Jr Henry: 84 books

Book cover of The Jefferson Highway

The Jefferson Highway

Blazing the Way from Winnepeg to New Orleans

by Lyell D., Jr. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated long-distance travel. Then, the roads confronting...
Book cover of In Search of Humanity

In Search of Humanity

Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

by Timothy W. Burns, Paul A. Cantor, Brent Edwin Cusher
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
Book cover of Case Files Biochemistry 3/E
by Eugene C. Toy, William E. Seifert Jr., Henry W. Strobel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014

LEARN BIOCHEMISTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF REAL-LIFE PATIENTS AND PREPARE FOR THE USMLE Step 1 Experience with clinical cases is key to excelling on the USMLE Step 1 and shelf exams, and ultimately to providing patients with competent clinical care. Case Files: Biochemistry provides 53 true-to-life cases...
Book cover of The Crown of Life Society: a novel
by William Henry Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Golden years? Career criminals and one-time opportunists are scheming to strip that gold from elderly people…Darryl, the greaser who worms his way into the heart and home of the frail Esther, hell-bent to drain her bank account…Harry, the charmer who checks the obituaries and puts widows like...
Book cover of The Future of the Race
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011

Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual...
Book cover of To Cuba and Back
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

To Cuba and Back Richard Henry Dana Jr., american lawyer and politician (1815-1882) This ebook presents «To Cuba and Back», from Richard Henry Dana Jr.. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents the Planet Stories Super Pack
by Philip K. Dick, H. B. Fyfe, Henry Kuttner
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

‘Planet Stories’ was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on other planets, and managed to obtain work from well-known names, including Isaac Asimov and Clifford Simak. In 1952 ‘Planet’ published...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack
by Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Frank Belknap Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are...
Book cover of Stony the Road

Stony the Road

Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

**The New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the...
Book cover of Loose Canons

Loose Canons

Notes on the Culture Wars

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992

Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and...
Book cover of Global Dystopias
by Margaret Atwood, Mark Bould, Tananarive Due
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017

Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present. As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. “It is not only a...
Book cover of Thirteen

Thirteen

The Apollo Flight That Failed

by Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

An “exciting” minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight based on mission control transcripts from Houston (The New York Times). On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through...
Book cover of 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research,...
Book cover of Inventing the Truth

Inventing the Truth

The Art and Craft of Memoir

by Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Frank McCourt
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1998

The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more.   For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill...
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