Books from Abrams
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Shardik
By Richard AdamsMighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events.
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Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great
By Richard A. BillowsA Companion to the Hellenistic World, Wiley-Blackwell 2003, 196–215 Borza, E. N., “The Natural Resources of Early Macedonia,” in Adams & Borza (1982), 1–20 Borza, E. N., “The Symposium at Alexander's Court,” Archaia Makedonia 3 (1983), ...
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A Whispered Name: A Father Anselm Thriller
By William BrodrickShot at Dawn, J. Putkowski & J. Sykes (Leo Cooper, 1989, New & Revised Edition, 1992) Blindfold and Alone, C. Corns & J. Hughes-Wilson (Cassell, 2001) Military Executions during World War 1, G. Oram (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) Worthless ...
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The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince
By Mary HollingsworthWorking with Ippolito’s letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in an archive in Modena, Italy, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillating tale of this Renaissance cardinal and his road to power and ...
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Photorealism in the Digital Age
By Louis K. Meisel, Elizabeth Katherine May Harris1999. Oil on canvas, 9 x 30" Above English Harbor. 1999. Oil on canvas, 12 x 16" East to Swetes from John Hughes. 1999. Oil on board, 5 x 91⁄2" Photorealism in the Digital Age 484. Blue Pool at Kapalua. 2001. Oil on linen,
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If My Father Loved Me: A Novel
By Rosie Thomas'Sir, Miss Clarkson said we was on the wrong bus, yeah? But it's the only one left now.' 'Just get on it, then, and we'll sort it out later.' Mr Rainbird sighed and consulted his list. 'Have a good week,' I said. 'Thank you, Sadie.
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P.G. Wodehouse in His Own Words
By Barry Day, Tony Ring(Letter to Guy Bolton, 13 July 1946) On the eve of one world war he had made a decisive trip to the US; in the aftermath of another he returned there for good. Apart from Ethel, Bolton was to be the rock on which that last third of his ...
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks
By Peter H. Hassrick, Michael Edward ShapiroThe volume also includes comparative illustrations of works by his contemporaries, and views of the artist painting or adventuring in the west, and shows how Remington was much more than an artist of the American West.
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Elvis Has Left the Building: The Death of the King and the Rise of Punk Rock
By Dylan Jones... Carnaby Street bootlace ties and mail order drapes, thought it was inflammatory that all the punks would be coming in that day on little country buses from the likes of Newton Abbot and Ipplepen and Marlden and Ottery St Mary.
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Work's a Bitch and Then You Make It Work: 6 Steps to Go from Pissed Off to Powerful
By Andrea KayBut many people stay put because they see no way out. In the book Toxic Work, author Barbara Bailey Reinhold reports that “an estimated twenty million Americans are staying in jobs they hate ...
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Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
By Zack Handlen, Emily Todd VanDerWerffThe episode opens brilliantly: Byers, Frohike, and Langly are all apprehended by the police at a warehouse, where a man endlessly screams such lunacies as “They're here!” The twin reveals—the Gunmen are the culprits the police are ...
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Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame
By Emily Herbert... Lady Gaga's best yet, said Michael Hubbard from MusicOHM, “mainly because it seems to contain at least three separate sections, each as catchy as the last.” It had “wicked sex appeal,” according to Monica Herrera of Billboard.
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Feast Your Eyes on Food: An Encyclopedia of More than 1,000 Delicious Things to Eat
By Laura GladwinMOLASSES A thick , dark brown syrup made from boiling sugar cane juice , called black treacle in the United Kingdom . In addition to sweetness , it has a strong caramelized , slightly bitter flavor and is generally used in small ...
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Tiny World Terrariums: A Step-by-Step Guide to Easily Contained Life
By Michelle Inciarrano, Katy MaslowThey show all sorts of tiny world photos labeled with container types, plant names, and more so you can more easily create contained life exactly as you envision it.†? —Wired.com "If you love terrariums as much as we do, this is going ...
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Flung Out of Space: The Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
By Grace EllisThis is also not just the story of a queer woman, but of a queer artist.
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The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
By W. Stephen GilbertCarroll/Dodgson is the third tormented Potter protagonist but the first whose demons are more of psyche than of circumstance, more interior than exterior. The torment is unusually delicately handled but the exigencies of production have ...
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The Icarus Project
By Laura QuimbyI'm going to divide up the jobs, and we need volunteers.” “Ivan couldn't have gone too far without the chopper,” Kyle said. “That's what we're hoping,” West said. “Justice is going to take the chopper up to get an aerial view and see if ...
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Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey
By Andrew Mango... a mandate for Anatolia, and particularly for the provinces claimed by the Armenians. Wilson responded by sending two commissions – one, led by the academic Henry King and the sanitary equipment magnate Charles Crane, to Syria, ...
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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
By Tom RostonIt spawned imitators: A former publishing professional, Joel Dean, and a schoolteacher-turned-cheese seller, Giorgio DeLuca, started their own gourmet food market, Dean & DeLuca, in 1977, on a barren corner of Prince and Greene Streets, ...
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The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living
By Josh DorfmanCLEAN EDGE Cleanedge.com A leading green energy research and consulting firm cofounded by green business gurus Joel Makower and Ron Pernick, CleanEdge provides research and published reports on green energy trends for interested ...