James Jones

James Jones
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0252068378
ISBN-13 : 9780252068379
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis James Jones by : Willie Morris

He also recounts Jones's race against the clock to finish Whistle, the culmination of his World War II trilogy, which Morris himself completed after his friend's death in 1977."--BOOK JACKET.

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 984
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ISBN-10 : 034071753X
ISBN-13 : 9780340717530
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis From Here to Eternity by : James Jones

An epic of World War II, this novel reflects the exciting, tumultuous and brutal world inhabited by soldiers and the women they love. It portrays the consuming conflicts of a generation set afire by the passions and savagery of war.

The Perfect Fit

The Perfect Fit
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 0192774611
ISBN-13 : 9780192774613
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Perfect Fit by : Naomi Jones

No matter how hard she tries, Triangle doesn't roll like the circles, or stack like the squares. She sets off to find friends that look exactly like her. But when she finds other triangles, playtime isn't as fun. She misses shapes that roll and stack; she misses being different. So she starts a new quest.

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 717
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ISBN-10 : 9781453215678
ISBN-13 : 1453215670
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Thin Red Line by : James Jones

With “shattering prose,” the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle). In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, and one in nine did not return. James Jones fought in that battle, and The Thin Red Line is his haunting portrait of men and war. The soldiers of C-for-Charlie Company are not cast from the heroic mold. The unit’s captain is too intelligent and sensitive for the job, his first sergeant is half mad, and the enlisted men begin the campaign gripped by cowardice. Jones’s moving portrayal of the Pacific combat experience stands among the great literature of World War II. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Whistle

Whistle
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 642
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781453215616
ISBN-13 : 1453215611
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Whistle by : James Jones

DIVDIVThe third novel in Jones’s classic World War II trilogy: a moving story of four World War II infantrymen coping with the difficulties of recovering at an army hospital and learning to readjust to the home front/divDIV /divDIVAt the end of a long journey across the Pacific, a ship catches sight of California. On board are hundreds of injured soldiers, survivors of the American infantry’s battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. As the men on deck cheer their imminent return to their families, wives, and favorite girls, four stay below, unable to join in the celebration. These men are broken by war and haunted by what they learned there of the savagery of mankind. As they convalesce in a hospital in Memphis, the pain of that knowledge will torment them far worse than any wound./divDIV /divDIVThe third of James Jones’s epics based on his life in the army, this posthumously published novel draws on his own experiences to depict the horrors of war and their persistence even after the jungle is left behind./divDIV /divThis ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate. /div

Go to the Widow-Maker

Go to the Widow-Maker
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 1031
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ISBN-10 : 9781453215524
ISBN-13 : 1453215522
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Go to the Widow-Maker by : James Jones

DIVDIVA playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea diving/divDIV /divDIVRon Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an ice queen who considers him her personal trophy, his thoughts are back in New York City, with a beautiful young girl he met a few days before he left town. As the stress bears down on him, the brilliant playwright goes nearly to pieces before he finds his salvation under water./divDIV /divDIVOn his first deep-sea dive, Grant falls in love with the haunting beauty of the reef. He returns as soon as he can, staying longer and swimming deeper until all his problems seep away. But a man can’t breathe underwater forever—and his obsession will drive him to take increasing risks that will change his life forever./divDIV /divThis ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate. /div

Some Came Running

Some Came Running
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 1327
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781453215760
ISBN-13 : 145321576X
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Some Came Running by : James Jones

James Jones’s saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his daughter, Kaylie Jones After the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity, James Jones retreated from public life, making his home at the Handy Writers’ Colony in Illinois. His goal was to write something larger than a war novel, and the result, six years in the making, was Some Came Running, a stirring portrait of small-town life in the American Midwest at a time when our country and its people were striving to find their place in the new postwar world. Five decades later, it has been revised and reedited under the direction of the Jones estate to allow for a leaner, tighter read. The result is the masterpiece Jones intended: a tale whose brutal honesty is as shocking now as on the day it was first published. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Prejudice and Racism

Prejudice and Racism
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages : 612
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105017717427
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Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Prejudice and Racism by : James M. Jones

Primarily discussing black-white relations, this book provides a useful paradigm for examining and understanding broader issues of prejudice and racism, and allows students to understand the factors which lead to these contemporary social problems.

Bad Blood

Bad Blood
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780029166765
ISBN-13 : 0029166764
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Bad Blood by : James H. Jones

The modern classic of race and medicine updated with an additional chapter on the Tuskegee experiment's legacy in the age of AIDS.

Religion and Psychology in Transition

Religion and Psychology in Transition
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300129380
ISBN-13 : 0300129386
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion and Psychology in Transition by : James W. Jones

In this thought-provoking book, clinical psychologist and professor of religious studies James W. Jones presents a dialogue between contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary theology. He sheds new light on the interaction of religion and psychology by viewing it from the perspective of world religions, providing an epistemological framework for the psychology of religion that draws on contemporary philosophy of science, and bringing out the importance of gender as a category of analysis. Developments in psychoanalysis provide new resources for theological reflection, Jones contends. The Freudian view that human nature is isolated and instinctual has shifted to a vision of the self as constituted in and through relationships. Jones uses this relational model of human nature to explore the convergence between contemporary psychoanalysis, feminist theorizing, and themes in religious thought found in a variety of traditions. He also critiques the reductionism inherent in Freud's discussion of religion and proposes nonreductionistic and genuinely psychoanalytic ways for psychoanalysis to treat religious topics. For therapists, psychologists, theologians, and others interested in spiritual or psychological issues, Jones offers illuminating clinical material and insightful analysis.