J J Patrick: 380 books
by Patrick J. Leach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
So often in my life I’ve felt lost, alone, at the mercy of huge and powerful forces. The universe was hostile, dangerous, vast and complex. I frequently felt helpless, depressed, fragile, and ultimately out of control.One night I was camping out, lying on the grass in total darkness in a...
by Patrick J. Geary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists...
The Politics of Deception
JFK's Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights Movement. Using recently released White House tape recordings...
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
Bill Clinton
New Gilded Age President
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: “There is no other period in the nation’s history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.” The era of...
Moral Combat
Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In family rooms across America, millions of children and teenagers are playing video games, such as Call of Duty, Halo, and Grand Theft Auto, roaming violent virtual worlds-with virtual guns in their hands.
In what sometimes seems like an increasingly violent world, it’s only natural to worry...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
by Patrick J. Palombo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Here is a no-holds barred acerbic, satirically humorous diatribe cauterizing religions and gods and doing so without the need to rely on scientific evidence. The book challenges believers to compare everyday common sense to grossly oxymoronic "non-sense" beliefs of the supernatural. Quotations...
American Rhone
How Maverick Winemakers Changed the Way Americans Drink
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
**"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal **
"This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic,...
Parks, Peace, and Partnership
Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of...
Partisan Priorities
How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Americans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment - a phenomenon called 'issue ownership'. Partisan Priorities investigates the origins of issue ownership, showing...
Dirty Boulevard
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Lou Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Inspired by the outcasts, outlaws, and other outré inhabitants of rock legend Lou Reed’s songbook, Dirty Boulevard traffics in crime fiction that’s sometimes velvety and sometimes vicious, but always, absolutely, rock & roll. Inside, you’ll find stories from the fire escapes to the underground,...
by Fiction River, Kevin J. Anderson, Kelly Washington
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Adrenaline. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction and fantasy to mainstream crime, these fifteen stories promise to make your pulse pound. Join an ex-president as he tries to escape the mother of all assassination attempts, a heroine on a mission straight from Hell, and a story of war...
Zombiefied Reloaded: The Search for More Brains
Zombiefied, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Zombies. Why did it have to be Zombies?
We’re Baaaaaaaaack! Because you can’t get enough of the shambling, walking dead, we’ve resurrected Zombiefied! to bring you 25 more of the most twisted, brain-devouring stories. You’ll groan over tales by Cynthia Ward, Terry M. West, Christie...