J William: 1364 books
The Crime of the Century
Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime.
On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless...
The Next American Economy
Blueprint for a Real Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
At a time when debate is raging about how to create jobs and revive
the American economy, veteran business writer William J. Holstein
argues that the best way for us to recover our economic footing is to do
what Americans do best-innovate and create new industries. Contrary to
the perception that...
by Richard A. Lertzman, William J. Birnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews, and with those who knew him best, including his heretofore unknown mistress of sixty years.
“I lived like a rock star,”...
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Stiflers of innovation, patent trolls use overbroad patents based on dated technology to threaten litigation and bring infringement suits against inventors. Trolls, also known as nonpracticing entities (NPEs), typically do not produce products or services but are in the business of litigation. They...
by William Walker Atkinson, Neville Goddard, Peter B. Kyne
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This is the fourth in our important Prosperity series. Now together for the first time are ten more of the most important books ever written on the subject of Wealth and Success. We’ve gathered another 1,000+ pages of the best advice and instruction that you’ll ever receive on how to become successful,...
The American South
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct...
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
by William J. Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Biography and Jazz music of William J Tennyson, Jr. (1923-1959), musician, singer and composer, affectionately called Bill. The story is about the life and musical brilliance of a young black composer, born into a musical family in New Orleans.
The theme is around jazz music, and Bills journey...
Hello, Gorgeous
Becoming Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“Masterful . . . Many books have been written about Streisand but few, if any, put readers as close to the subject as Mann does” (Miami Herald).
A legendary singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker with multiple Academy, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and even two Peabody awards to her name, Barbara...
Kate
The Woman Who Was Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image
Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine...
The Wars of the Roosevelts
The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.
Drawing...
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.
How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein,...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...