E James: 987 books
From Your Loving Son
Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
War was no stranger to the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts. A small farming community at the outbreak of the Civil War, Sudbury stood ready to support the cause of the Union. Uriah and Mary Moore, a local farmer and his wife, parents of ten children, sent four sons off to fight for the Union. George...
John Quincy Adams
Policymaker for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
This new book focuses on John Quincy Adams's extensive role in foreign policy, including his years as secretary of state and as president. Brief but thorough, John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union analyzes Adams's foreign policy accomplishments during key moments in American history, including...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
Smash Hits: The 100 Songs That Defined America
The 100 Songs That Defined America
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
We are what we listen to. That's the premise of this study of 100 songs that have shaped and defined the American experience, from the Colonial period to the present.
• Takes an entertaining approach to understanding the cultural tides in American history
• Covers a wide range of...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
The Best Short Stories - 6
Best Authors - Best stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
THE BEST SHORT STORY - 6
Best Authors - Best stories
Wait, What?
And Life's Other Essential Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
New York Times Bestseller
“What, What? is a welcome—and joyful—reminder that true wisdom comes from asking the right questions. Should you read this book? Absolutely.”
** ****—**Clayton Christensen, bestselling author of How Will You Measure Your Life?
Based on the...
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
by James E. Campbell, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Anyone who teaches others, including parents, can benefit from reading this book. Teachers play a pivotal roll in the education of children and adults. There are basic principles of living that could be taught in the classroom that would not take much time from teachers; in fact, I expect that because...
Teachers and Mental Health
The Art of Accurate Speech and Other Ways to Help Students (Children) Not Become Psychiatric Patients.
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Teachers and Mental Health is my attempt to teach the teachers of children (teachers and parents) some of what I have learned over 40 years of doing therapy, about the rather simple, but apparently poorly understood factors in childhood thinking that go on to create a lot of mental distress by adulthood....
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
by James E. Wisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Conryu has his life all figured out.
At least until the final day of school arrives and with it the annual wizard’s test.
When Conryu passes the test, no one can believe it since everyone knows boys can’t do magic.
Suddenly thrust into a world of magic and danger, Conryu must...