James A: 1347 books
Countering Heedless Jihad
Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Using concepts that are not already a part of the militant discourse as a way to undermine extremism, Countering Heedless Jihad explores a stratagem aimed at defusing jihadist ideology. It explains how to counteract idealist theology using concepts from it, borrowing ideas from some revered Islamic...
by Wylie, James A.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
This work describes succinctly the conflicts they waged and the martyrdoms they endured in defence of their faith and their liberty, and is published in the present form to meet the requirements of those who take a special interest in this remarkable people. Recent events in Europe have brought the...
The Walrus and the Elephants
John Lennon's Years of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement...
by James A. Kushlan, Kirsten N. Hines
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
*Best Nonfiction Book about Florida Award for 2015 from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association*Key Biscayne is an island paradise umbilically connected to Miami by a three-and-a-half-mile-long causeway. Its recorded history is one of the longest in North America, starting five centuries ago with...
by James A. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same...
Learning 2D Game Development with Unity
A Hands-On Guide to Game Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The Unity Engine Tutorial for Any Game Creator
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Unity is now the world’s #1 game engine, thanks to its affordability, continuous improvements, and amazing global community. With Unity, you can design, code, and author your game once, and then deploy it to multiple platforms, reaching...
The Last Civilized Place
Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Set along the Saharas edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold...
Getting to Excellence
What Every Educator Should Know About Consequences of Beliefs, Values, Attitudes, and Paradigms for the Reconstruction of an Academically Unacceptable Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This book is about a journey with the Center for Strategic Alliances in Education for School and District Improvement with stakeholders in a school targeted for school improvement. The first chapter puts into context the notion of school, its purpose and the incumbent variables of values, attitudes,...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, this book argues whether the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but...
by James A. Bultema
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
For 162 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are todays LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850. Thoroughly researched over eight years, containing...
by James A. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The original script was sold to a major Hollywood studio virtually overnight; the screenwriter was working as a pool boy and driver for the producer; the director was considered an “acid freak” by the studio heads; the star was a 74-year-old actress who didn’t know how to drive a car. The film...
Summers with Lincoln
Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A journey across America revealing “the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today” (The Washington Times).
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory...
by James A. Misko
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In his novel The Cut of Pride, Jim Misko does something that is rare in modern literature: he writes about hard, brutal, unpleasant physical labor. And he does so with such vivid detail that the labor itself becomes one of the story’s major entities. His cast of complex, dysfunctional characters—owners...
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant...