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No Job for a Man
A Memoir
2022
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A darkly witty, deeply affecting, and finely crafted memoir by the Big Bang Theory andSpeechless star and comedian, John Ross Bowie.From his earliest memories of watching Rhoda with his parents in their tiny Hell’s Kitchen apartment, John knew that he wanted to be an actor. The strange, alternate world of television—where people always cracked the perfect joke, lived in glamorous Upper East Side buildings, and made up immediately after fi...
Forecast for D-day
And the Weatherman behind Ike's Greatest Gamble
2014
EN
Monday, June 5, had long been planned for launching D-day, the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-held Western Europe. Yet the fine weather leading up to the greatest invasion the world would ever see was deteriorating rapidly. Would it hold long enough for the bombers, the massed armada, and the soldiers to secure beachheads in Normandy? That was the question, and it was up to Ike’s chief meteorologist, James Martin Stagg, to give him the answer.On the night of June 4, the wea...
War on the Run
The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Yen
Unabridged
21 hours 3 min
2018
EN
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates ...
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough
Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
2012
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"The stories of the wounded storytellers unfold smoothly on the page, as mesmerizing as any they themselves might have told." — The New York TimesThe Bard meets House, M.D. in this fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works of some the finest writers in the English language. John Ross cheerfully debunks old biographical myths and suggests fresh diagnoses for these writers' real-life medical mysteries....
2013
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Thoroughly revised, with more than thirty new streams and up-to-date maps, this is the best guide to the best trout fishing in America.
- Series -
- Volume 1
2022
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"Who Else Wants To Know How To Quickly & Easily Raise Perfect Healthy Free Range Chickens That Will Lay Delicious Eggs For Years To Come - Guaranteed?"If You're on a Quest to Find the Most up-to-date Information You Can Get Your Hands on, to Ensure Your Chicken Keeping Venture is Morethan Just a Wobbly Tin Hut Slap Together in Your Backyard...with a few miserable chooks huddled in the corner, trying to preserve their body heat...
2009
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This revised and expanded edition takes the reader step by step through the history and techniques of over forty-five print-making methods.From the traditional etching, engraving, lithography, and relief print processes to today’s computer prints, Mylar lithography, copier prints, water-based screen printing, helio-reliefs, and monotypes, The Complete Printmaker covers various aspects of fine printmaking. The book also includes a survey of issues and conte...
2023
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Most of us want to stay healthy, active, and mentally sharp as long as possible. But there's a big problem for the would-be centenarian. The internet is awash with food faddism, anti-aging quackery, and contradictory scientific studies. Where can you go for reliable information about staying active and staving off dementia as long as possible? The Longevity Bible fills this gap. Written by a practicing internist and faculty member of Harvard Medical School, The Longevity Bible is a lively ...
Economic Analysis of China in the World
Six international economists examine China’s growth and global development initiatives
2026
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Since the reforms of 1978, China has experienced an explosion of growth that not only radically changed the country's economic and social conditions, but also the international economic and strategic scenario. For several decades, the Chinese economy grew by an average of 10% annually, an unprecedented phenomenon. Other Asian countries, such as Japan or South Korea, also had periods of rapid growth and transformation, but in the case of China, the enormous size of its economy was added, wh...
2015
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If you're still miserable after years of self-help books, motel seminars, ritzy retreats, motivational post-it notes, yoga posturing and endless Be Happy Social Media Cliches', there's a really good chance you can blame someone else -- your Critical Inner Voice. This short read may help pinpoint the secret to your happiness after you've exhausted all other avenues and still aren't able to levitate like everyone else.It's not like you haven't tried. But until you tame that Critical ...
War on the Run
The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
2009
EN
Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England’s dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates ...
2018
EN
This study explains why the Big Bang was intelligently controlled and the most exquisitely designed phenomena science has ever discovered. How the latest scientific discoveries can shed light on some theological questions, such as: how can God hear an answer the prayers of billions of people all at the same time? Why we cannot understand the Trinity. And how Jesus can pay for everybody's sin in just a few hours while on the cross?











