T J: 1625 books
by Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta, Lester Bangs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected...
by J.T. Ellison, Alex Kava, Erica Spindler
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
One killer: A psychopath who flies under the radar, moving from city to city, preying on the lost and forgotten. Three investigators: Detective Stacy Killian from the New Orleans P.D., Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell--who witnessed some of the worst. And...
Image Science
Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell’s now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial...
Queen City Gothic
Cincinnati's Most Infamous Murder Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Losing a loved one to murder is lifes ultimate tragedy. But when the killer is never captured, a familys paralyzing grief only compounds. Years pass. Pain grows. Time heals nothing.
Parents, spouses, and children of the victims never find peace. Investigators continue to lie awake night after...
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
The Mayan in the Mall
Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational...
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
A long sequence of social, cultural, and political processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto former colonial and national traditions. Although much of...
The Cherokee Herbal
Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
A practical guide to the medicinal uses of over 450 plants and herbs as applied in the traditional practices of the Cherokee.
• Details the uses of over 450 plants for the treatment of over 120 ailments.
• Written by the coauthor of Medicine of the Cherokee (40,000 copies sold).
•...
by J.T. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2011
When planning revenge on his embezzling cousin and business partner, Timothy Robins really should have checked all his facts first as sometimes things go deadly wrong…
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait in Poetry
A Portrait in Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
I write about anything that touches the essence of my existence. What I witness, what I feel, what I think, what I fear, what I treasure. I write about life, which is our greatest gift. --Mattie Stepanek, 1990-2004Mattie J. T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had the spirit of a giant....
by J.T. Jackman
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Bitcoin for Beginners
Bitcoin has taken the world by storm. The reasons are obvious.
With the value of Bitcoins increasing by 1,000% in less than a year, Bitcoins have been a lucrative investment for many.
Bitcoins can offer privacy to individuals that their own currencies do...
by John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, John T. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable...
The Cherokee Full Circle
A Practical Guide to Ceremonies and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
A comprehensive overview of Native American spiritual principles and their application for personal spirit-healing.
• Includes traditional sacred exercises, teaching tales, case studies, and suggested rituals for individual and group healing.
• Outlines the core principals of Native...