James T : 415 books
by James T. Schleifer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, Democracy in America continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. The work is, however, as challenging as it is important; its arguments can be...
Corporate Welfare
Crony Capitalism That Enriches the Rich
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of...
Brown v. Board of Education
A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation...
The Education of Barack Obama
From Reading Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
If you really want to know what makes Barack Obama tick, you need to understand his education. James T. Kloppenberg explains the rich American intellectual tradition that shapes Obama's beliefs and influences his actions--particularly his aversion to absolutes and his commitment to compromise. This...
The Divorce Handbook
Your Basic Guide to Divorce (Revised and Updated)
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Since its first publication in 1982, The Divorce Handbook has sold over 200,000 copies. In this new and fully revised edition, specialist in family law James T. Friedman covers, in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, all the issues involved in negotiating a separation and divorce--how to choose...
Fort Concho
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. For centuries, this high open plateau had remained barren except for passing expeditions or Native American hunting parties. The establishment of Fort Concho provided...
by James T. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
When detective Jason Prophet discovers his ex-partner and one-time lover, Lynn McColl, is missing he begins searching for her. When people she's been working with start turning up dead, he doubles down, fighting thugs, the police and even the FBI—anyone who stands in his way—to rescue the woman...
Texas Ranger Indian Tales: Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker: At the Massacre At Parker's Fort; Her Years With The Comanche; Rescue By Captain Ross, of the Texian Rangers
Texas Rangers Indian Wars, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
"Texas Ranger Indian Tales: Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker: At the Massacre At Parker's Fort; Her Years With The Comanche; Rescue By Captain Ross, of the Texian Rangers", by James T. DeShields recounts from original sources, including the Texans involved, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker.
Cynthia...
by James T. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
It’s 1968. J.J. Parker, an 18 year old art student, makes friends with Daniel, one of only two black students attending his college. When J.J. meets Daniel’s sister, Jasmine, he instantly falls in love with her. But in the American South of 1968, that presents a big problem. Soon, Daniel is murdered...
by James T. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Melissa Joyner is a young scientist who discovers an unknown species of apes on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. The apes are not only intelligent but can speak. They have their own language. Their own culture. Their own way of seeing the world.
Melissa manages to capture one of the apes—a young...
Night Beaching
An Unscrupulous Captain Tangles with Some Ýgatorý Navy Reserve Officers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
James T. Cheatham is a retired attorney who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a graduate of the NROTC program at the University of North Carolina in 1957 and served two years on active duty in the Pacific on an amphibious ship (LST). He retired as a Commander in the Naval Reserves in 1979...
Airpower
The Decisive Force in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
“Without question, the decisive force in the Korean War was airpower. Through its unrelenting efforts in those dark days of the summer of 1950, U.S. and other U.N. ground forces were able to retain a foothold on the peninsula. During the three years of fighting that followed, defeat or victory often...
by James T Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
A land plagued by dragons. A sword only he can wield. A quest that could save his realm... or doom it forever.
Thomas Rymour is the prophet who cannot lie, in service to a powerful duke. But when an elf lord hatches a plot to steal a legendary sword, Tom is forced to break his oath in order...
Subsidizing Culture
Taxpayer Enrichment of the Creative Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects,...