Michael J : 2158 books

Book cover of Rescue of the Bounty

Rescue of the Bounty

Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

by Michael J. Tougias, Douglas A. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On...
Book cover of Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know®
by Michael J. Gerhardt
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018

Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know® is the step back and deep reflection on the law of impeachment that everyone needs now. Written in an accessible and lively question-and-answer format, it offers a timely explanation of the impeachment process from its very meaning to its role in politics...
Book cover of National Security and Double Government
by Michael J. Glennon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" - the President,...
Book cover of An Introduction To The Wildflowers of Baldoyle
by Michael J. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

An illustrated guide with detailed captions of about 120 native wild flowers of the area of Baldoyle, County Dublin, in Ireland.
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The Rocket and the Reich

Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era

by Michael J. Neufeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. It was a stunning achievement, one that heralded...
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Following the Master

A Biblical Theology of Discipleship

by Michael J. Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

In the aftermath of the waves of discipleship programs that have swept over the church in the last 30 years, clergy, and laypersons alike are more confused than ever about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. What should a disciple of Jesus look and act like today? What is the relationship...
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Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition

A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea

by Michael J. Everhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs,...
Book cover of Nicholas
by Michael J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

It was supposed to be a simple human-interest story, the kind of fluff piece hard-nosed reporter Brett Davis begrudgingly accepts only because his job is at stake. But when his newspaper editor sends him to the northernmost point of Europe to interview the head of a secretive monastery, Brett encounters...
Book cover of Why the Torah Begins with the Letter Beit
by Michael J. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998

Why does the Torah begin with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet? In seeking answers to this question, Michael J. Alter has gathered a wealth of material drawing from the Oral Law (Mishnah and Talmud), the Midrash, anonymous kabbalistic texts, and the works of many prominent rabbis, scribes, and writers spanning the past 2,000 years.
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McCarthyism

Memories of a Blacklisted Bert Corona

by Michael J. Lynch, Carlos Larralde
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Carlos Larralde has crafted a study of Bert Corona, a California Latino civil rights activist.  This alone is a significant accomplishment.  As the reader will undoubtedly surmise, hard copy source materials were scant.  This is due primarily to the dearth of paperwork and notes available.  This,...
Book cover of Wild Birds of Baldoyle: An Introduction
by Michael J. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

A brief description of the most common and numerous wild birds to be seen in the area of Baldoyle, County Dublin, Ireland. There are many illustrations included, both photograph and drawing by the author
Book cover of Topheth
by Michael J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014

Special Agent Janelle Becker teams back up with Detective Curtis Bold to uncover the tracks of a serial arsonist burning churches in Rochester, NY. His targets pass all racial and religious boundaries, and his message of judgment becomes peculiarly focused on Janelle herself even as things heat up...
Book cover of A Postcard from Baldoyle
by Michael J. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

This book brings to the reader the postcard publishing history of this area of North County Dublin in Ireland. A small village its children's' hospital, ladies' holiday home, and horse racecourse provided sufficient visitors to warrant souvenir postcards. The hey-day of the postcard...
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The Soccer Diaries

An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game

by Michael J. Agovino
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Although soccer had long been the world’s game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise and turned...
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