George James: 287 books

Book cover of The Old Dominion
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

I wrote to you, my dear sister, from the pretty little town of Baltimore; and I hope you have received my letter. Although this so speedily follows it, my only motives for writing are, to occupy idle time, and to relieve your mind from apprehension regarding my safety during my passage through all the...
Book cover of Wesleyan Methodist Sermons
by William M. Punshon, John H. James, Joshua Priestley
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

The Sermons which make up this volume were preached at Malvern, in 1866, at, and immediately after, the opening services of the Wesleyan Chapel there.   This beautiful and commodious building owes its erection to the piety and energy of the Rev. W. M. PUNSHON, who, in the year 1862,...
Book cover of Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South
by Michele L. Aldrich, Daniel D. Arden, Martha Coleman Bray
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014

Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South offers nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States. Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between...
Book cover of How to Select an American President

How to Select an American President

Improving the Process by Promoting Higher Standards

by James A. George
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017

Presidential campaigns often seem like popularity contestsand that needs to change. While some savvy American voters are becoming more reflective about the need to carefully pick presidents, that hasnt stopped the system from being eroded by special interests that endanger our liberty and freedom. The...
Book cover of Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Supported Measures of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
by George F Ronan, Laura Dreer, Kimberly Maurelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013

​​This book contains three sections. Part I includes an introductory chapter and an applied chapter on conducting a risk assessment.  Part II provides a description of how the measures were organized and quick-view tables that provide easy access to measures with enough information to allow for...
Book cover of Advances in Heat Transfer
by Thomas F. Irvine, George A. Greene, Young I. Cho
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 1998

Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles over a broader scope than is allowablein either journals or texts.
Book cover of Natural Product Extraction

Natural Product Extraction

Principles and Applications

by Maria Angela Meireles, Miguel Palma, Farid Chemat
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015

Natural products are sought after by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, and research continues into their potential for new applications. Extraction of natural products in an economic and environmentally-friendly way is of high importance to all industries involved. This book...
Book cover of Paths to State Repression

Paths to State Repression

Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics

by George Aditjondro, Christian Davenport, Ronald Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000

In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic...
Book cover of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Designing Great Web Sites is Not Rocket Science!

by Jason Beaird, James George
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is the ideal book for people who can build websites, but are seeking the skills and knowledge to visually enhance their sites. This book will teach you how to: Understand what makes "good design," from discovery through to implementation Use...
Book cover of The Convict: A Tale
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It may be very well in most cases to plunge, according to the rule of the Latin poet, into the middle of things. It may be very well even, according to the recommendation of Count Antoine Hamilton, to 'begin with the beginning.' But there are other cases where there may be antecedents to the actual story,...
Book cover of Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History
by James George Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

It may be reckoned a peculiar piece of good fortune that among the wreckage of classical literature the Description of Greece by Pausanias should have come down to us entire. In this work we possess a plain, unvarnished account by an eye-witness of the state of Greece in the second century of our...
Book cover of Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It was a dark and stormy night,—a very dark night indeed. No dog's mouth, whether terrier, mastiff, or Newfoundland, was ever so dark as that night. The hatches had been battened down, and every aperture but one, by which any of the great, curly-pated, leaping waves could jump into the vessel, had...
Book cover of A Whim and Its Consequences
by George Payne Rainsford James
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses. Is it the chamber of a sick man? He must sleep sound if it be, for there is no noise--not even a breath; and all without...
Book cover of THE FATE: A Tale of Stirring Time
by George P.R. James
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

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...
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