Williams: 7228 books
Black Male Frames
African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy...
by Eugene Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
For thousands of years, man has pondered the meaning of life and the universe we live in. In this book, Eugene Williams ponders if there is a God, man’s ideas on religion, the meaning (and source) of life, wars, the power of prayer, and much more.
He asks and answers big questions, while...
A True Story of the Great Escape
A young Australian POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war and, in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed...
by Stephen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Power is the point of envy of those who are weak, and the pride of those who are not. Although power can hold command over the lives of others, it can very much lead to the destruction of the one controlling it. Author Stephen R. Williams discusses the pitfalls of abused power without repentance and...
The Politics of Public Housing
Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Black women have traditionally represented the canvas on which many debates about poverty and welfare have been drawn. For a quarter century after the publication of the notorious Moynihan report, poor black women were tarred with the same brush: "ghetto moms" or "welfare queens" living off the state,...
The Chinese Must Go
Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration...
by C. Dennis Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Through the years I have known Dr. Williams, he has always maintained a wonderful and stable balance between the physical and spiritual worlds. This book is another example of the two-fold theological and practical perspective that he always brought to his teaching and preaching.
John R. Lillis,...
Exilic Existence
Contributions of Black Churches in Prince Edward County, Virginia During the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Reflections from Friends and fellow Ministers I met The Reverend J. Samuel Williams, Jr., on the campus of Shaw University in 1959, and I am privileged to call him a friend for more than fifty years. Having known him as I have, I am not surprised but greatly impressed with the fact that he has seen...
How to Be an Intellectual
Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s...
Predators
The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIAÆs and U.S. militaryÆs most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples...
The Prairie in Seed
Identifying Seed-Bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The tallgrass prairie offers solutions to the many environmental challenges facing our water, soils, and ecosystems. Planting prairie on just 10 percent of a field can effectively remove excess phosphorous and nitrogen from the remaining 90 percent. Deep prairie roots and dense aboveground growth...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire...
by J. E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Experience a Sacred Way of LifeFor more than thirty years Dr. J. E. Williams has risked his health and personal safety to journey among shamans in Peru, the place he calls the mystical and spiritual center of our times. In its rain forests, mountains, and environmentally attuned indigenous...
by Hank Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This comprehensive compilation contains every song written by country music legend Hank Williams. Includes 128 in all: Cold, Cold Heart * Hey, Good Lookin' * Honky Tonkin' * I Ain't Got Nothing but Time * I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) * I Saw the...