James B : 537 books
by James B. Tschen-Emmons Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Specifically intended for high school readers and junior college students, this new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing...
Your Blood Never Lies
How to Read a Blood Test for a Longer, Healthier Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
A standard blood test indicates how well the kidneys and liver are functioning, the potential for heart disease, and a host of other vital health markers. Unfortunately, most of us cannot decipher these results ourselves, nor can we even formulate the right questions to ask about them—or we couldn’t...
Reversing the Slide
A Strategic Guide to Turnarounds and Corporate Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
A just-in-time guide for revamping distressed companies
Drawn from the author's decades of experience advising, purchasing, and reviving distressed companies across industries, geographies, and sizes, Reversing the Slide is designed to help executives, managers, and employees revitalize downtrodden...
Lincoln's White House
The People's House in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Lincoln’s White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants...
The Naked Badge
True Police Experiences: Stranger Than Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
On a balmy April morning in 1954, James Moore was sworn in as a member of the Toledo Police Academys twelfth cadet class and began what would eventually become a twenty-six-year career with a police force intent on fiercely protecting the citizens of its beloved city. The Naked Badge shares powerful,...
by James B. Twitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
"If you ask men if they spend any time hiding, they usually look at you as if you're nuts. 'What, me hide?' But if you ask women whether men hide, they immediately know what you mean."—from Where Men Hide
Where Men Hide is a spirited tour of the dark and often dirty places men go...
Shopping for God
How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like any other product or service. How did this happen?...
Grace
The Power to Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
There are many things that we all believe yet do not experience. We all want victory, yet few find it. One of our greatest frustrations is that much of what we believe really doesn’t work. Too often we spend our lives struggling with the same issues. The feeling of defeat can be agonizing.
It is...
Branded Nation
The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Branding, says James Twitchell, is nothing more than commercial storytelling; brands are the stories that are associated with products. (For example, the special taste of Evian, says Twitchell, is in the brand, not the water.) Branding has become so successful, so ubiquitous that even institutions...
by Katherine K. Newman, James B. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Biographical sketches, descent information, and references for the forebears, siblings, and cousins of Roda Selleck (1877–1970) and her husband, James Barkley Pollock (1863–1934). Includes families of Henry Selleck of Bay City, Michigan (1851–1907); Franklin Selleck of Utica, Michigan (1811–87);...
The Free Will Delusion
How We Settled for the Illusion of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Poverty is not accident, but design. We are not all equal before the law. And the central message of contemporary ethics is that only some people matter. Expanding on work described as “crucial” and “very fine and provocative” by the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, author James...
Rats in the Grain
The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain portrays the crime and punishment of ADM during the largest white-collar criminal trial of the 1990s....
Look Away Dixieland
A Carpetbagger's Great-Grandson Travels Highway 84 in Search of the Shack-up-on-Cinder-Blocks, Confederate-Flag-Waving, Squirrel-Hunting, Boiled-Peanuts, Deep-Drawl, Don't-Stop-the-Car-Here South
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpetbagger...
by James B. Donovan
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Da questo romanzo, il film di Steven Spielberg 'Il ponte delle spie' con Tom Hanks.
La mattina del 10 febbraio 1962, James Donovan è in missione sul Glienicke Brücke, il celebre Ponte delle spie che collega Berlino Ovest con l’Est comunista. Al suo fianco c’è Rudolf Abel, la più misteriosa...