John D: 1272 books
Banking in Crisis
The Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first book to tell the story of the rise and fall of British banking stability over the past two centuries, shedding new light on why banking systems crash and on the factors underpinning banking stability....
The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence
Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Although there are many texts on the law of evidence, surprisingly few are devoted specifically to the comparative and international aspects of the subject. The traditional view that the law of evidence belongs within the common law tradition has obscured the reality that a genuinely cosmopolitan...
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
by John D. Kuhns
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
When your get-rich scheme involves John Gotti and Bruce Cutler, what could go wrong?
When Jack Davis got a call from Dennis Sparta, his sorta friend from South Florida, Jack’s life was doing great…good…well…just okay. Jack is broke, his brokerage business is lousy, his former girlfriend...
Raven's Redemption
A Cybertech Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Raven’s Redemption begins where Raven’s Run left off: Josie is recovering in a hospital in Oregon, and Raven, recuperating at a coastal estate in rugged Northern California. He feels responsible for putting her life in jeopardy. Josie is a sensitive paranormal who can do ‘remote viewings’ –...
Rome, Parthia and India
The Violent Emergence of a New World Order 150-140 BC
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Between 152 and 138 BC a series of wars from Africa to India produced a radically new geopolitical situation. In 150 Rome was confined to the western Mediterranean, and the largest state was the Seleukid empire. By 140 Rome had spread to the borders of Asia Minor and the Seleukid empire was confined...
The Hologram
Principles and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The practical and comprehensive guide to the creation and application of holograms
Written by Martin Richardson (an acclaimed leader and pioneer in the field) and John Wiltshire, The Hologram: Principles and Techniques is an important book that explores the various types of hologram in their...
Before Conflict
Preventing Aggressive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
In Before Conflict: Preventing Aggressive Behavior, John Byrnes gets to the heart of the concept of aggression prevention. Rather than look strictly at violence and all its implications_fatalities, crime, and assault_Byrnes instead chooses to look ahead, in order to prevent violence rather than simply...
by John D. Leshy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In recent times several “creation myths” have gained currency about how the United States government came to own and manage—for broad, mostly protective purposes—nearly one-third of the nation’s land. Controversies such as President Trump’s shrinking the boundaries of Grand Staircase–Escalante...
by John D. Mitchell, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. John Mitchell, is devoted to Surgery for Pulmonary Mycobacterial Disease. Dr. Mitchell has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Surgical treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease; Minimally...
by John D. Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This classic trickster is back again, and he's up to no good in his eighth and final book of the series. Great mix of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl.
Tom D. Fitzgerald--better known as The Great Brain--has turned thirteen, and...
A Game of Horns
A Red Unicorn Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion—and of a new unicorn herd.
A Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some...
Bright Orange for the Shroud
A Travis McGee Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
"McGee has become part of our national fabric."
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER
Usually women came to take refuge aboard The Busted Flush. But this time a man stumbled on board, a walking zombie who fell into bed. Turned out poor Arthur Wilkinson was the latest victim of a fragile-looking...
by John D. MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporation to his long list of conquests.
McGann's...