Jones: 7670 books
Crusaders
The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.
For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace...
Not All Texans Ride Horses
The Sequel to Weed, Speed, and Other Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Austin, Texas, is the county seat, the state capital, and the home of the University of Texas. Even with all of that, it still had a small-town feel when author Jacob Jones was growing up there. In Not All Texans Ride Horses, Jones offers a personal and engaging retrospective and memoir of what life...
by Henry Jones Ford
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
2 works of Henry Jones Ford Political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official (1851-1925) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Henry Jones Ford. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Cleveland Era...
by Lloyd Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Long ago, when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting the women of the town. They sat for him in lieu of payment for his work catching rats. Alice, his favourite, returned his attentions, and when her husband, George, came home from the war, he set out to prove his love and reclaim his...
All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women...
by April Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Nurse Commitment is the result of an extensive six-year organizational psychology study, published in the January 2015 issue of the Journal of Nurse Management and as a doctoral dissertation in the December 2014 issue of ProQuest. After examining the affective commitment of registered nurses in the...
by Kent Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Who is afraid of the WTO, the World Trade Organization? The list is long and varied. Many workers--and the unions that represent them--claim that WTO agreements increase import competition and threaten their jobs. Environmentalists accuse the WTO of encouraging pollution and preventing governments...
Abolishing the Taboo
Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific...
Poison Arrows
North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arrows"...
by Daniel W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Daniel W. Jones. the toughest nice-guy you will ever know.
How much can one man endure for his beliefs? How much is any man expected to sacrifice for his church? In this true account of Daniel W. Jones’ autobiography experience one man’s life journey from associating with the...
by Donald Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Donald Jones' walking tours of Toronto have drawn crowds of up to 5000 at a time. His 'Historic Toronto' column in the Star has proved one of the city's most widely read newspaper features. Now for the first time he has gathered together some of his personal favourites – stories of triumph and treachery,...
Our Musicals, Ourselves
A Social History of the American Musical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2011
Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with...
by Willis Knapp Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkles with...
The View from the Fifty-Yard Line
A Cheerleader’S Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Some of the greatest football fans in the world purchase seats on the fifty-yard line, but only a select few actually have the privilege of touching the turf. Brandi Jones does not have to imagine standing four quarters on the sidelines of a football game: she was a professional cheerleader in the...