John - Libros y biografía

For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase again....

Bernie and Margie, a love story, plus, leitmotif, subliminal messages, and a multiple choice quiz on the meaning of life.

'The dream was football . . .'John Giles had a gift. At the age of three, he could kick a ball the way it was supposed to be kicked. And he knew that every hour that passed without kicking a ball was...

To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography. The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Like so many tormented...

Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable,...

A classic love story, The Last Summer chronicles a young man on the verge of growing up and an older woman running away from a life out of control. It is the summer of 1968: The world is poised on the...

Internationally bestselling author John Connolly takes readers into the dark world of private detective Charlie Parker, whose deadly fight against evil begins when the daughter of a South Carolina millionaire...

Troubled ex-cop turned private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest “compulsively readable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly.John Connolly...

A dramatic account of one of the most momentous trials in American history.Set in the 1880s, this riveting story focuses on Whittaker, a former slave who became the third black man to enter West Point....

One of America's most acclaimed suspense writers now serves up a bracingly original nail-biter that takes us deep into the rugged terrain of the Utah mountains. Sherry Carrigan O'Toole can't seem to...

          When church histories of Africa have been written, they've usually been done by Westerners. These writers have typically been missionaries or relief workers; their analyses and conclusions have...

The Only Poker Book You’ll Ever Need makes picking up the smartest tips and slyest tricks a cinch.In a brief, to-the-point format, this plucky guide helps readers master the basics of play and use poker...

The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of them led with courage — but also with great optimism. The...

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait...

          We've been over-run with child-rearing manuals for infants. We've been swamped with advice for relating to teens. But little has been offered to parents whose children are in middle childhood!...

From John Reed, author of the controversial Orwell parody, Snowball's Chance, comes a subversive satire of modern culture, the complete lack thereof, and a lost generation that no one even tried to look...

Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, award-winning author John Dunning triumphantly returns with a riveting new thriller that takes us back to the...

Pour Arlo et ses amis, l'excursion d'été de la troupe de Pine Mountain ne se résume pas à faire du camping et du canoë. Pour eux, c'est surtout l'occasion d'en apprendre plus sur les Longs Bois et leurs...

Après un été plein de rebondissements, Arlo doit se préparer à reprendre les cours, faire face à de nouvelles menaces venues des Longs Bois, et accueillir deux nouveaux rangers dans la Patrouille bleue....

She always spiced things up for him, and when he lost the recipe, he realized that she was the ingredient he needed all along.

‘When my father died, I stayed off school to look after my mother. I was fourteen and was as incapable of looking after her as she was at looking after me. She took to wandering the roads and was soon...

« À chaque génération, il y a une élue. Seule, elle devra affronter les vampires, les démons et les forces de l'ombre. Elle s'appelle Buffy. »Retrouvez l'univers culte de la Tueuse mythique, ses alliés...

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about?...

Dieses Buch ist ein Muss für jeden Erdenbürger und gehört in den Lehrplan jeder Schule! Der Autor beschreibt die derzeit wichtigsten Gefahren, die unsere Erde bedrohen; er prangert die Kurzsichtigkeit...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 5870 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Democracy...

If you truly want relief from anxiety, it's important to understand your feelings and get to the core of what's causing your negative emotions. Doing this allows you to break through your limitations...

In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles.

A radical, experimental work that challenges the boundaries of poetry, philosophy, and science. First published in 1969, this new and expanded edition of John Brockman’s first book, By The Late John Brockman, also...

Let me stay there for a while, while evening Gathers in the sky and daylight lingers on the hills. There's something in the air, something I can't quite see, Hiding behind this stock of images, this language...

From a veteran journalist and former 60 Minutes producer comes an intimate portrait of evangelicals, one of the most influential forces in America today, and the story of how this lapsed believer came...