J Nelson: 131 books
Dirty Waters
Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties—but nothing could...
How To Tell If Your Lawyer is C.R.A.P.
the essential guide for all involved in civil litigation
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Civil Litigation is a lottery. It’s expensive, risky, stressful and time consuming - and there’s no guarantee of success at the end of it all.
Litigation is bad enough in itself, but equally uncertain is whether you will get good advice from a Solicitor. Will they tell you the true costs?...
by J. Nelson Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
There is no statute of limitations for murder. And former nightclub owner Josie Chapman knows it. In the genteel heart of Charleston, SC, a secret buried for forty-four years, is resurrected with dire implications for Josie, his wife and his two closest friends. The Merch is a taut, viscerally acute...
by Gerald Bray, Alan W. Gomes, J. Nelson Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The biblical teaching about the deity of Christ is a precious truth and foundational to the Christian faith. It has been called “the most distinctively Christian doctrine of all”—one that must be taught and preserved.With this in mind, Robert Peterson, Christopher Morgan, Andreas Köstenberger,...
Jehovah-Rapha: The God Who Heals
72 Story-Based Meditations and Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Jehovah-Rapha: The God Who Heals features 72 comforting and encouraging meditations and stories based on healing scriptures. Written by author, speaker, pastor of prayer, and cancer survivor, Mary J. Nelson, Jehovah-Rapha will point you to God, the Ultimate Healer. Nelson shares the Word without compromise,...
Decades of Chaos and Revolution
Showdowns for College Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Decades of Chaos and Revolution: Showdowns for College Presidents is the story and comparison of two eras in the history of higher education. The first era covers the period of the 1960s through the mid-1970s, and the second is the first decade of the twenty-first century. Both decades were marked...
White Hat
The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845–1884) was one of the Old Army’s renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself...
Jehovah-Jireh: The God Who Provides
60 Story-Based Meditations and Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Compelling Teaching on Relevant Scriptures, Plus Passionate Prayers and Engaging Testimonies of God’s Power
As followers of Jesus, we have been grafted into Abraham’s family tree and receive the same blessings God promised him (Romans 11:17).
We are God’s children, and everything He...
The Sound of Innovation
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.
In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel...
That is Not Me
A Journey of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
That is Not Me: A Journey of Perception is based on a poem the author wrote during her early twenties. Growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, L.J. Nelson struggled to understand who she was as a Little Person diagnosed with Achondroplasia. During that time, very little scientific or medical research...
by Michael J Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why do some people retain cute baby-talk names for their relatives (like "Num-Num" and "Pee-Paw") well into middle age? How should a reasonable person respond when Olivia Newton-John sings, "Have you never been mellow?" Who's responsible for the sorry state of men's fashion,...
by Barbara J. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research,...
Doing the Best I Can
Fatherhood in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine...
Apocalypse and Allegiance
Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its first-century context, opening a window into the political, economic, and social realities of the early...