A love letter to New York Mets fandom— the triumphs, the heartbreak, and everything in between Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring every game he watched, one which persisted as Roberts rose through the ranks at WFAN. Taken together, those scorebooks form a living, breathing Mets...

This classic gives the account of several people who were present during the great Welsh Revival at the turn of the 20th century. This revival came just before the famed Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles, California. In fact, Frank Bartleman (of Azusa) corresponded with Evan Roberts (of Wales) and requested prayer for revival. This edition includes: Active Table of Contents Bonus article following the revival by H. Elvet Lewis

How do political parties integrate propaganda into ordinary citizens' lives? After coming into power in 1948, the communist Hungarian Workers' Party (MDP) drew on tried-and-true Soviet methods of political outreach, mobilizing a network of agitators to circulate communist ideology and report their observations back to party leadership. These agitators produced maps, searched homes, and taught "petty bourgeois" self-criticism and "party-conform" love and hate.Making the Hungaria...

From the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, the Capetian House of Anjou was one of Europe's most significant ruling dynasties, with dominions extending across the continent from the French province that gave them their name to the kingdoms of Hungary and Poland. The House of Anjou was the tie that bound together these diverse countries with varying levels of development, divergent institutions, and far-flung geographies.The Angevins in Hungary 1301–1395 traces the lives ...

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent.Chapters analyze the ways in which “Nature” became a discursive site where theories of race and belonging, adaptation and environment, and the uses of literary and pictorial representation were being renegotiat...

After The Revolution is a unique blend of military futurism, based on the author’s personal experience in actual conflict zones.Robert Evans offers both utopian and dystopian visions of a post-collapse USA.Evans is an investigative journalist and hosts a wildly popular podcasts on the I Heart Radio network (including Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen here) that combined have had 45.5 million monthly listeners. He also has hundreds of thousands of fo...

Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture i...

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings hi...

Celebrity photographer Robert Evans shares his secrets to securing spectacular wedding photography, from engagement to happily ever after. Award-winning photographer Robert Evans has photographed some of the biggest weddings of the past two decades and counts A-list celebrities and CEOs among his personal client list. With his first book, he takes engaged couples behind the lens and shares his advice learned from 25 years of photographing weddings all around the world. His practical tips a...

In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between “gangs” of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and the conviction that things are only going to get worse, and more...

From the legendary producer and author of The Kid Stays in the Picture—one of the greatest Hollywood memoirs ever written—comes a long-awaited second work with all the elements of a star-studded blockbuster: glamour and conflict, giddy highs and near-fatal lows, struggle and perseverance, tragedy and triumph.

When Mored, a young boy living in the not-so-distant future, activates a university research group's time machine without permission, he travels back nearly two centuries to 1869......inside the body of a farm boy!What lessons can a city boy from the future learn from sharing the mind of a farm boy in the past while also coping with river pirates and shotgun weddings?