J Michael: 2158 books

Along with the Dodgers and Prospect Park, Abraham & Straus was a legendary piece of Brooklyn's history and identity. From Abraham Abraham's modest store of 1865, A&S developed into one of America's largest department stores. It eventually became a charter member of the powerful Federated Department...

Michael J. Lisicky is the author of several bestselling books, including Hutzler’s: Where Baltimore Shops. In demand as a department store historian, he has given lectures at institutions such as the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Historical...

Affectionately called "Woodies" by loyal Washingtonians, the beloved department store Woodward & Lothrop stood at the heart of downtown for over a century. Crowds flocked to the flagship store on the F Street shopping corridor to find better service and the season's fashions. The store and its employees...

This book is designed to help bodyguards, security personnel and others how to properly complete threat analysis. It covers several different kinds of threats. It teaches threat profiling, threat analysis, understanding threat, threat modelling, target selection, advantages of the attackers and The Herrhausen Factor.

This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of...

Jim Morrison, in all his sensitivity and bombast blast into stardom in the late 1960s as the lead singer of The Doors. Were the beams of his star manipulated and mastered by sinister forces while he stood by rejecting authority? Did the turmoil inside the poet drive him into the spotlight only to...

The fascinating tale of Hollywood powerhouse Paramount Pictures--beginning with its birth in the 1910s through the turbulent decade of the 1930s--was told in Early Paramount Studios by Marc Wanamaker, Michael Christaldi, and E.J. Stephens. Now the same authors are back to tell the next 60 years of...

Libya's Moammar Qaddafi ran one of the most terrifying police states in the world before an armed rebel movement tore his repressive regime apart. In the Land of the Brother Leader is award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten's alterately humorous, creepy, and occasionally touching portrait of a brutalized nation just a few short years before the end of an era.

In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard,...

桑德爾：思考「正義」，才能促使我們思考最好的生活方式。 ★全世界最有影響力的政治哲學家，引領當代思潮的重要指標 ★引燃全球公共辯論火苗，跨世代熱烈品讀經典 ★哈佛大學最受歡迎、最具影響力的一門課 ★美國電視史上第一次向公眾播放的大學課程 博大精深、文筆流暢且深富人文關懷，這是能夠真正改變人的讀物。──《出版人週刊》 ◎關注當代最容易被忽略的議題、最切身相關的困境 社會和政治讓人充滿挫折感，究竟出了什麼問題？有沒有第三種可能？如果我們希望過好自己的人生，扮演良好的公民角色，就無法迴避這些問題。本書作者桑德爾為哈佛大學政治哲學教授，被譽為當代最有影響力的思想家之一，其蘇格拉底式的對話互動式教學為人津津樂道，亦實踐了學術平民化 的精神。「正義」課程至今已累積超過一萬五千名修課人次，使得哈佛大學首次決定將一門課製作成電視節目在美國公共電視播出，成為美國電視史上第一次向公眾播放大學課程。這十二個小時的課程被瘋狂轉寄，日本NHK...

From the New York Times bestselling authors of In the Company of Heroes comes a thrilling account of military aviation for history buffs and “for those who love vivid tales of battlefield heroics” (Publishers Weekly). In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously...

This book is written in a manner to teach basic skills in choosing, care for and using bodyguarding defensive weapons which includes personal firearms and protective vests. To those who are starting out in the profession, those who want to increase their knowledge and also gives an in-depth look as to what bodyguards are expected to do, and the equipment they need to do it.

This book is a compliation of 100 humorous observations from a middle-aged dad about life, marriage, and parenting in middle-America in the 21st century.               

A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed...