J Barber: 36 books

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide. Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...

A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin...

In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing,...

A chronicle of a common man who lived through quite recent and eventful times. He went to many places  and had some uncommon experiences which among other things proved to him that war, in particular, is not the cleverest occupation for mankind. Especially when it is at it’s most absurd

Economists and the Economy seeks to explain how economic theories are formed in response to specific incidents affecting economic events. The work covers both major historical events, such as the English Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Depression, and intellectual developments...

Proof that fact is stranger than fiction is Tom Cowan’s story of what happened to him, before, during and after World War II. The many places it took him and the more than unusual things that happened and he did. The author has set it all down as it was told to him.

When Detective Chief Inspector Ria Banker took the evening off at the local repertory company's latest production at the Granerton Grand, little did she know how the evening would end, nor the days that followed. That would lead from murder far beyond the bounds of her police division and the strange and unpleasant things that would come back from the past.

When well leisured business man George Harris took to going father afield in his touring around Europe he runs into some very new and different events and people and experiences - some he did not want or enjoy - than the travel brochures promised. Admittedly some events were very pleasant and he never...

Bask in the eighties, when the computer was every bit still a mystery, as it is even more so today, to  the not-so-young, a retiree finds his up to now well-ordered life, and his computer, suddenly in the control of an unseen, and at the first, un-welcome visitor. He became the fickle finger...

A question that does not leap to the front of the mind- what, after water, is the most important fluid in our civilized lives of cities and infrastructure after water? And what if it suddenly stopped serving us?. And what would happen while, and what it would take, to get it working again?. And how much help would those we think our friends be? Read on and hope it never happens..

Caithness, the most northerly county in mainland Britain, is one of the richest cultural landscapes in Europe. The relative geographical isolation of the area, traditional landholding and the survival of large estates, combined with the use of flagstone as the main building material since earliest...

Perception is about the reception, selection, acquisition, transformation and organization of sensory information. This book, originally published in 1976, discusses a number of aspects of human perception within a theoretical framework in which man is considered as a processor of information. The...