Stark: 663 books
The Stark Reality of Stretching
For All Activities and Every Sport Focusing on the Weight Bearing Muscles of the Lower Extremities
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A comprehensive operator’s manual for the body, this newly updated guide provides the science, anatomy, precise definitions, and illustrations necessary for the proper application of knowledge to help keep the body healthy. It provides a current and concise understanding of why people should stretch,...
The Sense of Dissonance
Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used...
The Score
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on...
Parker
Movie Tie-in Edition, Originally Published as "Flashfire"
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
There have been many film adaptations of Richard Stark’s novels over the years, but none of them actually featured a protagonist named Parker—and none of them fully captured Parker’s chilling tenacity and laconic anticharm. Here for the first time is the real Parker, played by Jason Statham....
Pandora's DNA
Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That’s not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark’s relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female...
When Strangers Meet
How People You Don't Know Can Transform You
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Discover the unexpected pleasures and exciting possibilities of talking to people you don’t know—how these beautiful interruptions can change you, and the world we share.
When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative possibilities of talking to people you don’t know....
The Triumph of Faith
Why the World is More Religious Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The**Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. Stark marshals an incredible amount of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. He explains why the...
The Last Time Around Cape Horn
The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceans-on one of the most historic voyages of our time-finds its way into paperback. This is William F. Stark's engrossing memoir of the last leg of the Grain Race, and the Pamir's rounding of fearsome Cape Horn-the...
Cities of God
The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity spread, and how? Based on quantitative data and the latest scholarship, preeminent...
The Jugger
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on...
Nickels
A tale of dissociation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable"
--Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl
Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood. Told in a...
by Corey Stark, Melody Lewis, Jolie James
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Attraction is always natural. But in the tales compiled here, attraction is more than natural, it's supernatural. It's downright uncanny.
Let Corey Stark, Melody Lewis and Jolie James plunge you into the depths of pleasure, pain and passion, and experience what happens when these men give in...
The Mourner
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on...
by Richard GK Stark
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
What! No Vampires or Zombies! Something far more original.Gripping, hard-hitting Contemporary Horror stories that lie on the edge of what is reality and what is fantasy.Following on from the highly successful Volume One this story is taken from Volume Two as a free teaser, entitledDoors - a high flying...