Jim: 5732 books
Chicago to Springfield
Crime and Politics in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
The story of Chicago gangsters in the 1920s is legendary. Less talked about is the tale of the politicians who allowed those gangsters to thrive. During the heyday of organized crime in the Prohibition era, Chicago mayor �Big Bill� Thompson and Gov. Len Small were the two most powerful political...
The Illuminati
The Secret Society That Hijacked the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Chilling initiations. Big banks and money manipulations. Possible links to the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Adamses, and Bushes. Reviewing the evidence, documents, and connections, The Illuminati: The Secret Society That Hijacked the World by award-winning journalist and author Jim Marrs shines a light...
Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace
From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Would your routine office fire drill be able to handle the large-scale chaos of a major disaster? Can you get everyone out safely in the face of a factory fire, explosion, or natural disaster? In Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace: From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions, Jim Burtles leads...
by Jim Brown; Ralph Coney
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Ralph Coney was an engineer with Cunard before becoming a lecturer with the department of Marine Engineering at the Southampton Technical College. During the ensuing 27 years he saw the College become the Southampton Institute of Higher Education. For 14 years of this period he was the resident Warden...
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing...
by Jim Grimsley
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. On a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina, a dreamy eight-year-old is pushed headlong into the adult world by a violent quarrel between his parents. Jim Grimsley's brilliant first novel unfolds in a strikingly...
by Jim Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Jim Woods was a sports hunter writer, outdoorsman and game hunter. Follow his journey from his early beginnings in the Navy through many hunting adventures, both in the Eastern and Western hemispheres as he searches for and bags trophy game.
by Jim Perrin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Long recognised as one of Britain's finest mountain writers, this collection brings together the best of Jim Perrin's essays and articles on climbing.Perrin has selected these from four decades of describing and commenting on the experience of rock-climbing and the characters of the climbing community...
by Jim Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
The book that inspired the movie JFK recounts Jim Garrison's attempt to solve the Kennedy assassination, and describes how Garrison was harrassed because of his allegations of government involvement in Kennedy's death.
Tales from the Miami Hurricanes Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Hurricanes Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
University of Miami football is more than national championships, thirty-game winning streaks, and being a pipeline to the NFL. It’s the Gator Flop, defeating Tulane on a fifth down, and playing three games in eight days. It’s converting third and 44 against Notre Dame, Michael Irvin talking smack...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The trucker's job-so vital to our nation's everyday life-makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.
This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and...
Fanatic
Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
The sport lover's ultimate road trip
When Jim Gorant, a Sports Illustrated staffer and lifelong sports fan, discovered that he had never attended a single one of sports' most iconic events, he wondered, What kind of sports fan am I, anyway? And if he had to pick the top ten, what would those...
Battlelines: Gettysburg, Day 1
Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
What did the battle of Gettysburg look like?
Despite the vast number of photographs associated with the Civil War, we have no photos of the battles themselves. The state of photography at that time could not stop action as it does today.
But we DO have pictures.
They are the drawings...
by Jim McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
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The Who drummer Keith Moon was a totally incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up and who changed the lives of all who knew him, a phenomenal character and an extravagant...