Friday, April 9, 2010

Misc. Non-Fiction

Animals Tales
Peter Allison
Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos  (2007)
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide (2009)   
How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America  (2011)
Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths About Animals (2006) Augustus Brown
All Creatures Great and Small (1972) James Herriot 
Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa (2006)  Marie Javins
Zoo Tails (2001) Oliver Graham-Jones
We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed Their Lives Forever (2009) Benjamin Mee
A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion (2009)
John Rendall
Enslaved by Ducks (2003) Bob Tarte


 
Cultural Issues

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline  (1996) Robert H. Bork  
Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? (2011) Pat Buchanan,


How the Irish Saved Civilization  (The Hinges of History #1) (1995) Thomas Cahill

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012) Ross Douthat

The dumbest generation : how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future (or, don't trust anyone under 30) (2001) Mark Bauerlein.
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture (2017) Anthony Esolen

Indivisible Restoring Faith, Family and Freedom Before It's Too Late (2012)  Jay Richards, James Robison 



Thomas Gagliano The Problem Was Me: How to End Negative Self-Talk and Take Your Life to a New Level  (2011)

Don't Put Your Crap in Your Kid's Diaper: The Clean Up Cost Can Last a Lifetime  (2015)

Film Critics, Criticism and Commentary
COMING SOON
Books on Cinema
Books about Comedy, Comedy Writing and Silent Movies
Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners (2009) Peter E. Dans
www.decentfilms.com Steven D. Greydanus 
Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith (2004)  Catherine M. Barsotti
Roger Ebert
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary  (1994)
Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film  (1996)
Ebert's "Bigger" Little Movie Glossary  (1999)
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie  (2000)
The Great Movies  (2002)
The Great Movies II  (2005)
Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert (2006)
Your Movie Sucks  (2007)
The Great Movies III  (2010)
Life Itself (2011)
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck  (2012)
Robert Johnston
Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline (Cultural Exegesis) (2007)
Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Engaging Culture) (2000) Robert K. Johnston
Leonard Maltin
The Disney Films  (1973)
The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang  (1979)
Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Revised and Updated  (1980)
Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide (2005)
Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen (2010)
Catholics in the Movies (2007) Colleen McDannell
Barbara Nicolosi-
Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture (2005)
Through a Screen Darkly (2007) Jeffery Overstreet
The Film Buff's Bucket List  (2016) Chris Stuckmann,
For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts (2010) W. David O. Taylor (Editor)
Travel
Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail  (1997)
In a Sunburned Country  (2000)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid  (2006)
Will Ferguson
Why I Hate Canadians (1997)
I Was a Teenage Katima-Victim! (1998)
Hokkaido Highway Blues (1998), republished in 2005 as Hitching Rides with Buddha
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan (1998)
Bastards and Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders, Past and Present (1999)
Canadian History for Dummies (2000, revised 2005)
Generica (2001), winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, later republished as Happiness™
How to Be a Canadian (2001), cowritten with Ian Ferguson
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada (2004), winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour (editor) (2006)
Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet (2009), winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
Coal Dust Kisses: A Christmas Memoir (2010)
Canadian Pie (2011)
Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa (2015)
Peter Jenkins
The Walk West (1981)
Journey into China (1982)
The Tennessee Sampler (1985)
Across China (1986)
The Road Unseen (1987)
Close Friends (1989)
Along the Edge of America (1995)
The Untamed Coast (1995)
Looking for Alaska (2001)
Charles Kuralt 
On the Road with Charles Kuralt  (1985)
Charles Kuralt's America (1995)
Food
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (2004) Steve Almond
You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life (2004) Gillian McKeith
Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life (2010) Leo Patalinghug
SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life( 2003) Steven G. Pratt and Kathy Matthews
Eat This Not That! 2010: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution (2007)  David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding
Misc
Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (1999) Jan Bondeson 
Kissing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About One of Life's Sweetest Pleasures (2006)
Andréa Demirjian        
Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point( 2000).. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-31696-2.
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)
Outliers (2008)
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures(2009)
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants( 2013)
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1993) Sherwin B. Nuland

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) Mary Roach






 
 

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