Jr Williams: 56 books
American Land Planning Law
Case and Materials, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The materials in American Land Planning Law are derived from decades of experience in teaching planning law at six planning schools and three law schools. Among the hypotheses included here, two are clearly vindicated in the reading. The first involves basic tenets in the approach referred to as "legal...
Like a Loaded Weapon
The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in the...
Exilic Existence
Contributions of Black Churches in Prince Edward County, Virginia During the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Reflections from Friends and fellow Ministers I met The Reverend J. Samuel Williams, Jr., on the campus of Shaw University in 1959, and I am privileged to call him a friend for more than fifty years. Having known him as I have, I am not surprised but greatly impressed with the fact that he has seen...
by Earnest L. Williams, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This children's book about one family's experience with ADHD helps kids, their parents, teachers and others understand why they can't sit still, talk too much, have difficulty following directions and paying attention. The book includes "Parent's Corner", an ADHD resource section. About the story: As...
by John D. Williams Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
In this zany, one-of-a-kind memoir, former executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association John D. Williams Jr. brings to life the obsessions, madness, and glory of the SCRABBLE® culture—from living-room players to world champions.
Beginning his career on a lark as a freelance contributor...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
The Miseducation of the Student Athlete
How to Fix College Sports
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The student-athlete’s life: practice, gym, weight room, film review, repeat. Simply put, sports come first. Academics is a distant second.
As the revenues generated by big-time college sports continue to skyrocket, virtually all of the debate involves whether (and how much) student-athletes...
by Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Frank Belknap Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are...
by James McKimmey, Jr., H. B. Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’...
by Willie Gene Williams Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
For many years, it has been said that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. However, what happens when a person doesn't even realize that he or she is wasting something so valuable? What happens when a person believes that what he or she is doing is beneficial and not detrimental to his or her happiness...
by Wilbert Williams Jr. M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In July 1978, Dr. Wilbert Williams Jr. was standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, New York, afraid for his life. It had been less than three months since he was awarded a medical degree from Albany Medical College in upstate New York; yet there he wasenduring racial slurs from a group of angry white...
L'Enfant Terrible
Memoirs of a Twentysomething and This Thing Called Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Growing up gay and Black in rural conservative East Texas presented its many challenges, however, L'Enfant Terrible is an intimate memoir about a young man and his personal journey through life, the many challenges we all face, spiritual growth, love, heartbreak, with many moments of enlightenment....
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Bent Pins to Chains
Alaska and Its Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
This book began in the mid 1970s, after historian and author Evangeline Atwood finished her sixth book on Alaska. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner executive Charles Gray and Ketchikan Daily News publisher Lew Williams Jr. urged her to write a history of Alaska newspaper. She finished a manuscript, "A...