James Jacobs: 47 books
From the Imjin to the Hook
A National Service Gunner in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found...
A Gathering Darkness
Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.
Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland,...
by Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Taking you into the realm of greed and grave-robbing, Spinechillers Volume Three presents a plethora of all-time greats, with M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, and Robert Louis Stevenson. This ebook includes all the stories from Volume Three of the Spinechillers audiobook series as well as Doug Bradley’s...
Who Governs?
Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
America’s model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman and Jacobs combine existing research with novel...
Stateville
The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the...
Hate Crimes
Criminal Law and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2000
In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated...
HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 200+ Mysteries, Horror Classics & Supernatural Tales
Sweeney Todd, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Haunted Hotel, The Mummy's Foot, The Dunwich Horror, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, The Turn of the Screw, The Horla…
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection with horror thrillers, supernatural mysteries, monster tales and gothic novels carefully picked out to strike the fear and chills into your bones as …the winter is coming: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House From Beyond...
by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Montague Rhodes James
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
This volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Asquith, Cynthia: “The Corner Shop” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Benson, E. F.: “The Face” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce, Ambrose: “The Middle Toe of the...
by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...
by Jack London, Golden Deer Classics, A.M. Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers...
by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds
The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and...
by Bill Johnson, Lance Wallnau, Chuck Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Too often Christian leaders trying to reform society are perceived as intolerant, right-wing conservatives without an ounce of compassion. The truth is, many people trying to bring about positive societal reformation are very compassionate and loving people. The selected writers who contributed to...
by Alastair Gunn, Miles Gerald Keon, James Hain Friswell
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the seventh in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 7 in the series spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains...