James J: 962 books
Scottish Philosophy in America
Library of Scottish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The Scottish Enlightenment provided the fledgling United States of America and its emerging universities with a philosophical orientation. For a hundred years or more, Scottish philosophers were both taught and emulated by professors at Princeton, Harvard and Yale, as well as newly founded colleges...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
The View from the Helm
Leading the American University during an Era of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadt— who led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996— presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the country. His presidency...
by James J. Heckman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today....
A Quick Guide to Safely Sleeping with Your Baby
A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping: Whether you do it occasionally or every night, do it safely
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide is your guide to understanding how to make nighttimes with your baby safe, fun and relaxing! Written by James McKenna, the world's authority on co-sleeping.
by James J Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
James John Davies was born in Tredegar, Wales, before emigrating with his parents to the United States in 1881 at the age of eight. Apprenticed as a puddler's assistant in a steel mill thereby acquiring his nickname. After stints as City Clerk in Elwood, Indiana, and Recorder of Madison County, Indiana...
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
A Catholic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex bioethical topics that confront contemporary society. Authors James Walter and Thomas Shannon offer a fresh analysis from...
by James J. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2000
It is one of the most perplexing paradoxes of modern life. As technology dramatically expands our ways of communicating, loneliness has become one of the leading causes of premature death in all technologically advanced nations. The medical toll is made heavier by powerful social forces-school failure,...
Catholic Churchmen in Science
Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who Were Among the Great Founders in Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York.
Catholic Churchmen in Science
Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who Were Among the Great Founders in Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York.
C.M.A.C.
A Vietnam Era Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
C.M.A.C., A Vietnam Era Trilogy, contains three sagas that describe the late 1960s, Vietnam era, U.S. Army life of James A. Callaghan.
Saga of a Student Warrior-The first story follows the military training of Callaghan who, during his draft induction, was christened "Hallaghan" due...
The Spirit of the Sixties
The Making of Postwar Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture.
The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted...
by James J. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Personal, funny, and spiritual, River Girl offers a collection of poems to honor and pay tribute to some of the women who inspired author James Adams and made a positive impact on his life. While he was preparing to write this collection of poetry, friends and strangers wondered aloud, What is a man...
by E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...