Michael James: 446 books
Mystery Midrash
An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Confront murder, mayhem—and your own mysteries of being.
From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this...
by Michael Green,James D. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce...
by Lawrence Dorfman, James Michael Naccarato
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
From the author of the bestselling Snark series comes the premiere guide to satire, sneering, jeering, and mockery in their finest forms. A surviving knight of many a verbal joust, Larry Dorfman has become an expert at backhanded sass and cathartic banter.
Featuring life lessons from the master...
by Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1986
"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books
In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born...
No Chariot Let Down
Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three...
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
Choral Music
A Research and Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.
War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944
Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, "the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield," the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First,...
Patton's Third Army in World War II
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. Army Group. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chance to take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage across France, driving through Germany...
Through a Catholic Lens
Religious Perspectives of 19 Film Directors from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Movies are often examined for subtext and dramatizations of social and psychological issues as well as current movements. Studies of well-known Catholic directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, have made the search for Catholic themes a reputable field of examination. Through a Catholic...
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...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, SeungHui Kye
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
When his parents are murdered by an intergalactic criminal, Daniel X vows to take on his father's role as Earth's sole Alien Hunter. Life isn't easy, though, when you're a young boy on your own, tracking down the galaxy's deadliest outlaws. Luckily, Daniel has a gift: the ability to create anything...
Ask for the Rain
Receiving Your Inheritance of Revival & Outpouring
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
**Position Yourself to Experience Holy Spirit Outpouring! **
Ask the LORD for rainIn the time of the latter rain. (Zechariah 10:1)
*God is pouring out His Spirit and revival rain is falling across the Earth. How should you respond? Ask for more! *
How can revival impact your...