James Putnam's Books

Ticonderoga

By: George Payne Rainsford James

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ticonderoga

By: George Payne Rainsford James

Reproduction of the original: Ticonderoga by George Payne Rainsford James

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3734011965

ISBN 13

9783734011962

They Married Adventure

The Wandering Lives of Martin & Osa Johnson

By: Pascal James Imperato

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

They Married Adventure

The Wandering Lives of Martin & Osa Johnson

By: Pascal James Imperato

Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Osa Johnson's ghostwritten autobiography, I Married Adventure, became a national bestseller. The 1939 film version was billed as "the story of World Exploration's First Lady, whose indomitable daring would be stayed by neither snarling lion nor crouching leopard, tropic tempest nor savage tribesman " Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of self-reliance. Probing beneath the glamor of the Johnsons' public image, Pascal and Eleanor Imperato explore the more human side of the couple's lives--and ways the Johnsons shaped, for better and for worse, America's vision of Africa. Drawing on many years of research, access to a wealth of letters and archives, interviews with many who worked closely with the Johnsons, and their own deep knowledge of Africa, the authors present a fascinating and intimate portrait of this intrepid couple.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

382

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813526957

ISBN 13

9780813526959

Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

By: Ira Jacknis,James Snead,Donald McVicker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

By: Ira Jacknis,James Snead,Donald McVicker

Collection of scholarly essays and primary documents exploring the significance of the 1893 World's Fair and the history of American anthropology"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

618

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803268386

ISBN 13

9780803268388

The Red Rover

A Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper,Thomas Philbrick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Red Rover

A Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper,Thomas Philbrick

Turning to his own extensive maritime experience, Coopers novel, written in Paris in 1827, reflects his immersion in the romantic movement that was sweeping the Continent. European readers enjoyed his poetic and imaginative portrayal of the sea, while American readers were interested in how he depicted the early stirrings of nationalism in the New World decades prior to the Revolution. Coopers striking association of the sublime power of nature with the rebellious spirit of his pirate-hero established and defined the sea novel as a literary genre. By far the most influential of his maritime tales, The Red Rover was read and admired by Goethe and Berlioz, Melville and Conrad. This edition, the first to be based on Coopers original manuscript, offers the modern reader a major document of romanticism and a compelling narrative of adventure at sea.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

738

Publisher

SUNY Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0791401898

ISBN 13

9780791401897

Ruins and Rivals

The Making of Southwest Archaeology

By: James E. Snead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ruins and Rivals

The Making of Southwest Archaeology

By: James E. Snead

Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Ruins are as central to the image of the American Southwest as are its mountains and deserts, and antiquity is a key element of modern southwestern heritage. Yet prior to the mid-nineteenth century this rich legacy was largely unknown to the outside world. While military expeditions first brought word of enigmatic relics to the eastern United States, the new intellectual frontier was seized by archaeologists, who used the results of their southwestern explorations to build a foundation for the scientific study of the American past. In Ruins and Rivals, James Snead helps us understand the historical development of archaeology in the Southwest from the 1890s to the 1920s and its relationship with the popular conception of the region. He examines two major research traditions: expeditions dispatched from the major eastern museums and those supported by archaeological societies based in the Southwest itself. By comparing the projects of New York's American Museum of Natural History with those of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the Santa Fe-based School of American Archaeology, he illustrates the way that competition for status and prestige shaped the way that archaeological remains were explored and interpreted. The decades-long competition between institutions and their advocates ultimately created an agenda for Southwest archaeology that has survived into modern times. Snead takes us back to the days when the field was populated by relic hunters and eastern "museum men" who formed uneasy alliances among themselves and with western boosters who used archaeology to advance their own causes. Richard Wetherill, Frederic Ward Putnam, Charles Lummis, and other colorful characters all promoted their own archaeological endeavors before an audience that included wealthy patrons, museum administrators, and other cultural figures. The resulting competition between scholarly and public interests shifted among museum halls, legislative chambers, and the drawing rooms of Victorian America but always returned to the enigmatic ruins of Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde. Ruins and Rivals contains a wealth of anecdotal material that conveys the flavor of digs and discoveries, scholars and scoundrels, tracing the origins of everything from national monuments to "Santa Fe Style." It rekindles the excitement of discovery, illustrating the role that archaeology played in creating the southwestern "past" and how that image of antiquity continues to exert its influence today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

