Jones: 7670 books

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond...

Angela Baranyi, an unassuming divorced mother from Cleveland with two young children, gets the chance of a lifetime when she gets a job in New York City, working for the enigmatic Pastor Soren Kristiansen, the world’s most popular Internet evangelist. Six months later, she disappears mysteriously...

Stunned by the shocking turn of events at the end Alex Jones' second novel, Faces, Dan Whitney joins forces with his old friend Anika Kristiansen, their new ally Angela Baranyi (the mysterious woman of many identities from Angela's Eyes), and the close friends they have made since Dan's arrival in...

Sports law is an ever-growing field that requires constant updates, analyses, and research. Rules of the Game: Sports Law provides the most up-to-date information on hot-button issues such as crime in sports—including sexual harassment and assault both on college campuses and in private homes—sports...

A collection of humorous, inspirational and serious blogs, essays and insights from best-selling author Marie D. Jones, spanning from 2001 - 2015. The inner workings of a writer/mom's brain, and all the end results of a creative mind gone unchecked. From an unexpected pregnancy, to raising a child...

Its human nature to over think things making life more complicated than it really is. Feeling that there isn’t anything we don’t know or need to know, can lead to losing sight of ourselves or reality. With positivity and the mindset of a leader, it’s easy to see that life and its lessons are...

The institutional shortcomings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) became apparent during the Doha Round of Trade negotiations that began in 2001 and which aimed to improve the success of developing countries' trading by lowering trade barriers and adjusting other trade rules. This "development...

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce...

The fascinating life of a man who “ranked as one of America’s greatest writers, bon vivants, and literary showmen” (The New York Times). The author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle” was a quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer,...

This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of...

The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation...

What did you do in the war, daddy?' It's a classic question - and maybe one that expected the answer to be stories of brave attacks on enemy lines, pressing forward against overwhelming odds. But to Gethin Russell-Jones, the question was not one to ask - he knew what his father had done and, growing...

Time Impairment by Randy Jones   Time Impairment at once encapsulates the noir detective and swashbuckling crime novels. As the story travels through time and space, the reader encounters characters that are famous, infamous, and everything in between. The lines are blurred,...

This book is dedicated to the late Niomi Brown, my loving grandmother whom I miss so much. To two very special friends, Patricia Sweet Pea Johnson and Douglas Fleming, may they rest in peace; to Sara Fuller for her typing and encouragement; my son, Denzale Jones; my daughters, JaKala Myles and Delexus...