Michael J: 2158 books

A close escape from the police. A surprise invitation to Thanksgiving. A sweet but foolish family. A chance to score big.Just a normal Thursday in November for a low-level street punk like Justin. What Justin never counted on was how this day would challenge him about his habits, his beliefs,...

In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community...

Michael J. McManus’s study of political abolitionism in Wisconsin demonstrates the overriding importance of slavery-related issues in bringing on the political crisis of the 1850s and the American Civil War. In the years prior to the war, the political struggle to free enslaved blacks and block...

Some friendships are written in the stars. Thirty years after their high school graduation, former best friends, Joe and Chad, accidentally meet again in an Orlando hotel. But there will be nothing accidental about the chain of events which lead the middle-aged pair on the run from gangsters,...

The story of railway, tram, and bus in this area of North Dublin in Ireland. This book brings together data from the previously published The Train To Howth and chapters from author's other publications. Many photographs, maps, and illustrations add to the depth of information in this book covering the life of the railway companies in the area from 1844 to the present date.

This book gives a short explanation of the origins of placenames in the area of the old village of Baldoyle in County Dublin, Ireland.

In 1806, when retired sea captain and religious activist Christopher Prince (1751-1832) began to write his lifes story, he wanted simply to leave his family a record of his experiences. Today, his autobiography survives as one of the extremely rare participants accounts of seafaring during the American...

In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative...

This is the book I would, long ago, have loved to own. It would have saved me from much anguish, doubts and confusion. Containing over fifty years of my experience, Entering the Secret World of Nature is a brilliant and comprehensive guide on how you can enter realms of wonderment. We are not prisoners...

“I am aware of how misleading words can be; take the spiritual path, as an example. There is no path, yet this no-path has to be walked to learn that it does not exist. The gulf of separation is another example; there is no gulf of separation, yet we have to cross the gulf to learn that it is the...

It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident...

Throughout his childhood and during his twenty years of professional service in the New Zealand Army, author Michael J. Roberts repeatedly heard a message: grown men dont cry. To cope with lifes ups and downs, Roberts put on a mask and effectively concealed his emotions behind itthat is, until he...

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath. His original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain has been called the Magna Carta...

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and...