James A : 1347 books
Food Allergy E-Book
Expert Consult Basic
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Definitive yet concise, Food Allergy, by Drs. John M. James, Wesley Burks, and Philippe Eigenmann, provides expert guidance for efficient diagnosis and effective management of these increasingly prevalent conditions. The consistent, practical format, with a wealth of case studies, clinical pearls...
Maryland, My Maryland
Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War,...
by Major James A. Huston
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
During World War II, James A Huston served as an operations officer in the 3rd Battalion, 134th Infantry, a unit that helped to liberate or capture dozens of cities across France, Belgium, and Germany. From July 1944 through April 1945, the regiment captured 8,974 prisoners of war and covered over...
by James A. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Lightly tracing his personal experiences growing up in the Bible Belt as a born-again Christian, James A. Sanders recounts his second rebirth experience and subsequent efforts to battle what can most broadly be called evangelicalism's denial of dignity and human worth to those different from the so-called...
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The Daily Express Chronicles, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The final chapter in the Daily Express Chronicles series.
Katie Cannon, Trevor Trevaniann and other characters from Deadline and The Scorpion return topursue new adventures and news stories.
Terrorist mastermind The Scorpion also returns to cause more havoc in a new jihad. This time...
Thomas Kuhn's Revolutions
A Historical and an Evolutionary Philosophy of Science?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This new edition of Thomas Kuhn's Revolution marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kuhn's most influential work. Drawing on the rich archival sources at MIT, and engaging fully with current scholarship, James Marcum provides the historical background to the development of The Structure...
Kepler's Witch
An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Set against the backdrop of the witchcraft trial of his mother, this lively biography of Johannes Kepler – 'the Protestant Galileo' and 16th century mathematician and astronomer – reveals the surprisingly spiritual nature of the quest of early modern science.
In the style of Dava Sobel's...
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what...
Shiny Objects
Why We Spend Money We Don't Have in Search of Happiness We Can't Buy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A. Roberts takes us on a tour of America's obsession with consumerism—pointing out its symptoms, diagnosing specific problems, and offering a series of groundbreaking solutions.
Roberts...
An Archaeology of Social Space
Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area...
Jazz:West Records
Art Pepper on Jazz:West and Intro Records
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A history of the Jazz:West label established by Herb Kimmel in 1954. Jazz artists recorded by Kimmel include: Jack Sheldon, Walter Norris, Zoot Sims, Jane Fielding, Kenny Drew, Joe Maini, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, James Clay, Julius Wechter, and Art Pepper. Additional chapters examine Art Pepper's...
The Chicago of Fiction
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching...
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
by James A. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts,...