George James: 287 books

Book cover of The Ripple Effect
by James George
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

The Ripple Effect is the story of an addict who first went to prison at the age of sixteen and, over the next fifty years, spent forty-seven incarcerated.
Book cover of The Sociology of Katrina

The Sociology of Katrina

Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe

by Carl L. Bankston III, John Barnshaw, Christine Bevc
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores...
Book cover of John, Volume 36

John, Volume 36

Revised Edition

by George R. Beasley-Murray, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
Book cover of Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Contact with the Natural World
by Lorraine Robertson, Marie-José Enders-Slegers, Johanna M. Wigg
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways...
Book cover of The Man in Black
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Book cover of Richelieu: A Tale of France (Complete)
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

THE vast Sylva Lida, which in the days of Charlemagne stretched far along the banks of the Seine, and formed a woody screen round the infant city of Paris, has now dwindled to a few thousand acres in the neighbourhood of St. Germain en Laye. Not so in the time of Louis the Thirteenth. It was then...
Book cover of The Convict
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016

Book cover of Delaware: The Ruined Family (Complete)
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Most cities are hateful; and, without any disposition to "babble about green fields," it must be owned that each is more or less detestable. Nevertheless, amongst them all, there is none to be compared as a whole to London;--none which comprehends within itself, from various causes, so much of the sublime...
Book cover of Henry of Guise: The States of Blois (Complete)
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It was as dark and sombre a morning, the sky was as gloomy, the earth as dry and parched, as earth, sky, and morning ever appear in the most northern climates. A dull grey expanse of leaden cloud shut out the blue heaven, a hard black frost pinched up the ground, the blades of grass stood stiff and...
Book cover of The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

There is no mistake more common among historians, no mistake more mischievous, than to take for granted, without deduction, all the statements of the satirists and splenetics of past-by ages as to the manners and customs of their own times, and of the people with whom they mingled. There are half a dozen,...
Book cover of Philip Augustus or The Brothers in Arms
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Very few words of preface are necessary to the following work. In regard to the character of Philip Augustus himself, I have not been guided by any desire of making him appear greater, or better, or wiser than he really was. Rigord his physician, William the Breton, his chaplain, who was present at...
Book cover of De L'Orme
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

I was born in the heart of Bearn, in the year 1619; and if the scenery amongst which we first open our eyes, and from which we receive our earliest impressions, could communicate its own peculiar character to our minds, I should certainly have possessed a thousand great and noble qualities, that might...
Book cover of Leonora D'Orco

Leonora D'Orco

A Historical Romance

by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016

Book cover of Morley Ernstein, or, the Tenants of the Heart: A Romance
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Pouvons-nous pas dire, qu'il n'y a rien en nous, pendant cette prison terrestre, purement, ni corporel ni spirituel? asks good old Montaigne, and certain it is that in many an act where we imagine the body alone takes part, the spirit has as great a share; and in many a thought where the mind seems to...
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