Joy: 1603 books

During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations....

Memorial sites, sites of “dark tourism,” are vernacular spaces that are continuously negotiated, constructed, and reconstructed into meaningful places. Using the locale of the 9/11 tragedy, Joy Sather-Wagstaff explores the constructive role played by tourists in understanding social, political,...

From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years,...

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as “a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature” (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story...

Joy Nicholson's The Tribes of Palos Verdes is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe, and Cody Fern. “Nicholson captures the California-coast culture. . . . Medina shows what it’s like to feel ‘six million years old’ way...

Researching local history can be absorbing but often key documents, such as Manorial and Estate papers and parish registers, are full of archaic or Latin words and phrases which need translation. Joy Bristow first compiled this Glossary from a collection of ancient words she drew up while studying...

Reading Science Stories is a book meant to celebrate nonfiction reading, especially narrative nonfiction, as a vehicle for understanding the world around us. We live in what is the greatest scientific era in all of human history, it also happens to be an Information Age, and nonfiction is a great...

On January 9, 1997, Comair flight 3272 departed the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport in very wintry conditions. Stuck in a holding pattern outside the Detroit airport, the plane crashed in the icy conditions. All 29 people aboard, which included three crew members, were killed. Do you believe...

Every life form is made up of vibrations that coincide with the harmonic frequency to which all life is attuned. The vibrations of the body easily go out of tune when a person is exposed to physical or emotional stress. Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras provides the most up-to-date information...

Creation can be an overwhelming concept for young children, unless the ideas are tied to things they know. As readers follow Andrew, Ryan, and Amelia through seven springtime days, they will learn about the Creation Week in terms they can understand. At the end of the story, they will have the opportunity...

In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept...

Joy Lee Larocque, impressed from early childhood with a highly creative imagination, presents her interpretation of "the magic of the Bahamas."

If it can happen in Beverly Hills, it can happen anywhere. The Poisoning of an American High School is a feat of investigative reportage and the product of four years of research by award-winning journalist Joy Horowitz. Making lucid the tangled issues of public health, regulation, and...

It is travelling Essay with a lot of beautiful pictures. The island of Borneo has a very unusual natural environment, culture and history. Borneo is the third largest island in the world with three countries: Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Just as a lot of wood for making furniture are from Borneo,...