Jim James: 69 books
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
Southern Baptist Identity
An Evangelical Denomination Faces the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
What was once a small, southern, predominantly white denomination has become America's largest evangelical denomination. Yet with the Southern Baptist Convention's growth have come the challenges of increasing fragmentation, theological controversy, and sweeping cultural change. These challenges have...
Arctic Bush Pilot
From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyokuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats. He flew mining equipment, gold, live wolves and sled dogs,...
by Jon Scieszka, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Partridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning...
by James FW Thompson, Dave D'Alessio, J. Donnait
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Leprechauns are out to get me. I'm not kidding. They're real, and they're a**holes. I'll tell you why. And while I'm at it, I'll tell you about the two guys who took on Hades's demons on a drunken dare. What they brought back you'll never believe. I also heard about a dude who answered a help wanted...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
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,...
Fall of the Musketeers
Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
William Gillette in real life brought Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the theater stage in over 1300 plays. Gillette in real life often took on the persona of Sherlock and this story portays him switching to and from Sherlock. Fall of the Musketeers is a fast moving historical detective mystery...
Flowers Bloom on Broadway
Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Times around 1900 where marked by heavy steel coal fired steam engines, wood heated drafty homes, horses worked the fields, and whaling was at its apex. Electricity, phones and automobiles were rare and only available to wealthy. Everyone worked hard and often died early. Entertainment for those that...
Backroads of Arizona - Second Edition
Along the Byways to Breathtaking Landscapes and Quirky Small Towns
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Explore the wide open spaces of Arizona with this guide to roads less traveled and awe-inspiring sights less seen. Backroads of Arizona guides you into the heart of Arizona's sun-shiny beauty and fascinating history. In this thoroughly updated edition, you'll find twenty-five driving tours and adventures...
Involuntary Servitude
Slavery Is Alive and Well in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The Authors experience dealing with the IRS and Congress has led him to know that most Americans earn insufficient income to have a tax liability. The current taxing system, Title 26 United States Code, is all based on semantics, not fact of law.
This experience culminated with the IRS placing...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American...
Kings of the Green Jelly Moon
The Book, Volume 1.5
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
KINGS of the GREEN JELLY MOON presents a searing collection of poetry written by a group of Vietnam veteranseach successful in their craft, all award-winning poets in their own right. The title Kings of the Green Jelly Moon recalls the innocence of childhood, a time when children believed the moon...
by James Miller, Jim Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
SCAPA FLOW, ONE of the greatest naval bases in history, resonates through the annals of the Royal Navy during the two great wars of the twentieth century. It was from there that the Grand Fleet sailed to Jutland in 1916; from there that Russian convoys set off; and it was in that beautiful, bleak...
Richard Rorty
Education, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...