C James: 778 books
The Film Crew of Hollywood
Profiles of Grips, Cinematographers, Designers, a Gaffer, a Stuntman and a Makeup Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
These in-depth profiles illuminate the careers of ten motion picture crew members who worked during Hollywood’s Independent Age of film and television production—basically from 1945 to 1980. A celebratory insiders’ look at the Tinseltown machine, the book utilizes individual interviews and rare...
by Kwen D. Griffeth, C. Wayne Winkle, Tierney James
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2019
Tales From Big Country is a wild west thrill ride brought to you by USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon best-selling authors!
If you like westerns, historical fiction and action packed adventures, look no further! This thirteen-story collection, featuring work by national and international...
The Arsenic Century:How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken...
Refighting the Pacific War
An Alternative History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Refighting the Pacific War presents the viewpoints of more than thirty historians, authors, and veterans regarding what happened and what might have happened if events in the Pacific had unfolded differently during World War II. Contributors to this alternative history include the noted military historians...
by Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces...
by James C. Humes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raconteur to occupy the White House between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. A superb...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
This is Home Now
Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The term "Holocaust survivors" is often associated with Jewish communities in New York City or along Florida's Gold Coast. Traditionally, tales of America's Holocaust survivors, in both individual and cultural histories, have focused on places where people fleeing from Nazi atrocities congregated...
by Matthew Gartner, Lauren Gatti, Andrew C. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s...
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
New Qing Imperial History
The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese...
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill
A Treasury of More than 1000 Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
An extremely entertaining compendium of bon mots, anecdotes, and trivia about Winston Churchill from a leading Churchill lecturer and performer -- useful for speakers, students, of history, and World War II buffs, as well as general readers.
The Naked Truth
The Naked Communist - Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This book is an analysis of a specific section in the book, The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, published in 1958. The section evaluated is entitled, "Current Communist Goals." From his FBI background, Mr. Skousen lists what he considered to be the top 45 Goals of the Communists, as of 1958. The...
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...