Robert Sullivan

The author dispenses rat facts and rat stories, looking into the history of rats, and describes how, with the aid of a notebook and night-vision gear, he sat nightly in a garbage-filled alley getting to know the wild city rat.

Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

Rats

Life Books

Several true stories of crime and punishment, lawlessness and justice, are vividly retold, including the Lindberg Kidnapping and John F. Kennedy's assassination.

The Most Notorious Crimes in American History

Randall Mason

A photographic survey of North Brother Island, an uninhabited island of ruins in New York City that was once home to a variety of institutional uses, including a quarantine hospital and juvenile drug treatment center.

The Last Unknown Place in New York City

North Brother Island

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan delves into this first Middle America, digging for a glorious, heroic past in the urban, suburban, and sometimes even rural landscape of today. Sullivan's history is personal, anecdotal, experiential. He visits the down-home reenactment of the crossing of the Delaware, which has taken place each year for the past half century, and uncovers the fact behind the myth. He camps in New Jersey backyards, hikes through lost "mountains," and wrecks his back—then evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian's failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment; a tattoo artist's more successful use of a colonial submarine, which resulted in his 2007 arrest by the New York City police and the FBI; and the life of Philip Freneau, the first (and not great) poet of American independence, who died in a swamp in the snow. Like an almanac, My American Revolution moves through the calendar of American independence with the eternally charming Robert Sullivan as our guide. This is a fiercely individual and often hilarious journey; in the process of making our revolution his, Sullivan shows us how alive our own history is, right under our noses.

A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds

My American Revolution

Set hundreds of years in the future, "The Lady Who Loved Lightning" follows the characters of "Paradise Lost" as they journey out into a mostly deserted galaxy, looking for any life anywhere. When Walt and Chely find a new planet very far away with vegetation only, plans are made to develop the new world as they see fit, including procuring a new moon (as pictured on the back cover). New characters and old populate this fourth book in the Carolyn & Brandy series, which also focuses on Carolyn's relationship with her boyfriend John, and how she faces the real possibility she may very well have lost him forever. The two previous entries in this series are "Paradise Regained" and "Paradise Lost;" the third, "A World Full of Lobsters," is a manga that's currently stuck in preproduction. The first two can be found exclusively on amazon.com.

A Novel

The Lady Who Loved Lightning

A book full of pictures and events of the September 11, 2001 bombing of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in the state of Pennsylvania.

America Remembers September 11, 2001

One Nation

"The story of the trial of America's most famous murderess"--Cover, Penguin Books ed.

Goodbye Lizzie Borden

Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Sullivan's third book of poems, Star Waka, came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka, or the ocean. Within these parameters, and in 2001 lines, Sullivan creates 100 poems that, he says, themselves function like a waka: 'members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes - it is subject to the laws of nature'.

Star Waka

Chronicles the author's two years spent with the Makah Indians as they prepared for their first whale hunt since the 1920s, describing their struggles against poverty and alcoholism, and their hope for success despite the obstacles.

How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could

A Whale Hunt

Whetu Moana is the first anthology of contemporary Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians. It collects poems written over the last twenty years from more than 60 poets in Aotearoa, Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue and Rotuma. Well-known poets like Hone Tuwhare, Alistair Campbell and Haunani-Kay Trask are joined by talented young voices, the poets appearing in alphabetical order in a way that presents both an overall Polynesian identity and a focus on individual style. Traditional laments mix with street-smart rap rhythms; images of seascapes and landscapes mingle with shots of urban slums. Political anger is a powerful force in these poems but many are personal and particular. Whetu Moana reveals an active, changing, varied, creative scene, which confronts both a complex colonial past and a fast-moving global present with energy, courage and vitality.

