Jones Jones: 7670 books
Jesus, Entrepreneur
Using Ancient Wisdom to Launch and Live Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
He didn’t work for money. He was willing to walk away. He invested his emotions wisely. He did sweat the small stuff.
Beyond work, beyond entrepreneurism, there is “spiritreneurism”—work that allows you to do well by doing right. In Jesus, Entrepreneur, Laurie Beth Jones, bestselling...
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The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others....
Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2007
In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics...
by Dylan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man. It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise and how to suck up to your boss. Then there are the minor irritations: how do you beat jet-lag, and how do you stop your...
Lies My Mother Never Told Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her...
by Aled Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Aled Jones was a choirboy with a remarkable voice, whose prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom. Before he was sixteen, he had already sold more than six million records and had become a fixture on television and radio. He has worked alongside such greats as Leonard Bernstein, Andrew...
Magna Carta
The Birth of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
**"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." —Antonia Fraser
From the New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history...
They Were Soldiers
How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"Unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching."-Andrew Bacevich
"Jones writes with passion and clarity."-Marilyn Young
"Read this book."-Jonathan Shay
Ann Jones shows the dead, wounded, mutilated, brain-damaged, drug-addicted, suicidal, homicidal...
From Boer War to World War
Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen...
Answering the Call
An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account” (Booklist, starred review).
Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality...
by Ann Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem).
Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers,...
by Tristan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A Welshman’s witty and gritty sailing adventure memoir with “the bite of fine sea salt and a whiplike delivery” (Kirkus Reviews).
Follow the supreme adventurer, Tristan Jones, as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, The Sea Dart. Covering a distance twice...
Death of a Generation:How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of...
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.
Jones explores a number of themes, including...