Snyder: 939 books
South Korea at the Crossroads
Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Against the backdrop of China’s mounting influence and North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at the Crossroads, Scott A. Snyder examines the...
Soldier of Change
From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
When ôDonÆt Ask, DonÆt Tell,ö the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers,...
Of Time and Memory
My Parents' Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or grandparents to tell him the story of the lovely girl...
Skateboarding LA
Inside Professional Street Skateboarding
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street skateboarding
On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a “heel flip” over a fire hydrant on a sidewalk in front of the Biltmore Hotel. A staff member of the...
The Turkey Shack
A Journey to Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
How did a farmer come to create a spiritual sanctuary?
This book is the story behind the creation of Pathways Spiritual Sanctuary on a ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota. An unlikely story that begins in a tin shed called the Turkey Shack.
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Nobody Home
Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively-globally, locally, and in their personal lives-and these changing conditions...
Walk Ride Rodeo
A Story About Amberley Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
This is a story of a cowgirl whose love for horses overpowered all challenges put in her path. Her rodeo career began at a young age and her future was destined for success. A car accident changed Amberley’s life at age eighteen, leaving her paralyzed. Her challenges and victories are shared as a part of Amberley’s journey.
by Blake Snyder
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Blake Snyder, uno de los guionistas de más éxito de Hollywood, ofrece una pintura ágil, divertida y franca de la trastienda de la industria cinematográfica. ¡Salva al gato! hace referencia a una de sus infalibles teorías para lograr que las ideas resulten más atractivas y cualquier guión más...
This Present Moment
New Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"This present moment
That lives on
To become
Long ago."
For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from...
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1978
Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author.
Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960...
by Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought.” (Los Angeles Times)
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the...
John Joseph Mathews
Life of an Osage Writer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not come easily to Mathews, and his personality was full of contradictions. In this captivating biography,...
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published...
The Community College Career Track
How to Achieve the American Dream without a Mountain of Debt
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Get a good education without massive debt, and enter a field that's actually hiring
In coming years, millions of great jobs will be opening up in growth areas like advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, health care, information technology, and sustainable energy. These jobs can pay as well...