James Sanders: 20 books

Book cover of Diamonds in the Rough

Diamonds in the Rough

A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field

by James Sanders Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013

Diamonds in the Rough reconstructs the historical moment that defined the Cahaba Coal Field, a mineral-rich area that stretches across sixty-seven miles and four counties of central Alabama.   Combining existing written sources with oral accounts and personal recollections, James Sanders...
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First Strike

TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America

by Jack Cashill, James Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003

September 11, 2001, did not represent the first aerial assault against the American mainland. The first came on July 17,1996, with the downing of TWA Flight 800. This book looks in detail at what people saw and heard on this fateful night. First Strike explains how a determined corps of ordinary...
Book cover of The Downing of TWA Flight 800
by James Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

NOT THEORY—FACT! A MISSLE SHOT DOWN FLIGHT 800! On July 17, 1996, minutes after take-off, TWA Flight 800 was blown out of the sky, killing all 230 people on board. What happened? It took federal investigators nearly a year and millions of tax dollars to point to a fuel tank...
Book cover of Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
by Virginia H. Dale, Catherine L. Kling, Judith L. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010

Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces...
Book cover of Another South

Another South

Experimental Writing in the South

by Hank Lazer, Lorenzo Thomas, Bill Lavender
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
Book cover of South Africa and the International Media, 1972-1979
by James Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

This book studies the Anglo-American media's representation of South Africa in the 1970s - the international media is shown to have been under continuous pressure from both the South African Dept of Information and the anti-apartheid movement.
Book cover of The Blue Jay Factor

The Blue Jay Factor

A Thoroughbred Handicapping Method

by James Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014

This book will put any racing fan on the right track when it comes to handicapping graded stakes races.
Book cover of The Re-birth of a Born-Again Christian
by James A. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Lightly tracing his personal experiences growing up in the Bible Belt as a born-again Christian, James A. Sanders recounts his second rebirth experience and subsequent efforts to battle what can most broadly be called evangelicalism's denial of dignity and human worth to those different from the so-called...
Book cover of The Vanguard of the Atlantic World

The Vanguard of the Atlantic World

Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

by James E. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014

In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that...
Book cover of Irish vs. Yankees

Irish vs. Yankees

A Social History of the Boston Schools

by James W. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

Boston entered the twentieth century as an Irish Catholic city, no longer the "Yankee" town of its Puritan past. The dominance of the Irish Catholic population, swelled by the "potato famine" masses, gave it political control of the city, and significantly, control of its public schools. Unlike in...
Book cover of Contentious Republicans

Contentious Republicans

Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by James E. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004

Contentious Republicans explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of Colombia, a country many assume has never had a meaningful democracy of any sort. James E. Sanders describes a surprisingly rich republicanism characterized by legal rights and...
Book cover of Billionaire Romance Boxed Sets: My Billionaire\The Billionaire Bargain\The Shopaholic and the Billionaire\Claimed by the Alpha Billionaire
by M.J. Bradley, Melody Sanders, Danielle Jamesen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

The bundle contains: ‧ My Billionaire by M.J. Bradley ‧ The Billionaire Bargain by Melody Sanders ‧ The Shopaholic and the Billionaire by Danielle Jamesen ‧ Claimed by the Alpha Billionaire by Elannah James  **MY BILLIONAIRE ** He was tall with long, black hair. He wore a suit,...
Book cover of Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018

Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
Book cover of Unloaded Volume 2

Unloaded Volume 2

More Crime Writers Writing Without Guns

by Eric Beetner, Sara Paretsky, E.A. Aymar
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018

The Anthony-nominated collection of crime stories without guns—the collection we didn't want to be necessary—is back for Volume 2. Two dozen more crime writers have come together to raise their voices and take pen in hand to call for a sensible and reasoned debate about guns in America....
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