M John: 1445 books

Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country. Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their homelands, while others come from...

Is the Union voluntary or an agreement with no escape route? Setting the tone, John M. Taylor leads off by noting the travails of a respected ancestor. Major questions in America are explored, including differing views of the meaning of union. Though numerous issues led to war, most modern establishment...

The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian...

Why have the churches been unable to make sense of Jesus to the population? This is not the same as getting people into places of worship. Sometimes more people did come to church. Adults had nothing more interesting to do. The children came to Sunday school. Times changed. Quickly it became clear...

Some children in Russian orphanages will be forever changed by an adoption and some will be left behind. To Sing Frogs, a memoir authored by John M. Simmons, tells the deeply personal tale of the Simmons family and their quest to adopt five children from rural Russia. Readers venture deep into Russia...

“War in the air over the Middle East Mesopotamia, ‘the land of the two rivers’, is deemed the birthplace of civilisation. Now modern day Iraq, it has known warfare throughout the millennia that man has inhabited it. By the first years of the twentieth century the Ottoman Turkish Empire...

In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits...

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....

Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. John W. M. Krummel explores the Buddhist...

Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization,...

Pardoned: Prayers and Promises for Prisoners sensitively addresses the emotions and needs of so many who are incarcerated.  The author, John M. Robertson, has a gift for using the written word to meet special needs.  Choosing scripture promises which touch the hurts and fears of individuals,...

Because the Future Matters: Let’s Stop Letting Modern Economics and Our Energy Addiction Ruin Almost Everything! takes as its starting point the importance of the fundamental role that energy in one form or another has always played—and will always play—in the economic life of human beings.Very...

Does Dick Cheney have any thoughts about Iraq and President Obama's administration's middle eastern policies? Does Dick Cheney, retired Vice President of the United States, have a conscience? Does Dick Cheney's conscience speak on its own? Does Dick Cheney's conscience do interviews? Does Dick Cheney's...

Donny the Drone, a sentient blogging United States military unmanned fix winged aerial mechanical vehicle, conducts a heartfelt interview with the phrase “The War on Terror”. The topics of discussion include ISIS, the Cheney Administration, Neoconmen, Muslim No Go Zones, the TPP (Trans Pacific...