A Jay: 118 books

Dramatic story of World War II in the air. How the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force. Vivid accounts of aerial combat.

God has led this Church from the beginning, by prophets and inspired men,' President Wilford Woodruff declared in 1891. 'He will lead this Church until the scene is wound up.' God's direction in leading the Church is evident in this collection of fifty treasured talks delivered by prophets, apostles,...

The birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago is famous for an architectural tradition that has influenced building around the globe. It is the cradle of modern architecture. It gave rise to the urban office building and to the flowing, open floor plans of today’s homes. Chicago Architecture and Design...

Definitive history of ragtime music and its composers by the two top experts in the field, profiling 48 major composers and 800 rags. Over 100 photographs. Index.

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership. Its aim is to advance understanding along many dimensions of the...

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...

Humanity is coming up against the limits of the physical world—but the imaginations of the writers in this anthology reach far beyond those boundaries.   The Launch Pad Astronomy Seminar aims to bring more hard science into science fiction. These twelve stories look into our...

There's something compelling about the shine of clicking brass clockwork and hiss of steam-driven automatons. But there was something missing. It was easy to find excellent stories of American and British citizens... but we rarely got to see steampunk from the point of view of the rest of the...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is anedited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary...

This book distills hundreds of interesting facts of Mormonism into twelve categories of lists - Church history, General Authorities, missionaries, scriptures, and contemporary theses such as women, art, entertainment, and athletes. Use this facts-in-a-jiffy book for “gospel games,” to enliven lessons and talks, and for sheer pleasure reading.

While much is known about who votes in American elections, much less is known about who donates. In this book, the authors utilize a unique and historically unprecedented data set of donors from the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections to answer longstanding questions: What is the relationship between...

This book offers a practical approach to assessing challenging but necessary performance tasks like creative writing, "real-world" research projects, and cooperative group activities.

Acts of Our Gentle God presents compelling evidence from the Bible to exonerate God of the charges that he is uncaring, judgmental, controlling, unfair, bad-tempered, or violent. The book demonstrates that the entire Bible, correctly understood, is in harmony with the definitive statement God is love (1 John 4:8).

Includes new chapters to assist your care of specific populations such as those engaging in ecotourism or military travel, as well as the VIP traveler. A new chapter on pre-travel considerations for non-vaccine preventable travel infections has also been added. Provides new information on new...