J John: 1441 books
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG
By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings")
By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM...
The Last Week
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events...
The First Paul
Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to culture...
A Shower of Stars
The Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Since 1941 the Medal of Honor has been more often awarded to dead than to living men. Of all the medals issues by the United States Government, this singular medal has had a particularly solemn glory attached to its meaning. But a look at its history reveals that, from its inception, it was steeped in...
Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo
A Rare Photographic History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Winner of the Bronze Medal for Science in the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsIn this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickering’s extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the authors now present the rest of the Golden Age of US manned...
by John J. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Ty Hardin is very good with a gun. Working alone, Ty recovers some cattle from a gang of herd-cutters. Ty then decides to use his skill with a gun on the side of law and order. Ty becomes a town marshal, a bounty hunter, and town marshal again. When Ty is told he has cancer he decides to go to California...
Launch
Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills—problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination—that will help them shape the world’s future … our future. In LAUNCH, John Spencer and A.J. Juliani provide a process...
Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A Beginners Guide is written for anyone who faces the challenge of reading Philosophical Investigations. John J. Ross guides the reader slowly through each relevant section of text, explaining and elaborating key ideas, and providing the philosophical...
Classic Tales of Horror
A Collection of the Greatest Horror Tales of All-Time: At the Mountains of Madness, Carmilla, The Great God Pan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, The Lair of the White Worm, The Masque of the Red Death, The Vampyre
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Ranging from the macabre to the supernatural, the collection of stories found in Classic Tales of Horror contains some of the most influential horror and dark fiction books of all-time.
Included in this classic horror anthology are:
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lair...
by John J. Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
London’s most exclusive neighborhoods sit on sites of the some of the most sinister and scandalous crimes in British history.
Stories of violent death will always hold us in a grim but thrilling grip. The dreadful crimes related in Foul Deeds in Kensington & Chelsea are shocking examples...
Pragmatic Fashions
Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a...
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
Or, How Not to Learn from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn
From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished”...
After the Dream
Black and White Southerners since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech,...
After Hope and Change
The 2012 Elections and American Politics, Post 2014 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Now updated to include the 2014 midterms and previewing the coming 2016 election cycle, After Hope and Change provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As they have for...