James L : 962 books
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West III
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A self-portrait of a great writer. A Short Autobiography charts Fitzgerald's progression from exuberant and cocky with "What I think and Feel at 25", to mature and reflective with "One Hundred False Starts" and "The Death of My Father." Compiled and edited by Professor James West, this revealing collection of personal essays and articles reveals the beloved author in his own words.
Art Students League of New York on Painting
Lessons and Meditations on Mediums, Styles, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
**A New York Times Gift Pick: Coffee Table Books About New York
A lushly illustrated, comprehensive guide to painting in all media from the prestigious visual arts education institution Art Students League of New York.**
The Art Students League of New York is America’s signature art...
The Fall of Buster Keaton
His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his 1925 work, The General, placed at number 18...
by Earl Schenck Miers, Richard A. Brown, James L. Robertson Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Originally published in 1948, this book tells the story of the three fateful days of Gettysburg in the words of the men and women who lived it. No mere chronicle of troop movements and military decisions, it is a path-breaking work in the reporting of Civil War history. Praised by "The New York...
by James L. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER! In his new young-adult book on the Kennedy assassination, James Swanson will transport readers back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American...
Mickey Spillane on Screen
A Complete Study of the Television and Film Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
In the mid–20th century, Mickey Spillane was the sensation of not just mystery fiction but publishing itself. The level of sex and violence in his Mike Hammer thrillers (starting with I, the Jury in 1947) broke down long-held taboos and engendered a near hysterical critical backlash. Nonetheless,...
by James L. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Calculating the Value of the Union
Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James...
How to Read the Bible
A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” (The New York Times), “wonderfully interesting, extremely well presented” (The Washington Post), and “a tour de force...a stunning narrative” (Publishers Weekly). Now in its tenth year of...
Building up of the Numbers
God’S Fingerprint
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
To James Anderson, the number twenty-three was only a birthday number, until God opened his mind and awareness to other important dates of the number twenty-three as well. God, also, gave him a fresh revelation of other numbers and stories behind those numbers, which would change his understanding of numbers forever!
Catholic Spirit
Wesley, Whitefield, and the Quest for Evangelical Unity in Eighteenth-Century British Methodism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
The relationship between John Wesley and George Whitefield has often been viewed as suffering from irreconcilable theological differences. In fact, for several years, the relationship between these two leaders of the revival of the Christian faith in eighteenth-century England was strained almost...
The Ultimate Prescription
What the Medical Profession Isn't Telling You
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Would you like to discover the powerful ways God is part of the healing process? Do you think the media, the government, or your doctor is telling you the whole truth when it comes to health care? Are you tired of taking medications that really don't fix the problem? In The Ultimate Prescription,...
Catholic High Schools
Facing the New Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes: the shift to primarily lay leadership and teachers; the transition to a more consumerist and pluralist culture; and the increasing diversity of students attending Catholic high schools. James Heft argues that to navigate...