John M: 1445 books

This early work by John M. Oskison was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Biologist's Quest' is a short story about a collector looking for an illusive short tailed rat. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection...

Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country. Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their homelands, while others come from...

Is the Union voluntary or an agreement with no escape route? Setting the tone, John M. Taylor leads off by noting the travails of a respected ancestor. Major questions in America are explored, including differing views of the meaning of union. Though numerous issues led to war, most modern establishment...

The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian...

Why have the churches been unable to make sense of Jesus to the population? This is not the same as getting people into places of worship. Sometimes more people did come to church. Adults had nothing more interesting to do. The children came to Sunday school. Times changed. Quickly it became clear...

Some children in Russian orphanages will be forever changed by an adoption and some will be left behind. To Sing Frogs, a memoir authored by John M. Simmons, tells the deeply personal tale of the Simmons family and their quest to adopt five children from rural Russia. Readers venture deep into Russia...

In Deceit on the Road to War, John M. Schuessler examines how U.S. presidents have deceived the American public about fundamental decisions of war and peace. Deception has been deliberate, he suggests, as presidents have sought to shift blame for war onto others in some cases and oversell its benefits...

Pardoned: Prayers and Promises for Prisoners sensitively addresses the emotions and needs of so many who are incarcerated.  The author, John M. Robertson, has a gift for using the written word to meet special needs.  Choosing scripture promises which touch the hurts and fears of individuals,...

Because the Future Matters: Let’s Stop Letting Modern Economics and Our Energy Addiction Ruin Almost Everything! takes as its starting point the importance of the fundamental role that energy in one form or another has always played—and will always play—in the economic life of human beings.Very...

Does Dick Cheney have any thoughts about Iraq and President Obama's administration's middle eastern policies? Does Dick Cheney, retired Vice President of the United States, have a conscience? Does Dick Cheney's conscience speak on its own? Does Dick Cheney's conscience do interviews? Does Dick Cheney's...

Donny the Drone, a sentient blogging United States military unmanned fix winged aerial mechanical vehicle, conducts a heartfelt interview with the phrase “The War on Terror”. The topics of discussion include ISIS, the Cheney Administration, Neoconmen, Muslim No Go Zones, the TPP (Trans Pacific...

President Trump’s Pee Pee Tape sits down with the phrase Representation Without Taxation, host of the Fakest Fake News Show where topical sentient words, phrases and objects discuss and uncover the fictional truth fueling the week’s fakest news. President Trump’s Pee Pee Tape and Representation Without Taxation will discuss RussiaGate and the 2020 election.

It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and finally legislatures as institutions. The studies in Term Limits in State Legislatures demonstrate that...

Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made...