James E : 987 books
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Called to Jackson, Mississippi: the Last Bastion of Segregation
A Historical Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Jackson, Mississippi, was the last place Dr. Brandon Sparkman would have chosen to work back in 1970. But an anonymous, threatening letter lured him there. In this memoir and historical documentary, Sparkman narrates what it was like to try to ensure a quality education for all students in Jackson...
by James E. Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
"THE LOST SHEPHERDS OF PARADISE" How to live well Retire at 52 Have excellent health care Be at peace with the world Eliminate inflation Shrink Government Politicians cringe at the prospects of a well-educated and politically informed public. "THE LOST SHEPHERDS OF PARADISE" is...
by James E. Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is certainly better known as North Korea, has some difficulty in living up to its billing. There is cause to question the label of democracy and also whether the people come first. But the rest of the world is too busy concentrating on the more immanent...
Just Food
Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you?
JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation (Houghton...
How to Resolve Conflict
A Practical Mediation Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A guide to the practice of mediation as a means of resolving conflict, this short how-to manual includes all the resources needed to teach and train mediators in the skills of conflict resolution. It explains the conceptual framework of conflict and peacemaking, the stages and steps of the mediation...
by James E. Talmage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The scope of the subject presented in this work is expressed on the title page. It will be readily seen that the author has departed from the course usually followed by writers on the Life of Jesus Christ, which course, as a rule, begins with the birth of Mary's Babe and ends with the ascension of the...
Peace in the Red Rock Valley
....As Long as Them Guns Hang There
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2001
SURVIVAL
It's true!There are no great people. There are only great challenges that some ordinary people must rise to meet. Much has been written about those individuals who have risen to meet such challenges. Their stories fascinate us because we love a winner, a survivor, a hero.
PEACE...