List 79 of books by Jay

Debating Perseverance

The Augustinian Heritage in Post-Reformation England

by Jay T. Collier
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

The Church of England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is usually described as forming either a Calvinist consensus or an Anglican middle way steeped in an ancient catholicity. Debating Perseverance sheds light on the influence of both the early church and the Reformed churches...

Fly Tying with Common Household Materials

by Jay Fullum
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011

Novice fly fisherman start fly tying with a predictable set of materials. Their benches are neatly arranged with small bags of elk hair, pheasant feathers, stray pieces of chenille and yarn. But eventually they find that not only are these materials more expensive than they need to be, they are also...

Minds Without Fear

Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance

by Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy--both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities--played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively...

The Dillinger Dossier

by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 1983

According to the FBI, public enemy number one John Dillinger was gunned down by agents at the Biograph Theatre in July, 1934. However Jay Robert Nash calls this report into question in this fascinating piece of investigative journalism. Nash asserts that it was Dillinger's doppelgänger rather than...

The Last Warring Angel [Screenplay]

by Jay Carvajal
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014

Michael Walker is the last remaining Warring Angel. He is trying to save the world from a pending nuclear war brought about by a gang of Fallen Angels. After a failed assassination attempt on the lead Fallen Angel, who is in a position of power, Walker finds himself a captive in a high security prison....

The 12 Purposes of Life

A Down-to-Earth Guide for the Mortal Traveler

by Parry, Jay A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

". . . an easy to read, and clearly written, blueprint for those wishing to find the key to a richer and fuller life." — Jeffrey Needle, Association for Mormon Letters As Latter-day Saints, we seem to share a universal desire to find meaning in everyday living and to know what we...

But Dad

by Jay Fiondella
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

In pondering the title, I thought of various witty or apt catch phrases that would somehow give the reader a clue to the tone and subject matter of its content. Names such as “Tales from the Crib”, “Crayons to Car Keys”, “Toy Box Chronicles”, “Parenthood aka Utter Chaos”, and “Daddy’s...

Lucian, Plato and Greek Morals

by John Jay Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

First published in 1931, this fascinating book provides a study of famous Greek satirist and rhetorician, Lucian of Samosata, as well as an analysis of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato’s Symposium in the light of Lucian’s criticism. An essay in popular form, whose aim is really to...

A Reader's Buffet

by Jay Gross
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012

Like petits fours at a party, these seven short pieces of fiction aim to satisfy the reader’s taste for something small and tasty.In Bithersby’s Bored Birthday, an enterprising private detective encounters something most unusual–and she’s all in black.Piotr’s Great Find discovers mysteries...

Armies of Heaven

The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse

by Jay Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads-indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached...

Ironclad Captain

Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864

by Jay Slagle
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior office in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest. Phelps,...

The Bourgeois Frontier

French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

by Jay Gitlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion.The Seven Years War brought...

Air Apaches

The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II

by Jay Stout
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group—Hell’s Angels—with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was...

The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home

Explorations in North American Cultural History

by Scott Flipse, Daniel H Bays, William Lawrence Svelmoe
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010

This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history. This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century...

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