James M : 1461 books
DNA.
The Alex Cave Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Seven billion people without the correct gene will die a slow and painful death!
Geneticist Zane Simon, owner of the Discover New Ancestors Company, finds viable DNA in the tooth from a woman buried twenty-five thousand years ago. She has a unique genetic tag, and he makes a startling discovery...
Red Energy. (Cold Energy part 2)
The Alex Cave Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Geophysicist Alex Cave discovers alien technology on one of the Aleutian Islands!
Before he can take device to a safe location, it's stolen and taken to COBRA, a top-secret research facility south of Yellowstone National Park. The scientist in charge has no idea what she's dealing with and...
The War That Forged a Nation
Why the Civil War Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured...
by Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American history. Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray, from the early division between the North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops.
Slaughterhouse Rules
One Man's Success in Navigating Life, Hollywood, and the Corporate World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
From a poverty-level mindset and with limited personal expectations, to a life filled with joy and abundance, this is one man’s inspiring story of grit and self-actualization. James Myers takes you on a journey that touches your heart, invigorates your inner passions, and enlightens your spirit....
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death....
by John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism....
The Negro's Civil War
How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and letters, he...
Luther the Reformer
The Story of the Man and His Career
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
For nearly thirty years, James M. Kittelson’s Luther the Reformer has been the standard biography of Martin Luther. Like Roland Bainton’s biography of the generation before, Kittelson’s volume is the one known by thousands of students, pastors, and interested readers as the biography that gave...
Crossroads of Freedom : Antietam
Antietam
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17 1862 was the bloodiest single day in American history with more than 6000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom America's most eminent Civil War...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian offers an illuminating portrait of one of the giants in the American story. It is the best concise introduction to Lincoln in print, a must-have volume for anyone interested in American...
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author reveals how Lincoln won the Civil War and invented the role of commander in chief as we know it
As we celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, this study by preeminent, bestselling Civil War historian James M. McPherson provides a rare, fresh take on...
Going for Broke
Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers—including Japanese Americans—rushed to military recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who...
by James M. Tabor
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—Time
In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded...