Mills: 1566 books
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery,...
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by Arthur F. H. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
Originally published under the pseudonym “Platoon Commander” these excellent memoirs were written by the noted novelist Arthur F. H. Mills after his service in the British Expeditionary Force...
The Forgotten People
Cane River's Creoles of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced...
Winning the Peace
The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why...
Imaginary Citizens
Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640–1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
From the colonial period to the end of the Civil War, children’s books taught young Americans how to be good citizens and gave them the freedom, autonomy, and possibility to imagine themselves as such, despite the actual limitations of the law concerning child citizenship. Imaginary Citizens argues...
by Warren L.G De Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Sorrow, like that subtle dagger conquering the sword, owes its strength to stealth. It is a brooding thing. A bleeding depression like the lonely light of the moon ever searching for the waking few who enjoy basking in its gloomy embrace. Truth be told we all bathe in its hollow light from time to...
The Pin Drop Principle
Captivate, Influence, and Communicate Better Using the Time-Tested Methods of Professional Performers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Tap into the powerful techniques of professional actors and great communicators
The Pin Drop Principle is a step-by-step master class for anyone wishing to become a more confident and credible communicator. Lewis and Mills believe all business professionals ought to deliver their message in...
Stoic Six Pack 4
The Sceptics
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
“The truth is hypothetical.”
Scepticism (or skepticism), the belief that requires all information to be well supported by evidence, originated in the Skeptikoi, a first century BC Greek school who “asserted nothing.” The school was founded by Aenesidemus; our main source of the school’s...
by Michael Mills
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
This book is a compilation of the people and events that lead to the most dramatic political changes in American history, the civil rights movement. There is, in this country, a misconception of who is truly responsible for the changes in this country during the last of the 19th century and the 20th. In this book i hope to give some of those people the recognition that they truly deserve.
by Howard Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
“The Witness”Detective Mike Johnson has been on the police force for over forty years and faithful husband for just as long. He loves his beautiful wife Maureen, respects his partner Rosetta Stone, and hopes to retire sane and happy. Until one night, during an anniversary dinner with his...
Changing Channels
The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
In the years before the civil rights era, American broadcasting reflected the interests of the white mainstream, especially in the South. Today, the face of local television throughout the nation mirrors the diversity of the local populations. The impetus for change began in 1964, when the Office...
Fool For Christ
The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of...
by Arthur F. H. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Originally published under the pseudonym “Platoon Commander” these excellent memoirs were written by the noted novelist Arthur F. H. Mills after his service in the British Expeditionary Force in 1914-1915.
Following on from Mill’s service in France, he describes his days recuperating...
by Kevin Mills
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Parents lose almost 350 hours of sleep during their baby’s first year. Over the first two years? They’ll have missed out on as much as six months of sleep. The problem is clear: parents need to find effective ways to help their babies sleep so they can sleep! The solution? Baby Codes.
Baby...