John M: 1445 books
Rising Tide
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million...
Sewing Hope
How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent...
Getting It Done
1,ooo of the Best Kept Secrets for Success in Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
WHAT IS GETTING IT DONE ABOUT?
It provides real life examples of how anyone at any age can get ahead in life and business. It’s about inspiration and motivation, and it contains hundreds of stories that range from getting started in business to selling your company. It’s also all about...
The Light, the Dark, Blackness
Life Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
This is a motivating book that can touch the lives of teenagers as well as adults. It is flamboyant and undeviating. Dr. Joseph Brown Strength, Comfort, Joy, Vision,Motivation, Education, Courage, and Truth: These are a few things that this book will bring to the readers. The Light is journeys full...
Slowly, I Start to See
The Person I Want to Be
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In 2013 my father fell seriously ill, as his life changed so did our relationship. As I watched his life slip away, I began to re-examine my own life. Thats when I decided to chronicle my journey through this period of change. The traps that I fell into while trying to live up to the ideals he had...
by John M. Brewer Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
African Americans in Pittsburgh chronicles the distinct trends in this African American community. There was never one centralized neighborhood where a majority of the black population lived, and city schools were integrated until after desegregation laws were passed. Photographs captured by famed Pittsburgh...
In the Game: Music and Multiple Sclerosis
A Memoir of Success and Unexpected Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
In the Game: Music and Multiple Sclerosis begins with the author’s story of his rise and success in the music profession. Described as “being in the game,” he lays out his method for success in one of the most difficult professions in America. Following a quick rise as a professional musician,...
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings
A Collection of Songs from Polynesia and Asia for Piano and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.
In one sense it is a musical picture of the renowned harmonious blend...
Paul
A Very Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.’
(Galatians 3.28)
The revolutionary writings of St Paul have had an incalculable impact on Western history, and continue to influence directly the two billion...
by Seneca, John M. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1995
This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker intimately...
by John M. Del Vecchio
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
A work that has served as a literary cornerstone for the Vietnam generation, The 13th Valley follows the strange and terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese Army. Spiraling...
by Lieutenant Colonel John M. Sullivan Jr USMC
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
After careful study of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, why did the British and the Americans come up to contradictory operational conclusions regarding the future applicability of amphibious operations? Divergent views from the lessons of Gallipoli campaign are the result of three differing operational...
William Stanley as Shakespeare
Evidence of Authorship by the Sixth Earl of Derby
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Presenting striking new evidence, this book shows that “William Shakespeare” was the pen name of William Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby. Born in 1561, he was educated at Oxford, travelled for three years abroad, and studied law in London, mixing with poets and playwrights. In 1592 Spenser recorded...
Chaucer's Neoplatonism
Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Troilus and Criseyde, the discussion in Chaucer’s Neoplatonism includes the dream visions as well as aspects of The Canterbury Tales. It lays out Chaucer’s Boethian-inspired, cognitive approach, drawn mainly from Book V of the Consolatio, to whatever subject he treats. Far from courting skepticism,...