J M : 4298 books

In Margaret Ogilvy, author J. M. Barrie (today best remembered for his enduring children's classic Peter Pan) presents a loving, detailed portrait of his mother. As a child, Margaret had been forced to become the "woman of the house" when she was only eight years old, filling in as the household...

Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio...

Once again the US Government was shutdown because our elected officials didn't do their job, and we could go through it all over again a few months from now. If we pulled a stunt like that on our jobs we'd get our paychecks cut, if we didn't just get fired. Perhaps we need to cut our elected officials'...

This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decade leading up to the Civil War. Through the close reading of diverse sources ranging from government...

STENDHAL SYNDROME: Feelings of increased heart rate, dizziness, disorientation, amnesia, hallucinations etc. in response to immense beauty present in either artistic works or the natural world. A collection of poems, short stories, lists and rants by J. M. Donellan, author of Killing Adonis,...

This small book is most useful. The Core Financial Principles in a nutshell. A rigorous approach to fundamental Ideas, avoiding unnecessary complications Highly convenient for those who: - Already know about these matters, but they would like to get it refreshed and keep a consulting...

The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland...

On Taurus, there's only one good way to die. On the bullfighting planet of Taurus, in the far distant future, a genetically-engineered race of half-man, half-bull stages ritual blood sacrifices to the gods—human viewers light-years away. Vizzer, the high priest who presides over the daily...

In this little volume will be found the whole of the elements of astrology, and the entire ground-work of those stupendous tomes in folio and quarto on the same subject, which were produced in myriads during the 16th and 17th centuries, for the due mystification of the then world. The present volume...

The Swedish Academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Clézio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Clézio's "definitive breakthrough as a novelist." Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Académie Française, was translated into twenty-three languages,...

Malawi, established as the British protectorate of Nyasaland in 1891, gained its independence in 1964 and moved immediately into three decades of one-party rule. Since the mid-1990s, however, the country has held multi-party elections, as directed by its constitution, and President Bingu wa Mutharika...

J.M. Synge was a tireless traveller who, while celebrating the beauties of the Irish landscape, never flinched from describing the harsh, unromantic reality of rural life. Capturing the embers of a dying culture, the great playwright walks, drinks and talks with a rich assortment of country...

A man pens a note to his wife while stranded in the desert. A man tries to kill a mouse sent from hell. A man finally expresses how he feels to his family in the worst way imaginable. These stories and more are included in J.M. Barber's exciting collection of short stories.

Life is a journey back to self. As Grace and Dylan openly come together to experience a poetic love, overcoming the realities of modern single life with kids and exposing their hearts in search for truth... Grace discovers the complexity and beauty of her being, as she chooses wholeness over perfection.