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4 reviews

Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., 1993

Me, Myself, and Everyman
Everyman could be my next door neighbor. Seriously. He could be virtually anyone. This character appears on every television show, every comic strip, and in almost every movie. Why? Because the character "Everyman" IS every man. The trials and tribulations of Everyman are the trials and tribulations of every man. It's that simple. Read this small tome and learn about the human condition. See ...

On the Edge: My Story
Richard Hammond

Orion Publishing, 2008

From the first ridiculous stunts on his tricycle to his increasing and near obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of gas, this is the high-octane life of TV personality Richard Hammond. A lively and intelligent communicator, TV soon beckoned for Hammond. He became one of the daredevil trio—along with Jeremy Clarkson and James May—who have made an enormous, world-wide success of the revamped BBC TV program Top Gear . Hammond ...

The Mechanic's Tale: Life in the Pit-Lanes of Formula One

17 reviews
Steve Matchett

Orion Publishing, 2000

How insightful
I flew through this book. I couldnt get enough. The perfect balance between technical descriptions and storyline kept me glued to the book. If you have a remote interest in racing of any kind this is a must read.

Richard Hammond's Car Confidential: The Odd, the Mad, the Bad and the Curious

3 reviews
Richard Hammond

Orion Publishing, 2007

The Hamster Hits a Home Run!
Richard Hammond, aka "The Hamster" brings his own special brand of silly to this overview of automobile excess. Complete with photos and cartoon drawings, he reviews his favorites, disses his least liked, and shows us what he has found to be the most interesting things in the auto world. This is a book that deserves a place in any book collection. (Personally, The Hamster and the whole "Top Gear" ...

The Use of the Self

4 reviews
F.M. Alexander

Orion Publishing, 2001

a genuine classic
Although Alexander's writing style is spectacularly convoluted by today's standards, anyone who patiently reads through this book will come to appreciate what a gem it is! With this work, Alexander presented an explicit technology by which you can gain access to your unconscious processes, and program them effectively. In one of the most important works of the twentieth century, Alexander here ...

On the Edge: My Story

3 reviews
Richard Hammond

Orion Publishing, 2008

How love really can conquer all.
I was expecting an auto-biography; instead, I found a compelling account of suffering a brain injury, recovering from that injury, and - most movingly of all - living with and loving someone with a brain injury. The searing honesty, and the often black humour, shown by both Richard and Mindy Hammond shows that theirs is a marriage that can survive anything life throws at it. This book ultimately ...

What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from Twelve Leading Historians (Phoenix Paperback Series)

5 reviews

Orion Publishing, 2005

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history ,is the most important lesson that history has to teach us ."
There are several similar books on Alternate History,and this is as good as any of them. Many of them cover the same event and write an alternate version to what happened.The Editor suggests that the first rule for "What If " history-writing should be to keep it as believable as possible;and that we can untune one string,but not the whole violin. One of the most popular events that writers ...

World as Will & Idea (Everyman's Library (Paper))

5 reviews
Arthur Schopenhauer

Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., 1995

the futility of willing
For someone with no formal instruction in philosophy this is a very good book to begin with. Schopenhauer avoids the use of pretensious "philosophical" jargon and writes in a predominantly literary fashion. The main value in this book is its ideas. Its basic premis is simple, yet the range of topics that Schopenhauer delivers treatises on is quite astounding - art, gambling, contract theory, ...