God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC
10 best books like God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC (Chad Gibbs): Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, Thriving Through Uncertainty: Moving Beyond Fear of the Unknown and Making Change Work for You, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: How My Company and I Transformed Our Purpose, Sparked Innovation, and Grew Profits - By Respecting the Earth, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road, Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes, The Joy of Calvinism: Knowing God's Personal, Unconditional, Irresistible, Unbreakable Love, Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital, Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 1423142578 |
HAND IN HAND presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived,...
| Author | Tama J Kieves |
| ISBN | 0143109537 |
Tama Kieves--inspirational coach, career transition expert and author of Inspired & Unstoppable--guides you through life's uncertain times, helping you discover the blessings within difficulties.
Tama Kieves knows a thing or two about dramatic changes. After graduating from...
Bold’, ‘Shameless’, ‘Siren’ were just some of the (kinder) words used to describe Qandeel Baloch. She embraced these labels and played the coquette, yet dished out biting critiques of some of Pakistan’s most holy cows. Pakistanis snickered at her fake American accent, but marvelled...
| Author | Ray C. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0771007531 |
“America’s greenest CEO” and the hero from the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays.
His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest”:...
| Author | Margaret Roach |
| ISBN | 0446556092 |
Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden." But despite the financial and...
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes
| Author | Peggy Gifford |
| ISBN | 0375945520 |
Here's the second book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart little and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano. It isn't as though Moxy isn’t grateful for her Christmas presents. She is. She’s just not thrilled that she has to write a thank-you...
The Joy of Calvinism: Knowing God's Personal, Unconditional, Irresistible, Unbreakable Love
| Author | Gregory Forster |
| ISBN | 1433528347 |
Real Calvinism is all about joy. But too often the defenders of Calvinism explain it only in highly technical, formulaic, and negative terms. As a result, most people today do not understand what "Calvinism" really is. They are robbed—in whole or in part—of the everyday experience of devotional...
Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me
| Author | Geert Wilders |
| ISBN | 1596987960 |
In the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders' foes, whether murderous jihadists or the multicultural establishment, share the same "strategic objective" - to increase the cost of associating with him beyond that which most people are willing to bear. It is not easy to be Geert Wilders. He spent almost a decade...
The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital
| Author | C. David Heymann |
| ISBN | 0743428579 |
In this definitive portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown, bestselling biographer C. David Heymann chronicles the dinner parties, correspondence, overlappings, and underpinnings of some of the most influential women in Washington's history.
"The Georgetown Ladies'...
Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph
| Author | Terry A. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0345467922 |
"Belongs on the shelf of classics about surviving degradation with dignity and even humor." Time
In March 1985, Terry Anderson was swept up in the violent conflict of a turbulent era. At the mercy of Shiite captors for nearly seven years, he lived in chains, wondering fearfully if each day would...
Oh No She Didn't: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make and How to Avoid Them
| Author | Clinton Kelly |
| ISBN | 1439163162 |
Muffin tops. Scrunchies. Suntan hose. Slut shoes. Visible panty line. Who hasn’t had the unfortunate experience of witnessing—or (gasp!) actually wearing—one of these fashion disasters? The atrocities Clinton Kelly has seen—it’s a surprise he hasn’t gouged out his own eyes....
Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story
| Author | Antonia Felix |
| ISBN | 0310269687 |
As Secretary of State and a close confidant of President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice is the most influential woman in the history of the United States government, and perhaps one of the most famous black women in the world. Her latest stint in Washington, D.C., follows her role as National Security...
| Author | Diana Vreeland |
| ISBN | 0821227890 |
Allure is something that exists, Diana Vreeland said, It's something around you...like a perfume or a scent...It's like memory...it pervades. Diana Vreeland was not only Editor-in-Chief of Vogue for almost a decade, she was also the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute....
| Author | Judith Orloff |
| ISBN | 0446673358 |
For the first time Dr. Judith Orloff, a prominent psychiatrist and psychic, tells her story in this compelling and revelatory book: a study of one woman in exile between two worlds - the psychic and the everyday - and her courageous battle to embrace the gift of Second Sight. "Don't tell anyone about your...
| Author | Nicolas Hénin |
| ISBN | 9385436414 |
For more than a decade, French journalist Nicolas Hénin has reported from the front lines of conflict in the Middle East, much of his time spent in Iraq and Syria. He witnessed the events leading to the rise of Islamic State, and in June 2013, he was himself captured by ISIS and spent ten months in captivity...
| Author | Sam Sifton |
| ISBN | 1400069912 |
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EATER.COM
From one of America’s finest food writers, the former restaurant critic for The New York Times, comes a definitive, timeless guide to Thanksgiving dinner—preparing it, surviving it, and pulling it off in style.
From the planning...
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
| Author | Dominique Moïsi |
| ISBN | 0385523769 |
The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.
In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post–Cold War world would not be primarily...
Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference
| Author | Clay Travis |
| ISBN | 0061431249 |
There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory.
In September 2006, popular...
Meat Market: A Season Inside College Football's No. 1 Recruiting Machine
| Author | Bruce Feldman |
| ISBN | 1933060395 |
In college football circles, the first Wednesday in February is New Year's Day, the Fourth of July, and Christmas all rolled into one. It's payoff time for a year spent screening miles of videotape and probing mountains of data, balancing the promise of a dazzling 40-yard-dash time against the perils...
Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
| Author | Sandra Grimes |
| ISBN | 1591143349 |
Circle of Treason Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA's large stable of Soviet intelligence...
F this Test: Even More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
From the same hilarious wellspring of failure as the bestselling F in Exams and F for Effort comes this all-new collection of inventively wrong—yet totally real—test responses by students who don't know the answer, but come up with something better instead. Featuring crucial academic subjects...
Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ
| Author | Stephen J. Nichols |
| ISBN | 0830828494 |
Jesus is as American as baseball and apple pie.
But how this came to be is a complex story--one that Stephen Nichols tells with care and ease. Beginning with the Puritans, he leads readers through the various cultural epochs of American history, showing at each stage how American notions of...
Conflict Free Living: How to Build Healthy Relationships for Life
| Author | Joyce Meyer |
| ISBN | 1599790629 |
Every person in the world should experience the joy of a peaceful life. But we don’t! We are full of emotional bruises, grudges, stress, and unresolved issues in our relationships. But things do not need to be this way. We can take control of damaging emotional issues and restore peace in our lives,...
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
| Author | Edward Lucas |
| ISBN | 0230606121 |
In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister, Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple parties campaigned for seats in the Duma, the nation’s parliament. The media criticized the government freely. Eight years later as Putin completes his second term as president of Russia and announces...
