L James: 962 books
Mickey Spillane on Screen
A Complete Study of the Television and Film Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
In the mid–20th century, Mickey Spillane was the sensation of not just mystery fiction but publishing itself. The level of sex and violence in his Mike Hammer thrillers (starting with I, the Jury in 1947) broke down long-held taboos and engendered a near hysterical critical backlash. Nonetheless,...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
by James L. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Calculating the Value of the Union
Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James...
How to Read the Bible
A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” (The New York Times), “wonderfully interesting, extremely well presented” (The Washington Post), and “a tour de force...a stunning narrative” (Publishers Weekly). Now in its tenth year of...
Building up of the Numbers
God’S Fingerprint
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
To James Anderson, the number twenty-three was only a birthday number, until God opened his mind and awareness to other important dates of the number twenty-three as well. God, also, gave him a fresh revelation of other numbers and stories behind those numbers, which would change his understanding of numbers forever!
Catholic Spirit
Wesley, Whitefield, and the Quest for Evangelical Unity in Eighteenth-Century British Methodism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
The relationship between John Wesley and George Whitefield has often been viewed as suffering from irreconcilable theological differences. In fact, for several years, the relationship between these two leaders of the revival of the Christian faith in eighteenth-century England was strained almost...
The Ultimate Prescription
What the Medical Profession Isn't Telling You
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Would you like to discover the powerful ways God is part of the healing process? Do you think the media, the government, or your doctor is telling you the whole truth when it comes to health care? Are you tired of taking medications that really don't fix the problem? In The Ultimate Prescription,...
Catholic High Schools
Facing the New Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes: the shift to primarily lay leadership and teachers; the transition to a more consumerist and pluralist culture; and the increasing diversity of students attending Catholic high schools. James Heft argues that to navigate...
In the Valley of the Shadow
On the Foundations of Religious Belief
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
TEN YEARS AGO, Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer. “I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music had suddenly stopped—the music of daily life that’s constantly going, the...
Schooling the New South
Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological...
The Ladder of Jacob
Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, tricked...