Jr Jr : 7350 books

Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has...

"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book Review With poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes...

The cause of the crash of an Air France Lockheed Super Constellation off the Atlantic Coast of Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa, has never been fully determined. Flight 343 was preparing to land when it was inexplicably lost in a rainstorm. All 63 persons on board, including a flight crew of 8, were...

an introduction to the Iron Hand training method of 18 Daoist Palm Tiet Sau ( Iron Hand in Chinese)renamed TestsuTe ( Iron Hand ) in Japanese to allow Karate practitioners the ease of bringing this system of training into their workouts.

Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston—one of the first to draw national headlines—and the dramatic investigation and court case...

This book is intended to be a Fun semi-historical book on the history of Polyhedra, both Platonic and Archimedean as well as special construction methods to make them. This book is of interest to everyone, from the casual reader seeking to understand 3D solids to the serious hobbyist looking...

WARNING: Extremely funny! Enjoy the best of the best jokes that don't (always) make sense JOKES THAT MAKE YOU LAUGH + What's yellows and flies through walls? A magic banana. + A bologna sandwich walks into a bar and the bartender says, "I'm sorry, but we don't serve food here". + Incontinence hotline ... can you hold, please? ... and many other jokes of the same kind!

William Frank Buckley Jr.’s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that...

The long and storied career of Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. one of the nation's finest speakers, has carried him from work on the civil rights front lines in the South to the National Urban League to positions of influence at the highest level of business and politics. A friend and confidant to presidents,...

Guess what? The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states’ rights—an idea reviled today—were even more important than the Constitution’s checks and balances. The “Wild” West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most...

The term ‘big data’ has become the new buzzword in today’s data filled society. With all the hype, however, has come a sense of confusion around what the term really means. Questions are now rising to the surface such as:What is big data?What is data science?Why do you need your data explained?Can...

Two brothers share adventures and a bond that not even death can break in Ghost Brother, a collection of outdoor tales of the supernatural by award-winning writer Harry Guyer Jr. Youll meet the old man, his ghostly brother Roy, and Roys little ghost dog Queenie as they ramble through the woods and...

"How Far The Mountain" is the story of a man, a woman, and a mountain. The woman, from the city, must go to the mountain to discover who she is after her husband's death from cancer. The man, a cowboy, must force himself to go to the mountain and make a shrine from the bones of 'Texas Lady,'...

Two giant commercial airplanes collided above the Grand Canyon on the morning of June 30, 1956. Both planes had taken off from a Los Angeles airport approximately three minutes apart from one another. The crash brought calls for increased airline regulations and the FAA was created in the aftermath...