Alexander Harris's Books

This Will Not Pass

Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

By: Jonathan Martin,Alexander Burns

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

This Will Not Pass

Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

By: Jonathan Martin,Alexander Burns

The “blockbuster” (The Guardian) New York Times bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposes the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This is the authoritative, “deeply reported” (The Wall Street Journal) account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House. From Donald Trump’s assault on the 2020 election and his ongoing campaign of vengeance against his fellow Republicans to the behind-the-scenes story of Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate and his bitter struggles to unite the Democratic Party, this book exposes the degree to which the two-party system has been strained to the point of disintegration. More than at any time in recent history, the long-established traditions and institutions of American politics are under siege as a set of aging political leaders struggle to hold together the changing country. Martin and Burns break news on most every page, drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before-seen documents and recordings from the highest levels of government. This “masterful” (George Stephanopoulos) book asks the vitally important (and disturbing) question: can American democracy, as we know it, ever work again?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

480

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982172495

ISBN 13

9781982172497

The A to Z of Mormonism

By: Davis Bitton,Thomas G. Alexander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The A to Z of Mormonism

By: Davis Bitton,Thomas G. Alexander

Mormonism is the unofficial name for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which originated in the early 1800s. Mormonism refers to the doctrines taught by Joseph Smith, doctrines that are believed to be original gospel preached by Jesus Christ. The Mormons oppose abortion, homosexuality, unmarried sexual acts, pornography, gambling, tobacco, consuming alcohol, tea, coffee, and the use of drugs. Despite its relatively young age, the Mormon Church continues to grow, and today it contains about 13 million members. The A to Z of Mormonism relates the history of the Mormon church through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, churches, beliefs, and events. Clearing up many of the misconceptions held about Mormonism and its members, this is an essential reference.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

358

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810870606

ISBN 13

9780810870604

Homicide: Life on the Street

By: Lisa Doris Alexander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Homicide: Life on the Street

By: Lisa Doris Alexander

Analysis of race, racism, and the criminal justice system on Homicide: Life on the Street. Renowned for its unique visual style, Homicide: Life on the Streetfundamentally changed the police procedural genre. The show broke records, featured memorable characters, and launched careers—most notably that of David Simon, whose own nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, inspired the series, and who went on to create both The Wireand Treme. Homicide was an anomaly in the 1990s for its honest and open portrayals and discussions of race, and in this TV Milestone, Lisa Doris Alexander uses Critical Race Theory as a lens to highlight how the show illustrated the impacts that racial politics can have on policing. Homicide is one in a long line of police procedurals that date back to the early days of broadcast television, with series such as Dragnet (NBC 1951–59), Hawaii Five-O (CBS 1968–80), and Columbo (NBC 1971–78). But because Homicide takes place and was filmed in the majority-Black city of Baltimore, it makes sense that many of the main and supporting cast are Black. This differentiated it from the other shows of its genre and time. Chapter 1 discusses the Black-starring roles on Homicide in terms of being non-stereotypical and both written and performed as well-rounded, complex characters. Chapter 2 focuses on issues of race and racism and their impact on policing. Chapter 3 looks at other power dynamics, such as class, political clout, and social standing, and how those dynamics intersect with race and the criminal justice system's perceived neutrality. In many regards, Homicide was ahead of its time. Alexander argues that Homicide reflects the politics of the Black Lives Matter movement, which in turn highlights the fact that the issues brought up by the movement are long-standing and that the series affirms the critiques BLM activists make about the criminal justice system. This book shows that the series' oftentimes unflinching commentary on the systemic flaws within the criminal justice system not only feels more at home in today's television and political landscape than it did in the 1990s but is just as relevant. Fans of the works of David Simon, as well as students and scholars of television studies and Critical Race Theory, will enjoy this enlightening book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

118

Publisher

Wayne State University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0814348688

ISBN 13

9780814348680

Geschwülste / Tumors I

Morphologie, Epidemiologie, Immunologie / Morphology, Epidemiology, Immunology

By: P. Alexander,G. Chomette,H. Hamperl,D. K. Hossfeld,L. G. Koss,R. Laumonier,H. F. Oettgen,M. F. Rajewsky,A. A. Sandberg,L. H. Sobin,H. Tulinius,S. Watanabe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Geschwülste / Tumors I

Morphologie, Epidemiologie, Immunologie / Morphology, Epidemiology, Immunology

By: P. Alexander,G. Chomette,H. Hamperl,D. K. Hossfeld,L. G. Koss,R. Laumonier,H. F. Oettgen,M. F. Rajewsky,A. A. Sandberg,L. H. Sobin,H. Tulinius,S. Watanabe

