J Jones: 316 books

Seeking greater accountability in higher education, many states have adopted performance funding, tying state financial support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance based on specific outcomes such as student retention, progression, and graduation. Now in place in over...

Join the author - a skeptical-yet-curious legal geek - on her clandestine foray into the world of alternative healing, psychics, and past lives.  Add an ill-fated leap of faith and an opinionated old-soul of a horse, and what starts as a why-not experiment ultimately leads to healing a lifetime...

Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless...

A myth from the colonial period was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in times of crisis. Unfortunately, providing national defense is more complicated that that; indeed it was more complicated even during the Revolutionary...

At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes...

The commentators tell us that the phrase “the Gospel of Jesus Christ” may mean one of two things. (a) It may mean the Gospel which Jesus Christ Preached. (b) It may mean also the Gospel of which Jesus Christ is the subject.   It is in this latter sense Mark uses the phrase here....

This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...

Streams around the world flow toward the sea in floodplains. All along this transit, there is exchange of water between the stream itself and the surrounding sediments which form the floodplain. Many chemical, biological, and geological processes occur when water moves back and forth between streams...

Overcome giants and experience a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. When it comes to their spiritual journey, many men feel defeated. Hindered by 'giants' they stand motionless feeling like wimps instead of warriors. Whether they feel intimidated, unmotivated, or just downright out...

Showdown in Desire portrays the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1970, a year that included a shootout with the police on Piety Street, the creation of survival programs, and the daylong standoff between the Panthers and the police in the Desire housing development. Through interviews with Malik...

The concept of “fandom” has been revolutionized over the past 20 years because of various technological, cultural, and communicative advancements. Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan: Communicative Approaches explores the elements of the sports fan that have markedly changed since the turn of the...

This volume provides an introduction to dessins d'enfants and embeddings of bipartite graphs in compact Riemann surfaces. The first part of the book presents basic material, guiding the reader through the current field of research. A key point of the second part is the interplay between the automorphism...

ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY QUOTED VERSES IN THE WHOLE OF THE BIBLE IS THAT VERSE IN WHICH THE PROPHET ISAIAH SPEAKS OF THE RESULTS OF “WAITING UPON GOD.” “THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD,” HE SAYS, “SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH.”   And the proof he gives that the people who thus...

I do not know whether it is legitimate to make comparisons between the miracles. Dr. Plummer says it is not. He says that to the philosophic believer in miracles all genuine miracles are alike. “When natural causes are inadequate, and a supernatural cause is admitted, all degrees of difficulty are...