J Michael: 2158 books
Yorktown's Civil War Siege
Drums Along the Warwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward Richmond. Blocking his path were Major General John B. Magruder's Warwick-Yorktown Line fortifications and the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. Despite outnumbering Magruder almost...
A Long Dark Night
Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was...
by J. Michael Niotta PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Early movers and shakers of Los Angeles didn't always operate within the confines of the law, including opportunist and family man Big George Niotta, who supplied sugar to make illegal liquor. Niotta rose to prominence thanks to his magnetic charm and collaborations with infamous bootlegger Frank...
Political Assassinations and Attempts in US History
The Lasting Effects of Gun Violence Against American Political Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The long, dark history of political violence in the United States.
Violence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political murders, such as when Julius Caesar was felled...
The Catholicisms of Coutances
Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350-1789
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Catholicisms of Coutances is a richly detailed account of France from the Hundred Years' War to the French revolution. Coining the word "catholicisms" to denote the complex varieties of religious beliefs and practices within the Church, J. Michael Hayden presents a detailed analysis of the diocese...
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans...
Psychology of Fraud
Integrating Criminological Theory into Counter Fraud Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Estimates reveal that insurance fraud costs $80 billion per yearand thats just in the United States of America. That translates into almost $1,000 annually per household.
Weak preventative controls and paltry punishments make insurance fraud particularly attractive to criminals, who often use...
Ainsi parla l'Oncle
suivi de Revisiter l'Oncle
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Ainsi parla l'Oncle, premier manifeste de la négritude, paru en 1928, est le grand livre sur la condition noire, sur la relation à l'Afrique et à sa culture. Lire aujourd'hui Ainsi parla l'Oncle pour découvrir un geste essentiel. Revisiter l'Oncle Vingt-quatre auteurs relisent Ainsi parla l'Oncle...
by J. Michael Straczynski
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
All stars J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods send readers into the last day of the Machine War! John Connor's once-certain victory is in jeopardy, as the psychopathic Thomas Parnell has taken control of the Terminator army and threatens to crush both sides! With mankind on the verge of extinction...
by J. Michael Straczynski
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A-listers J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods unite for the Terminator event thirty year in the making! In 2029, John Connor and the resistance prepare for the final assault on Skynet, but the malicious computer intelligence has laid the seeds in 2003 for its counterattack! Integrating the mind...
by J. Michael Straczynski, Gary Frank
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Il capolavoro di J. Michael Straczynski e Gary Frank in un'edizione ricca di contenuti speciali. Oltre ai dodici numeri della maxiserie, questo eBook presenta lo speciale 1/2, un’inedita postfazione del famoso scrittore e studi per la realizzazione delle tavole. L'edizione definitiva della storia...
Simply Speaking with God
Inspirational Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Poet J. Michael suddenly found himself all alone in a difficult situation. As a spiritual person, he asked God to touch him in some special way that would bring purpose back to his life. He has found that purpose in writing poetry.
As he wrote poem after poem, he began to realize that he was...
Finding Our Way
Love and Law in The United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Questions and conflict about homosexual practice and the church abound. We encounter media reports of same-gender unions and clergy trials. This leads to talk in congregations and district preacher's meetings, in the hallways at district, conference and general church gatherings, and in the deliberations...
by J. Michael Zenn
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Newly revised and updated, this electrifying guide has been praised by doctors, health experts, and readers who have taken their own self-health challenge. Describing himself as “an ordinary guy who discovered an extraordinary secret,” which he now feels compelled to share with everyone, J. Michael...