Bald nach Erscheinen des Bandes "Geschwülste" "Geschwiilste" 1956 1956 wurde wurde deutlich, deutlich, daß daB dies dies nur ein Anfang gewesen sein konnte. Die grundlegenden Beitrage Beiträge dieses Bandes spiegelten den Wissensstand am Beginn des 6. Jahrzehnts wider. Sie waren wahrscheinlich zugleich die letzten echten Handbuchbeitrage Handbuchbeiträge zu diesem Thema: umfassend und enzyklopadisch enzyklopädisch vollständig vollstandig und trotzdem als Ganzes lesbar, verfaßt verfaBt von den damals besten Sachkennern in Deutschland. Inzwischen hat sich das Handbuch der Allgemeinen Pathologie gewandelt. Entsprechend der Weitung des Faches vergrößerten vergroBerten sich die Themen. Neben den Bänden Banden tiber über die die Organe Organe zum zum Hilfsmechanismus Hilfsmechanismus des des Stoffwechsels, Stoffwechsels, tiber über die die Zelle, Zelle, das das Altern Altern usw. usw. nahm sich der Geschwulstband vergleichsweise bescheiden aus. Das steht im Gegensatz zur Stellung des Geschwulstproblems in der Allgemeinen Pathologie. Die Krebsforschung erfuhr gerade in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten einen vorher nicht geahnten Aufschwung, so daß daB eine eine enzyklopädische enzyklopadische Zusammenfassung Zusammenfassung heute heute den den Umfang Umfang des des gesamten gesamten Handbuches Handbuches einnehmen einnehmen würde wtirde -- wenn wenn sich sich jemand fände, rande, das das zu zu versuchen. versuchen. Und wenn der letzte Band gedruckt wäre, ware, ware wäre der erste hoffnungslos veraltet.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

875

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3642658954

ISBN 13

9783642658952

The Rattling of the Chains

By: Errol D. Alexander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rattling of the Chains

By: Errol D. Alexander

This is a thoroughly enjoyable and lucidly written book. The author provides an accurately reconstructed history of his family from an African slave trader named Jasinto in the eighteenth century to the year 2013. Also a series of lessons on doing genealogical research is supplied in the appendixes. It is a riveting and a must read for those who study the African American experience and the history of slavery in America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

559

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1503528391

ISBN 13

9781503528390

Secrets of Closing Sales

6th Edition

By: Charles B. Roth,Roy Alexander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Secrets of Closing Sales

6th Edition

By: Charles B. Roth,Roy Alexander

The #1 bestseller on the art of closing sales is now fully updated to meet the challenges of today’s competitive new sales environment—with 53 case studies drawn from real life. The sixth edition features the newest selling tactics and strategies, the latest products, and the new salesperson/customer relations. Among the newer methods covered are critical path selling, group selling and teleconferencing, strategic selling, consultative selling, conceptual selling, empathic selling, and key account selling. Plus, you’ll also discover, step-by-step, the secrets of how to: • Analyze the customer’s psyche to determine your selling strategy • Cash in on the callbacks and follow-up visits • Make more effective use of the telephone • Get great leads from satisfied clients • Profit from telemarketing • Make sure a closed sale stays closed Highlighted by actual real-world examples that demonstrate these successful strategies and techniques in action, Secrets of Closing Sales gives you the tested tools you need to double or even triple your current income. “The appeal of this . . . is in the stories and closing lines collected from master salespeople. You’ll be struck by how simple and effective many techniques are.”—Executive Book Summaries

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

409

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0136715125

ISBN 13

9780136715122

The Story of the Mormons

By: William Alexander Linn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Story of the Mormons

By: William Alexander Linn

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HOW JOSEPH SMITH BECAME A MONEY-DIGGER The elder Smith, as we have seen, was known as a money- digger while a resident of Vermont. Of course that subject was a matter of conversation in his family, and his sons were of a character to share in his belief in the existence of hidden treasure. The territory around Palmyra was as good ground for their explorations as any in Vermont, and they soon let their neighbors know of a possibility of riches that lay within their reach. The father, while a resident of Vermont, also claimed ability to locate an underground stream of water over which would be a good site for a well, by means of a forked hazel switch,1 and in this way doubtless increased the demand for his services as a well-digger, but we have no testimonials to his success. The son Joseph, while still a young lad, professed to have his father's gift in this respect, and he soon added to his accomplishments the power to locate hidden riches, and in this way began his career as a money-digger, which was so intimately connected with his professions as a prophet. Writers on the origin of the Mormon Bible, and the gradual development of Smith the Prophet from Smith the village loafer and money-seeker, have left their readers unsatisfied on many points. Many of these obscurities will be removed by a very careful examination of Joseph's occupations and declarations during the years immediately preceding the announcement of the revelation and delivery to him of the golden plates. 1 The so-called " divining rod " has received a good deal of attention from persons engaged in psychical research. Vol. XIII, Part II, of the " Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research " is devoted to a discussion of the subject by Professor W. F. Barrett of the Royal College of ...

