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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the...

Few people know that national pie champion Francine Bryson got her start on the cooking contest circuit at age sixteen with a savory stuffed pork loin-that won first place. In Country Cooking from a Redneck Kitchen, Francine invites you into her home to share recipes for everything that graces her Southern table: chicken dinners, savory pies, Sunday suppers to serve the preacher, make-and-take casseroles, dips and other redneck whatnots, backy...

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A taut, pacy thriller'. Bomb disposal expert Greg Stevens' past returns to haunt him when he is blackmailed into investigating powerful Mafioso oligarch Bogdan Katchenko in Kiev, Ukraine. Greg nearly died twenty years earlier in Ulster - now he faces not only danger to his own and his family's lives - but a threat to millions from a 9/11 PLUS terrorist attack. 'Menacing'. In Kiev, he teams up with US Homeland Security agent Sean O'Neill - an e...

National pie champion, mom, homemaker, and self-proclaimed redneck, Francine Bryson won the hearts of bakers everywhere when she appeared on CBS's The American Baking Competition and went on to become a finalist on the show. Known for her down-home Southern charm and sass (and for successfully pairing chocolate and peanut butter with bacon), Francine now shares her sought-after recipes and tips in her very first baking book. "Here are the reci...

Cosa significava crescere nell'America degli anni Cinquanta? A raccontarcelo è Bill Bryson che col suo tono scanzonato ha il dono di saper trasformare un'infanzia felicemente normale in un percorso di formazione irto di ostacoli tragici e spassosi. Così, la tranquilla cittadina di Des Moines, persa nelle grandi pianure del Midwest, dove è cresciuto l'autore, diventa l'osservatorio privilegiato per raccontare l'involontario umorismo di un'Ameri...

One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: "English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where 'cleave' can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together, where the simple word 'set' has 126 different meanings as a ver...

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Una città o l'altra" è un diario di viaggio. L'autore, in balia di autisti dall'istinto omicida e di albergatori stravaganti, attraversa da Nord a Sud l'Europa partendo da Hammerfest, la città più settentrionale del mondo, per arrivare fino a Istanbul, alle porte dell'Oriente. In mezzo, per fissare ognuna delle tappe successive, sul taccuino del viaggiatore finiscono inedite istantanee di alcune tra le più suggestive città d'Europa, scorci di ...

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Read by the authorNine CDs, 10 hoursJust in time for the 2000 Olympics-the bestselling quthor of A Walk in the Woods takes listeners on a truly outrageous tour Down Under.Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail. Nonetheless, Bryson has on several occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant (up to 220, 000 species of the...

Based on their New York Times bestselling book No-Drama Discipline, internationally acclaimed neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and brain-based parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, have created a guide to manage and reduce drama in your interactions with your kids, and even decrease the amount of time you spend having to discipline.The goal is simple: discipline less on autopilot by developing a set of principles and strategies based...

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century.

One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, answer--the oldest, biggest questions ever posed about the universe, everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Abridged. 5 CDs.

Megan Bryson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. With his instinct for the funny and quirky, and his eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and ...

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the...

Was John Milton-possibly the most famous 'Christian' poet in English literary history-an atheist? Among the author's goals in The Atheist Milton is to account for tensions over the idea of God which, in Bryson's view, go all the way back to Milton's earliest poetry. In this study, he argues such tensions are central to Milton's poetry-and to any attempt to understand that poetry on its own terms.