J Mitchell: 127 books
Reinventing the Automobile
Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun.
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a...
Stories I Tell My High School English Students
(For Encouraging a New Generation of Writers and Poets)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
I will forever cherish the life lessons I learned from Mr. Mitchell. I learned about love, about tragedy, about overcoming setbacks and I learned about myself. Shannon Suess I may not remember all the poems we read in AP class, but I will remember the man who taught me a lifelong love for poetry....
Trans-Atlantic Passages
Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1889-1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing. Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of the role the Boston Symphony played in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music.
The Shadow of Fear
Can a disgraced hero find redemption?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Redemption…a concept that disgraced SAS hero Ludovic Fear struggles with after a sentence in Scotland’s toughest prison. On release, Fear thinks his life just might get easier. Not so.
Instead, he hurtles towards an uncertain future as the unwilling enforcer for the Cyclops – the one-eyed...
Working Stiff
Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
“Fun…and full of smart science. Fans of CSI—the real kind—will want to read it” (The Washington Post): A young forensic pathologist’s “rookie season” as a NYC medical examiner, and the hair-raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being.
Just two months before...
by William J. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip.
by William J. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA.
The Capture of Attu
A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
In May 1943 US forces clashed with Japanese invaders in an epic battle on the Alaskan island of Attu. Fighting through the fog and icy rain, avoiding pot-shots from snipers in mountain crevices, lugging heavy machine guns up slippery inclines, and ultimately scaling a 250-foot cliff, the 17th Infantry...
Sir Gawain's Little Green Book
Two Tales from the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
Sir Gawains Little Green Book retells two of the classic stories about one of King Arthurs foremost knights.
The Green Knight takes its title and its story from the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
In The Green Knight Sir Gawain reminisces, looking back on his life...
by Philip Kuchel, Simon Easterbrook-Smith, Vanessa Gysbers
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.
More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents...
by J. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This book is a compendium of insights from sermons and books of great preachers of the Word of God. It illuminates how God created the world in six days following His blueprint. It reveals that man is created in the image of God. It explains the significance of the nation of Israel in Gods divine...
by J. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Ranger Jack Chastain returns to the canyons of New Mexico after fighting wildfires, and steps into a political firestorm. He wants to run, but a beautiful woman makes him take a stand. When mysterious provocations pit neighbor against neighbor, a battle between 'self interest' and 'do the right thing'...
Encounters Old and New in World History
Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their...
More Scottish than British
The 2011 Scottish Parliament Election
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Using official statistics, this book explores how the SNP managed to confound expectations and win a parliamentary majority in the 2011 Scottish General Election. Perhaps surprisingly, it was not constitutional politics or the return of the Conservatives to power in Westminster but domestic issues that decided the vote in the SNP's favour.