R James: 1068 books
Into the Magic Shop
A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a...
by Bernard W. Bell, Emily R. Grosholz, James B. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum of race, the issue of gender equality, and the perplexities of pan-Africanism.
by James R. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Dixie Highway, once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, was part of an improved network of roads traversing the landscape of 10 states. A product of the Good Roads Movement of the early 20th century, construction on the highway in Illinois took place from 1916 to 1921. When completed in 1921,...
Follow the Trend
The Story of a Life and Observations from Living It
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The time spent completing this book was so enjoyable because during those thinking and writing hours, I was able to awaken many, many memories from my childhood and from later years as I grew into the person I have become. There are times when awakened memories elevate our spirits during rough periods,...
by James R. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
"Gaines has a deft understanding of the Washington-Lafayette relationship ... [and] a knack for wielding substantial research with aplomb."—San Francisco Chronicle
This book tells the story of the French and American Revolutions in a single, thrilling narrative that shows just how...
International Folkloristics
Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its...
by James R. Thursfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Police are still known in Britain as “bobbies” and in Ireland as “Peelers,” named after the man who established them: Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). The extraordinary life and career of the Prime Minister who built the British Conservative Party is vividly captured by one of England’s most distinguished historians.
The Chicago Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...
by Kwen D. Griffeth, C. Wayne Winkle, Tierney James
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2019
Tales From Big Country is a wild west thrill ride brought to you by USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon best-selling authors!
If you like westerns, historical fiction and action packed adventures, look no further! This thirteen-story collection, featuring work by national and international...
by LCDR James R. Stobie
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the air and naval forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) recorded the day as “a date which will live in infamy” in his speech to a joint session of Congress....
Potsdam Mission
Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Recently declassified information makes it possible for the first time to tell part of the story behind the Cold War intelligence operations of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) to the Commander of the Soviet Army in Communist East Germany.Intelligence collection often led to dangerous encounters...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIII
Learning and Literature in the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The alluring dream of Charles the Great has vanished; after his death no temporal prince was found capable of carrying on his work, and it fell to ruins. Nevertheless, the root idea which had inspired him still persisted: the idea of the unity of the Christian world, bound together and grouped round...
Spitfire Wingman from Tennessee
my love affair with flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
SPITFIRE WINGMAN is the whole-life memoir of USAF Col. Jim Haun, who flew nearly every US military aircraft from 1939 to 1965, including fighters, bombers, giant cargo ships, and the T-33 jet trainer. He flew Spitfires over England and France, commanded a squadron through the Berlin Airlift, was CO of...
Getting the Reformation Wrong
Correcting Some Misunderstandings
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
*Institutes of the Christian Religion.*Getting the Reformation Wrong:
places the Reformation in the context of medieval and Renaissance reform efforts
analyzes conflicts among the Reformers
sola fide**sola Scriptura
examines how the Anabaptist movement fits in with the magisterial Reformation
critiques...