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“bruce weber”

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  • The Most Interesting Man in the World

    by Bruce Weber ...
    We all have our heroes. While growing up we try to emulate them, and they are beacons we strive to follow, hoping that someday we can shine as brightly as they did.As time passes, the veil of illusion falls slowly from our eyes and, as happens to the characters in these stories, our admiration for them gradually fades as we learn of their faults and frailties, and find that in many ways they are ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Listener

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Jack Larner retaliates violently against a sadistic prison guard and is cast into solitary confinement. In the darkness and isolation of his tiny cell, he undergoes a bizarre and inexplicable transformation. When he emerges he appears quite normal, but with one exception: when in Larner's presence, no one can tell him a lie.Larner ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As They See 'Em

    A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Named One of the Best Baseball Books Ever Written by EsquireAn insider’s look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America’s favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true.Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life Is a Wheel

    Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for The New York Times, bicycled across the country, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded. Life Is a Wheel is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind

    Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn

    by John Prebble, Bruce Weber ...
    Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics. This is the only full biography of Mitchell, and it should be of considerable interest to biophysicists, biochemists, and physicians and researchers focusing on metabolism, as well as historians of ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

    Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies

    Edited by Wu JunJie, Paul Barkley, Bruce Weber ...
    Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    As They See 'Em

    A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Narrated by Charley Steiner ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America's favorite pastime is conducted in a manner ... Read more

    $34.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Sea to Sea Ride

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    by Riaan Manser ...
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