's Girls on What It Takes to Believe in Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Entertainment reporter and author Shaun Robinson has spoken candidly both on camera and behind the scenes with countless celebrities. Consequently, she has received hundreds of emails and letters from girls across the country asking how they can be more like their favorite stars. But the truth is,...
The Long Hangover
Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again. Walker not...
Zygmunt Bauman
Why Good People do Bad Things
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and why his intellectual creativity is...
Art as Medicine
Creating a Therapy of the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1992
"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine." The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"—the themes, methods, and materials...
The Making of a Catholic President
Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith in 1928--he was routed in the general...
by Shaun J. McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The soldiers and civilians who participated in the Patriot War, fought between 1837 and 1842, hoped to free Canada from supposed British tyranny, as the United States had done just over half a century before. Despite heavy losses throughout, the American and Canadian "Patriots" refused to give up their...
by Shaun Allan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
I am Death. I know who you are...
There is darkness and madness in each of us. We must do battle with our own demons.
But...
What if those demons opened the door in the back of your mind and stepped out. What if they became real? If the night, the shadows, the reflections and Death himself walked...
by Shaun Morey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
What’s almost as good as going fishing? Hearing, telling, and swapping great fish stories. Shaun Morey is a fisherman, a connoisseur of fish stories, and a journalist with a novelist’s eye (and vice versa) in this collection of over 100 incredible (and true!) fishing stories.
Here are Remarkable...
by Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, seventeen of the most recognizable YA writers—including Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Beth Revis—come together to share the viewpoints of a group of students affected by a school shooting.
It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby...
The Walk
Clear Direction and Spiritual Power for Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Are you walking with God, dragging your feet or running ahead of Him? Take the first step in living at God's pace and let Shaun Alexander show you how to embark on the greatest adventure of your life.
Walking with God gets you from where you are to where God wants you to be. Standing still...
The Code
The Power of "I Will"
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
How to convert the power of “I Will” into a life-changing mantra
The twelve stories in this book, taken from Shaun Tomson’s own life experiences in and out of the surfing world, offer the simple message—I Will—as a model to face life’s challenges and help you achieve your goals....