James B : 537 books
Drunk Driving
An American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.
THE WESTERN ROMANCE BOOK VOL. III
16 TIMELESS WESTERN ROMANCE STORIES
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
This volume includes 16 Classic Western Romance Stories by American authors:
THE GIRL FROM MONTANA BY GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS BY GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
THE MAN OF THE DESERT BY GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
RIDGWAY OF MONTANA BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE...
CONNIE MORGAN IN ALASKA (Illustrated Edition)
An Exciting Tale of Adventure in the Untamed and Unforgivable Snowy Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This eBook edition of "CONNIE MORGAN IN ALASKA (Illustrated Edition)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "Connie Morgan, or as he is affectionately called by the big, bearded men of the Yukon, Sam Morgan's boy, now...
by James B. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Gun-Brand” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Seated upon a thick, burlap-covered bale of freight—a "piece," in the parlance of the North—Chloe Elliston idly watched the loading of the scows....
Connie Morgan in Alaska (Illustrated)
An Exciting Tale of Adventure in the Untamed and Unforgivable Snowy Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Connie Morgan in Alaska" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "Connie Morgan, or as he is affectionately called by the big, bearded men of the Yukon, Sam Morgan's boy, now owns one of the crack dog teams...
by James B. Riverton
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Adventures of John L. Steelhard, “A ripping saga of tantalizing adventure!” From the special secret military operations in the jungles of Laos, during the Vietnam War, to air combat in the soaring skies over North Vietnam. The dreaded Chinese Death Pit, where P.O.W.'s must fight to the death...
Orient Express
A Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
When the fabled Orient-Express train, which had carried the rich and the famous (as well as some highly suspicious characters) across Europe in superb style for nearly a century, was taken out of service in 1977, James B. Sherwood bought two of its 1920s luxury sleeping cars at auction. He then spent...
Stateville
The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the...
Lamar Archaeology
Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in...
Irish Migrants in New Communities
Seeking the Fair Land?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history...
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain
The Curtis Brown Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
In his second book, Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain, James B. Golden introduces the world to Curtis Brown, a troubled teen struggling with growing up Black and male in America. The collection was composed over several seasons that Golden worked in a rehabilitation setting with boys like Curtis. The poems...
Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American...
Busting the Mob
The United States v. Cosa Nostra
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services...
by James B. Kaler
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Little Book of Stars answers, in the clearest language, the questions anyone might have about our heavenly canopy. How are stars born? How do they die? Why do they shine? How long do they shine? Is our star, the Sun, dying? How can you tell time from the stars? Or navigate? What are the measures...