James M : 1461 books
The Right Stuff
Interviews with Icons of the 1970s and 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In The Right Stuff: Interviews with Icons of the 1970s and 1980s, journalist, Explorers Club fellow and author James M. Clash has compiled 19 of his rare interviews with the scientists, athletes and explorers of the '70s and '80s who expanded our conception of the limits of mankind. Come and take...
The Rose Man of Sing Sing
A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer’s New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly—and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus...
by James M. Weil
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A moving story about a young man trapped in the turmoil of a family that has gone astray, I originally wrote Harmony House when I was eighteen-years-old in 1977. Over the years I must have submitted the story to more than 250 literary journals and magazines. I got scores of snotty rejections from...
Reconstructing Individualism
A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
America has a love–hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American...
Drawn with the Sword
Reflections on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of...
by James M. Cain
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Seventeen hardboiled crime stories from the “poet of the tabloid murder” and author of Double Indemnity (Edmund Wilson).
They call him Lucky—but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-year-old hobo just starting to ride the rails, he is hiding in the coal car when the railroad...
by James M. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of AmericaÆs first spies, said, ôAny kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.ö A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides...
Votescam
The Stealing of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This “provocative and profoundly disturbing” history of US election rigging “details political corruption reaching to the highest levels of government” (Skeptic Files).
This book is the culmination of a twenty-five-year investigation into computerized vote fraud in the United States....
by James M. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social structure...
Michael
The Last Pope?
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
This story is predicated upon the little known fact that any male who has been baptized as a Christian is eligible to become Pope. The Catholic Church usually requires that he also be confirmed. This, however, is not the real impediment as such a thing is most unlikely to happen, on the face of it....
A Scribe Well Trained
Archibald Alexander and the life of Piety
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
“A Scribe Well-Trained” acquaints us with the life and writings of Princeton Theological Seminarys founding professor, Archibald Alexander (17721851). In the opening biographical sketch, James M. Garretson introduces us to the things that influenced Alexander and how he sought to cultivate godliness...
In Our Time (Nostra Aetate)
How Catholics and Jews Built a New Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
"In Our Time," that is, within the last fifty years, the world has witnessed the greatest improvements in Catholic-Jewish relations since the death of Jesus of Nazareth. Many courageous people contributed to this improvement. Catholics and Jews have embarked on a historic engagement with...
Inside Private Equity
The Professional Investor's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Inside Private Equity explores the complexities of this asset class and introduces new methodologies that connect investment returns with wealth creation. By providing straightforward examples, it demystifies traditional measures like the IRR and challenges many of the common assumptions about this...
The Coaching Organization
A Strategy for Developing Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders is the only book to provide practical advice on how a company can strategically manage coaching initiatives that strengthen organizations and enhance employee engagement and growth. Authors James M. Hunt and Joseph R. Weintraub offer best...