L James: 962 books
Becoming a Leader of Character
6 Habits That Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
While many books focus on developing managerial competencies, most leadership failures are the result of a failure in character, not a failure in competence. But, just like how you don’t get in shape by reading a fitness magazine, you don’t become a Leader of Character by reading a book on Character....
End of Days
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that...
by James L. Neibaur
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
While the western was a staple of cinema for many decades, the form began to fade as its greatest star, John Wayne, made fewer films of distinction toward the end of his career. In the mid-1960s, the genre was redefined by a handful of directors, including Don Siegel and Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone,...
Reign of Iron
The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack...
A Darker Sea
Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812.
At the opening of the War of...
by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Seabury Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Weird Tales' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, 'Weird Tales' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. 'Weird Tales' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer...
The Perfect Hour
The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring.
Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt...
Butterfly in the Rain
The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
On December 17, 1927 in Los Angeles, twelve year old Marion Parker, daughter of a prominent banker, was called to the school office where a stranger told her that her father had been in an accident and that she must leave with him right away. Fewer than 48 hours later, she was dead.
What started...
by C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Originally published in 1950, this analysis by three respected activists successfully predicted the future course of Marxism. Their revolutionary critique of industrial civilization possessed a striking originality that was insular in its political context and optimistic in its expectations for the...
by James L. Gelvin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. The Syrian civil war has displaced half the country's population, and ISIS and other jihadi groups thrive in the political vacuum there and in Iraq, setting...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict
One Hundred Years of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Now entering its third edition, James L. Gelvin's award-winning account of the conflict between Israelis and their forebears, on the one hand, and Palestinians and theirs, on the other, offers a compelling, accessible and current introduction for students and general readers. Newly updated to take...
by James L. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights. Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856–59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
by James Leo Garrett, Jr., Paul F.M. Zahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Perspectives on Church Government presents in counterpoint form the basic models of church government which have developed over the course of church history with a view toward determining which is most faithful to Scripture. Each chapter will be written by a prominent person from within each tradition—with...