Young: 2898 books

"The most controversial book on modern Scottish history written by a professional historian in the twentieth century." In 1979, the year of Margaret Thatcher's election, historian James D. Young published this seminal study of Scottish working class history. Now updated to cover the period...

Identifies the patterns of our planet’s design within the natural landscape • Explains the geometry inherent in the mountains and coasts on all continents • Reveals how ancient monuments were built to reflect and enhance the Earth’s design, often connecting sites around the world •...

A collection of full plays, short plays and monologues from British East Asian writers, including Jingan Young, Kathryn Golding, Amber Hsu, Cathy Lam, Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen, Tan Suet Lee, Julie Cheung Inhin & Stephen Hoo. Contains a foreword written by David Henry Hwang and Jingan Young. Includes...

Dean Young is one of the premier surrealist poets writing today. In Skid, his fifth book of poems, social outrage vies with comic excess. He embraces the autobiographical urge with fury and musically lush exclamations. Whether through the dark facts of mortality or the celebratory surprises of the...

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine 1999 Poetry Book of the Year With rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young’s latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes...

This is an instructional manual written for men describing how to improve your relationships with women, particularly those women born during and after the Baby-boom era. It gives an historical social account on how we arrived at this place of communication breakdown post-women's rights and how to...

Sexy young redhead Emma prides herself on being a good student, but when she starts university, her grades begin to slip. Taking matters into her own hands, she visits her handsome professor after-hours to tell him she won't settle for anything less than an A. But the masculine older man has...

In Kruispad vertel Paul Young, skrywer van die internasionale topverkoper, The Shack (in Afrikaans uitgegee as Die Shack), 'n hartroerende storie van transformasie in 'n man se lewe wat vasgevang was in sy eie bestaan, iewers tussen hemel en aarde. Anthony Spencer is 'n selfsugtige en egosentriese sakeman...

From our Varuna Awards program comes a classic outlaw tale of a father and son on the run. ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong when his father, Kev, bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, leaving their friend Max white-faced, silent and covered in blood.As the two head for Broken...

A collection of five unusual and twisted short stories introducing original characters and the worlds they live in. Joshua Constantine is a ruthless, wealthy entrepreneur searching for his soulmate, by any means necessary.  When Tommy “Two Fists” McCabe, an enforcer for the...

This book recounts the legendary love story of Chandidas and Rami, 14th-century Bengalis. He is a young Brahmin priest who renounces his caste status to become an heretical poet-musician wandering the byways of India with a small band of mystics and bards. Rami is a beautiful 20-year-old widow, of low...

This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when...

Read the Bible together with the concise devotional study notes of Matthew Henry. This edition has some unique features: - Complete Study Bible containing the Bible text as well as Matthew Henry’s devotional study notes. - Bible text and devotional notes are fully integrated. You can read the bible...

Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. "Resource nationalism"—the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the "nation"—has often united otherwise disparate groups, including mineworkers,...