For the past decade, the Starbucks Coffee chain has ballooned from 11 stores in Seattle to a major company with over 1,000 outlets throughout the nation. This is the story of how this extraordinary company combined coffee, commerce, and community into a dynamic force in business. The authors offer entrepreneurs, marketers, and managers innovative ...
Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. ...
From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men ...
The bestselling Raintree trilogy is now in one exciting volume. This collection includes "Inferno" by Howard, "Sanctuary" by Beverly Barton, and "Haunted" by Linda Winstead Jones. Original.
Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favourite writers. Here, at last, is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, the wolf of the steppe, Khlit the Cossack. Journey now with the unsung grandfather of sword and sorcery in search of ancient tombs, gleaming ...
Crucible of Power is an updated, revised version of Howard Jones's classic text Quest for Security: A History of U.S. Foreign Relations from 1897. This book, available again for use in the classroom, presents a straightforward, balanced, and comprehensive history of American international relations and the major events in the nation's foreign ...
For the past decade, the Starbucks Coffee chain has ballooned from 11 stores in Seattle to a major company with over 1,000 outlets throughout the nation. This is the story of how this extraordinary company combined coffee, commerce, and community into a dynamic force in business. The authors offer entrepreneurs, marketers, and managers innovative ...
The world's leading gynecologic surgery reference for 60 years, "TeLinde's Operative Gynecology" is now in its revised Tenth Edition. In this new edition, TeLinde's leads the field with bold initiative in its first attempt to synthesize the best way for surgical procedures. This classic text is rooted in the Johns Hopkins tradition of gynecologic ...
Established for over 50 years as the world's leading gynecologic surgery reference, TeLinde's "Operative Gynecology" is now in its revised Ninth Edition. This classic text remains rooted in the Johns Hopkins school of surgical thought and provides encyclopedic coverage of the etiology, diagnosis, and step-by-step surgical treatment of benign and ...
Published to coincide with Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie "Amistad", this is the story of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Howard Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinque led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. Allowing only the ...
In "Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom" Howard Jones explores the relationship between President Lincoln's wartime diplomacy and his interrelated goals of forming a more perfect Union and abolishing slavery. From the outset of the Civil War, Lincoln's central purpose was to save the Union by defeating the South on the battlefield. No less ...
In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of American-owned assets. In little more than a year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower concluded that ...
In this path-breaking biography, James H. Jones unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Drawing from ...
A master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, Khlit the Cossack, the 'wolf of the steppes'. You can journey with the unsung grandfather of sword and sorcery in search of ancient tombs, ...
A master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, Khlit the Cossack, the "wolf of the steppes." You can journey with the unsung grandfather of sword and sorcery in search of ancient tombs, ...
A portrait of the principal architect of the sexual revolution. This book aims to show that the public image Kinsey cultivated of a disinterested biologist, was in fact a carefully crafted public persona.
This book is the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history in which African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home - the mutiny led by Joseph Cinque, a black African, in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave-ship AMISTAD in the Caribbean.
'An attractively written, cogently argued study that merits a prominent place on the bookshelves of Anglo-American and Civil War scholars' - "Journal of American History". 'Jones offers a fresh revision ...on why England failed to intervene in the American fratricidal struggle...[His] book combines a delightful writing style with excellent ...
Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913 presents a straightforward, balanced, and comprehensive history of American international relations from the American Revolution to 1913. This core text demonstrates the complexities of the decision-making process that led to the rise and decline of the United States (relative to ...
Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here, at last, is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, the wolf of the steppe, Khlit the Cossack. Journey now with the unsung grandfather of sword and sorcery in search of ancient tombs, gleaming ...
This Vietnam War-era history focuses on the very troubled relationship between the Diem regime in Vietnam and the Kennedy administration in Washington. Jones asserts that Kennedy, dissatisfied with Diem's corruption and duplicity, had formulated an extrication strategy that was not put into place because the war quickly became a front-page news ...
WAR AND LOVE takes us into the field operating rooms just behind the murderous front lines of World War II. Howard Jones, then a 33-year-old surgeon, Army Medical Corps, records his first experience:
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