John H : 963 books
by John H. Slate, Mark Doty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
November 22, 1963, is a date that will forever live in the minds and hearts of those who were witness to or touched by the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza. Surprisingly, the majority of sites associated with events surrounding that day still stand along the streets and in the neighborhoods...
John C. and Hiley
The Struggle of a Coal Mining Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Thirteen-year-old John C. McCoy slips into the cold water of the Tug Fork River and swims through the darkness to the West Virginia shore and his future. It is 1909, and in a dozen years, he and his wife, Hiley, and two daughters struggle to survive, and the couple joins the fight for food, shelter,...
A Force for Nature
The Story of NRDC and Its Fight to Save Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) founder John H. Adams, a pioneer of environmental action, was working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office when he and fellow...
CLR James's Notes on Dialectics
Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
John H. McClendon III's CLR James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism? is the first-ever book devoted exclusively to James's 'magnum opus,' Notes on Dialectics: Hegel-Marx-Lenin. The seed for this study was planted over thirty years ago when James handed the author his personal...
A Crude Look at the Whole
The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges
Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably...
by John H. Shaw Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
This book is your guide to help you understand how the universe function automatically. Learn how the universe manifested from nothing.
Learn about the six supernatural entities/powers that plays a role in our lives every second.
Learn the facts that proves reincarnation is a reality.
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by John H. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
It is a little known fact that Steampunk animals roam the wild Outback of Australia. They live a rugged, but good life. Steampunk City is the center of their civilization, run by Governor Kevin Koala.
Outside of Steampunk City are vast stretches of arid lands. The Steampunk Animal Alliance...
Inventing Modern
Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers,...
Making Art By Jack
Jack Beckstrom's No Nonsense Guide And Commentary Including The New Way To Sculpt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Chapter (1), Learn To Draw The Human Figure On Your Own,(2) Ideal Versus Real Human Anatomy,(3) What Should Be Your Art Subject? (4) How To Make Art That Lasts, (5)The Birth Of Modern Art, (6) Why Do Modern Art? (7) The New Way to Sculpt The Human Figure, (8) Tips And Hints On Sculpting Humans
by John H. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Life on the streets is generally peaceful for Albert. An old rusted shopping cart is his best friend. It holds his blankets and all the treasures he finds in his travels. He minds his own business and people leave him alone. That’s just the way he likes it.
Meezer, a young cat, is abandoned...
by John H. Bailey II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Although John H. Bailey IIs father attained only a third-grade education, he imparted an important message to his son: you only fail when you stop trying. This is a piece of advice that Bailey II followed diligently throughout his life.
In Up from the Fields, Bailey narrates his life story...
by Col. John H. Roush Jr, Col. John H. Roush
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
This volume presents a dramatic collection of significant combat experiences of 79 men in WWII, as told from one combat veteran to another. In the 86 chapters are stories involving all the various branches of combat service and all of the various theaters of war. Within reminiscences, veterans of...
Exit Emperor Kim Jong-Il
Notes from His Former Mentor
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
In Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il, authors John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn present a compelling portrait of two men caught up in a struggle for the survival of North Korean society. Th e product of an eight-year study of individuals who observed and worked under Kim Jong-il, the dictator of North Korea for over...
Torture and the Law of Proof
Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's...