An Anthology of Polynesian Poetry

Whetu Moana

James Palmer

Richard Smardon

Dean Apostol

Martin Pasqualetti

Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category) Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category) The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future. It focuses attention, for the first time, on the unique challenges solar, wind, and geothermal energy will create for landscape protection, planning, design, and management. Topics addressed include: Policies aimed at managing scenic impacts from renewable energy development and their social acceptance within North America, Europe and Australia Visual characteristics of energy facilities, including the design and planning techniques for avoiding or mitigating impacts or improving visual fit Methods of assessing visual impacts or energy projects and the best practices for creating and using visual simulations Policy recommendations for political and regulatory bodies. A comprehensive and practical book, The Renewable Energy Landscape is an essential resource for those engaged in planning, designing, or regulating the impacts of these new, critical energy sources, as well as a resource for communities that may be facing the prospect of development in their local landscape.

Preserving Scenic Values in our Sustainable Future

The Renewable Energy Landscape

A passionate team of Bigfoot enthusiasts is bringing you eight brand new and true Bigfoot stories that have never been covered before! Find out what happens when an investigative journalist accidentally ends up on a tiny, Bigfoot-infested island. Immerse yourself in the history of a once beautiful resort that had to close after decades of Bigfoot encounters. Explore a journal entry of a Polish woodsman that slowly realizes that what he saw in a deep forest has changed him forever. Read about methods that modern Bigfoot surveillance groups use to track the ever-evasive legend. See what happens when a Bigfoot finds an injured little girl and decides to save her life. All of these gripping stories and many more await you in Robert Sullivan's: BIGFOOT AMONG US! Note: This is the second book of the ongoing TRUE AND NEW BIGFOOT series, by Robert Sullivan. Visit the author's page to see all of them!

TRUE and NEW Bigfoot Encounters Exposed

Bigfoot Among Us

For the Use of Schools, and for General Reference; with the Principles of Pronunciation, Orthography, and Etymology, Fully Explained and Practically Illustrated; to which is Added, a Concise Classical Dictionary ...

A Dictionary of the English Language

Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the Principles of Classification & Comparison. With...an Introduction to Astronomy

Geography Generalized

Some people are just naturally good at not getting rich. They didn't buy Microsoft when a friend mentioned that he was helping start up a new software company. They sold their apartment in Manhattan for a song in the seventies, instinctively believing the real estate market would never, ever come back. These people have built-in wealth prevention systems that steer them safely away from big money even in the most wealth-rich intersections of their lives. In this book, Robert Sullivan, an expert in the art of not getting rich and staying that way, shows us some simple, non-time consuming ways to cultivate a basic day-to-day attitude that will lead to not getting rich, as well as a few long-term strategies that will help you stay that way. For instance, a good well-rounded education is a must if you are planning on working your entire life and ending up with little or nothing. Choose a field of study that will be personally rewarding but has no apparent application in the real world, such as medieval literature or traditional music. And by all means choose an investment strategy that will definitely not get you rich, such as following the herd. Along the way, spend your money unwisely, read novels and books (a habit that will greatly aid you in your pursuit to not be rich), marry for love, and waste otherwise money-making hours throwing a Frisbee in the park or even playing with your kids, becoming the kind of role model that will never be featured on Forbes's list of the wealthiest people in the world. Sharp, funny, and ultimately comforting, How Not to Get Rich is a guide to happiness without wealth, not that the author wouldn't mind a little wealth with his happiness. How Not to Get Rich is probably not worth the price, but what is?

Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad

How Not to Get Rich

With Maps and Illustrations

Geography Generalised; Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the Principles of Classification and Comparison

Christopher Caudwell

A New York Times Editors' Choice Most readers think they know Henry David Thoreau: the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods. In this delightfully engaging book, Robert Sullivan gives us the Thoreau we don't know: the gregarious adventurer, the guy who liked to go camping with friends (even if they sometimes accidentally burned the woods down). Here is no lonely eccentric but a man who danced and sang, who worked throughout his short life at the family pencil-making business, who moved into his parents' house after leaving Walden Pond and always paid his father rent. Passionate yet whimsical, The Thoreau You Don't Know asks us to cast off our misconceptions as we reexamine our everyday relationship with the natural world and one another.

The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around

The Thoreau You Don't Know

Tony Bennett

The legendary singer reflects on his career, the recurring themes in his life, and the inspiration that shapes his music and his art, in a musical memoir enhanced by reproductions of his own artwork and a CD containing some of the author's favorite songs.

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