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

610

Publisher

General Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1603034250

ISBN 13

9781603034258

Cultural Transformations and Globalization

Theory, Development, and Social Change

By: Alexander M Ervin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cultural Transformations and Globalization

Theory, Development, and Social Change

By: Alexander M Ervin

Change is the most significant factor of contemporary society and humanity s past. This book represents the first substantial attempt since the 1970s to synthesize and critique sociocultural change theories in anthropology and relate them to trends in the social and physical sciences. It emphasizes the most recent contributions especially complexity and emergence theory, social movements, network analysis, and globalization. Ervin presents a rich legacy of theories and case studies accessible to both the established scholar and the beginning student. He considers how theories and insights can inform policy as humanity faces crises of globalization.Key Features of the Text Designed for scholars and students seeking a comprehensive analysis of the relation between anthropological theory and practice. Assesses big questions facing the social sciences: Do cultures and societies change or is it really individuals, families, and social networks? Are there prime movers of change environment, technology, economics, ideas, powerful leaders, or cultural contacts? Are there structures embedded within changes and changes built into structures? Original contribution of the book is the integration of sociological and anthropological theories, including networks, social movements, complexity, world systems, etc. Online appendices include resources for students on applied and practice anthropology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131726178X

ISBN 13

9781317261780

Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George Alexander Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George Alexander Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

506

Publisher

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published Date

ISBN 10

1617034282

ISBN 13

9781617034282

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

708

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080204137X

ISBN 13

9780802041371

Pentecostals and Nonviolence

Reclaiming a Heritage

By: April Alexander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pentecostals and Nonviolence

Reclaiming a Heritage

By: April Alexander

Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century. To do so, the book examines the nature of the early Pentecostal commitment to nonviolence, and investigates the possibilities that might emerge from Pentecostals and Anabaptists entering into conversation and worship with each other. Contributors engage the arguments surrounding the heritage of Pentecostal pacifism in the United States and then move toward exploring nonviolence and peacemaking as crucial for contemporary Christianity as a whole. Ranging from theology, testimony, and pastoral ministry to interchurch relations, activism, and protest, this diverse collection of essays challenge and invite the whole church to the task of peacemaking while exploring the distinctive, and often neglected, contributions from the Pentecostal-charismatic tradition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

419

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1606083627

ISBN 13

9781606083628

Transforming the Lutheran Church in Liberia

A Quest for a Indigenous Identity, Missional Leadership and Self Sustainability

By: Dr. Alexander Yarmie Sumo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transforming the Lutheran Church in Liberia

A Quest for a Indigenous Identity, Missional Leadership and Self Sustainability

By: Dr. Alexander Yarmie Sumo

Transforming the Lutheran Church in Liberia By: Dr. Alexander Yarmie Sumo Drawing upon insights from past and present Liberian leaders, Transforming The Lutheran Church in Liberia offers bold proposals for reconceptualizing, sustaining, and expanding the mission and ministry of the Lutheran Church in Liberia (LCL) while offering an incisive challenge to Western Lutheran churches wishing to accompany the LCL in its mission. Providing the most comprehensive history of the LCL currently available, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars as well as for LCL members who wish to understand their own history. - Joy A. Schroeder, PhD, Professor of Church History, Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Dorrance Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1637643217

ISBN 13

9781637643211

Making the Union Work

Scotland, 1651–1763

By: Alexander Murdoch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Making the Union Work

Scotland, 1651–1763

By: Alexander Murdoch

Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763, explores and analyses existing narratives of Jacobitism and Unionism in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century Scotland. Using in-depth archival research, the book questions the extent to which the currency of kinship patronage politics persisted in Scotland as the competing ideologies of Scottish Jacobitism and British Whiggism grew. It discusses the connection between the manifest corruption of patronage politics and the efflorescence of the Scottish Enlightenment. It also examines the stance taken by David Hume and Adam Smith in defining themselves as philosophers first, Whigs second, but Scots above all else, and analyses whether they achieved international success because of or despite the parliamentary union with England in 1707. Organised chronologically and concluding with an assessment of the newly formed United Kingdom in the decades following the 1707 union, Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763 will be of great interest to researchers and academics of early modern Scotland.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

298

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000051757

ISBN 13

9781000051759

Book's by Alexander Harris

This Will Not Pass

This Will Not Pass

The A to Z of Mormonism

The A to Z of Mormonism

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Geschwülste / Tumors I

Geschwülste / Tumors I

The Rattling of the Chains

The Rattling of the Chains

Secrets of Closing Sales

Secrets of Closing Sales

The Story of the Mormons

The Story of the Mormons

Cultural Transformations and Globalization

Cultural Transformations and Globalization

Mississippi Black History Makers

Mississippi Black History Makers

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

Pentecostals and Nonviolence

Pentecostals and Nonviolence

Transforming the Lutheran Church in Liberia

Transforming the Lutheran Church in Liberia

Making the Union Work

Making the Union Work

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email