Jennings: 609 books
Maphead
Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, “a literary gem” (The Atlantic).
Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library...
Moral Hazard
Text Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind.
An unlikely candidate, then, for the job of executive speechwriter, to be putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious...
The Serving Leader
Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Serving Leader
Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community, 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded
It's people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this...
Planet Funny
How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian...
Sing Me Back Home
Love, Death, and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
The years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of twang. Country music's giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: "Folsom...
A Texas Ranger (Illustrated)
2018 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In 1874, Napoleon Augustus Jennings moved to Texas to join the Rangers under the command of L. H. McNelly. A year later, Jennings was thrown into the conflict between the native Spanish speaking Americans and the English speaking whites who came to settle the area. In an era of cattle thieving and...
Carry the Rock
Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In 1957, nine African American teenagers faced angry mobs and the resistance of a segregationist governor to claim their right to educational equality. The bravery of the Little Rock Nine, as they became known, captured the country's imagination and made history but created deep scars in the community.
Jay...
by Justin Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari civilizations as case studies,...
Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools
The Politics of Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
April 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the landmark legislation that has provided the foundation of federal education policy in the United States. In Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools, longtime policy analyst Jack Jennings examines...
They Cage the Animals at Night
The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1985
The heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy’s horrific journey through the American foster care system.
On a misty evening in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch’s mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, “I’ll be...
by Elizabeth Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
This volume draws on the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points and includes the poems which established her as one of the most passionate and precise of writers of her time, a woman of humane values, religious vision and natural sympathy.
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Changing America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elementary school days in the conservative South, where "faggot" became more familiar to him than his own name....
Being Jazz
My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Get ready for season 4 of the popular TLC show I Am Jazz! Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings—named one of “The 25 Most Influential Teens” of the year by Time—shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their...
by Patrick Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Bat and Rat are two best friends living in the big city. Together these nocturnal pals enjoy their favorite things, like riding the subway, dumpster diving in Chinatown, writing songs, and playing in a band. One hot summer night, while tasting their favorite flavors of ice cream, like mosquito ripple,...