T James: 415 books
First Thrills: Volume 1
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a cross section of today's hottest thriller-writing talent. This original collection...
by James T. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
When Jason Prophet is hired by his best friend to guard a hauntingly beautiful woman from Japan, he not only falls in love, he finds his best friend murdered. After the woman disappears, Prophet swings into action, following a trail of drug smugglers that leads to Japan.
Soon he’s in the Land of...
You Are What You Choose
The Habits of Mind That Really Determine How We Make Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The hidden patterns behind the way we make decisions
Several recent books, from Blink to Freakonomics to Predictably Irrational, have examined how people make choices. But none explain why different people have such different styles of decision making—and why those styles seem consistent...
Middle Passages
African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage,? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans...
Toward Democracy
The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day. In the...
The Eve of Destruction
How 1965 Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
e much more staid recordings of contemporary acts like Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews, and the Supremes, reflecting an alienation from mainstream American culture shared by an increasing number of young Americans.
In The First Year of the Sixties, James T. Patterson traces the transformative...
by James T. Schleifer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, Democracy in America continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. The work is, however, as challenging as it is important; its arguments can be...
Corporate Welfare
Crony Capitalism That Enriches the Rich
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of...
Brown v. Board of Education
A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation...
The Education of Barack Obama
From Reading Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
If you really want to know what makes Barack Obama tick, you need to understand his education. James T. Kloppenberg explains the rich American intellectual tradition that shapes Obama's beliefs and influences his actions--particularly his aversion to absolutes and his commitment to compromise. This...
The Divorce Handbook
Your Basic Guide to Divorce (Revised and Updated)
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Since its first publication in 1982, The Divorce Handbook has sold over 200,000 copies. In this new and fully revised edition, specialist in family law James T. Friedman covers, in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, all the issues involved in negotiating a separation and divorce--how to choose...
Fort Concho
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. For centuries, this high open plateau had remained barren except for passing expeditions or Native American hunting parties. The establishment of Fort Concho provided...
by James T. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
When detective Jason Prophet discovers his ex-partner and one-time lover, Lynn McColl, is missing he begins searching for her. When people she's been working with start turning up dead, he doubles down, fighting thugs, the police and even the FBI—anyone who stands in his way—to rescue the woman...
Texas Ranger Indian Tales: Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker: At the Massacre At Parker's Fort; Her Years With The Comanche; Rescue By Captain Ross, of the Texian Rangers
Texas Rangers Indian Wars, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
"Texas Ranger Indian Tales: Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker: At the Massacre At Parker's Fort; Her Years With The Comanche; Rescue By Captain Ross, of the Texian Rangers", by James T. DeShields recounts from original sources, including the Texans involved, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker.
Cynthia...