B James: 537 books

This Bookshelf Single is an excerpt from the book Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 18201844, Second Edition.In 1965, a BYU graduate student discovered an earlier account of Joseph Smith's First Vision than the 1838 account included in History of the Church. This discovery opened...

This book is an extensive study of the many risks inherent in assuming a reverse mortgage. In over 31,000 words it explores the many misconceptions about this "safe, tax free, government money" and explains what occasions a reverse mortgage might be a good idea. It also explains the imminent changes...

Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.” Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...

In The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to credit. They suggest that financial activities occur in a complex milieu, in which specific parties, with particular motives, achieve their...

Petrography is the microscopic examination of thin sections of pottery to determine their precise mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to the petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petrography...

The Poetry of James is a collection of eighty poems written by the author with some of them a modification of unpublished poems written by Helen M. Owens, his mother. This book presents the poems in thirteen categories, making it easier for the reader to select poems to read. The index assists the...

John L. Steelhard, fresh from his conquest over evil galactic alien forces, must now confront the most powerful entity in the Universe, Chaos, an inter-dimensional force that controls all of dark energy in the multi-verses. This is a confrontation that will require all of Steelhard's enhanced...

A fallen angel resurrected. Human worshippers of inhuman evil. The only woman to stop it has lost faith in herself. In eighteenth century Spanish Louisiana, Anthony of Languedoc stops a cult from opening a spectral doorway to the Second Heaven, where the Watcher—a fallen angel—is...

The ripping Adventures of John L. Steelhard continues with his team of Black Tigers adjusting their combat skills from the jungles of Indochina to confront the tangled boardrooms of international intrigue. With assistance from ancient artificial crystal allies, Steelhard with an advanced alien stealth...

The Adventure continues as John L. Steelhard and his growing army of special ops warriors, the Black Tigers, adapt from terrestrial combat to celestial warfare. In the vast heavens above, Earth’s mightiest hero will challenge Earth’s colossal Gods from a bygone era, the Anunnaki, as well as their...

A booze-addled, perpetually broke, down-on-his-luck private dick finds himself sprawled across the floor of his dingy office in the bowels of one of L.A.’s not-so-beautiful neighborhoods. Two bodies share his quarters; one the mysterious client who hired him not ten minutes ago, the other his faithful...

The story of mysterious goings-on at a chic ski resort, one populated with high-octane celebrities and high-voltage political figures up to and including the president, and the singular bartender who uncovers and thwarts a most incredible plot to wreak holy havoc over everything. Fun, romance, danger,...

The Universe is at peace, finally, at long last! Culminating in the magnificent and harrowing final defeat of Chaos, John L. Steelhard and his squad of Black Tigers have proclaimed the ultimate victory in the long war to balance the forces of the Light and the Dark. Through all of this, Steelhard...

This issue of Facial Plastic Surgery CLinics, guest edited by Dr. James B. Lucas, is devoted to Facial Reconstruction Post-Mohs Surgery. Articles in this issue include Anatomy of the Skin and the Pathogenesis of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer; Mohs Micrographic Surgery: the Essentials; Physiology and Biomechanics...