254

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

081654784X

ISBN 13

9780816547845

Essays in Psychical Research

By: William James

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Essays in Psychical Research

By: William James

The more than 50 articles, essays, and reviews collected here for the first time were published by James over a span of some 25 years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

728

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674267087

ISBN 13

9780674267084

Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

By: James F. Short, Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

By: James F. Short, Jr.

Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. }Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. }

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429966660

ISBN 13

9780429966668

With Fire and Sword

The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution

By: James L. Nelson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

With Fire and Sword

The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution

By: James L. Nelson

A masterful history of the first set-piece battle of the Revolutionary War, James L. Nelson's WithFire and Sword offers critical new insights into one of the most important actions of our country's founding. On June 17, 1775, the entire dynamic of the newborn American Revolution was changed. If the Battle of Lexington and Concord was, in the immortal words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the "shot heard round the world," Bunker Hill was the volley that rocked Britain's Parliament and the ministry of King George III to its core. The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first hostile engagement of the Revolution between two organized armies, and the first time that a genuine American army had ever taken the field. It gave the British their first inkling that the Colonial rabble-in-arms they had envisioned might actually prove to be a formidable fighting force. In this book, award-winning author James L. Nelson tells the exciting and dramatic story of the fight that changed the face of the American Revolution. He looks at the events leading up to that fateful day, the personalities on both the British and American sides who made momentous decisions, and the bloody outcome of those crucial choices, which would affect the British strategy on the battlefield throughout the coming six more years of active warfare.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

381

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

1429968079

ISBN 13

9781429968072

The Politics of National Capitalism

Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946-1976

By: James P. Brennan,Marcelo Rougier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Politics of National Capitalism

Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946-1976

By: James P. Brennan,Marcelo Rougier

In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right&—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists&—about the need to break away from the colonial legacies of the past and to escape from the constraints of the international capitalist system. Even though they disagreed about the desired end state, Argentines of all political stripes could agree on the need for economic independence and national sovereignty, which would be brought about through the efforts of a national bourgeoisie. James Brennan and Marcelo Rougier aim to provide a political history of this national bourgeoisie in this book. Deploying an eclectic methodology combining aspects of the &“new institutionalism,&” the &“new economic history,&” Marxist political economy, and deep research in numerous, rarely consulted archives into what they dub the &“new business history,&” the authors offer the first thorough, empirically based history of the national bourgeoisie&’s peak association, the Confederaci&ón General Econ&ómica (CGE), and of the Argentine bourgeoisie&’s relationship with the state. They also investigate the relationship of the bourgeoisie to Per&ón and the Peronist movement by studying the history of one industrial sector, the metalworking industry, and two regional economies&—one primarily industrial, C&órdoba, and another mostly agrarian, Chaco&—with some attention to a third, Tucum&án, a cane-cultivating and sugar-refining region sharing some features of both. While spanning three decades, the book concentrates most on the years of Peronist government, 1946&–55 and 1973&–76.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

418

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271035722

ISBN 13

9780271035727

Toxic Legacy

Synthetic Toxins in the Food, Water and Air of American Cities

By: Patrick Sullivan,James J.J. Clark,Franklin J. Agardy,Paul E. Rosenfeld

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Toxic Legacy

Synthetic Toxins in the Food, Water and Air of American Cities

By: Patrick Sullivan,James J.J. Clark,Franklin J. Agardy,Paul E. Rosenfeld

Any professional examination of existing or potential new toxins in a population must account for those already present from past problems and natural conditions.Toxic Legacy provides extensive information on the occurrence of chemical hazards and their potential dangers in combinations in the food, water and air in cities around the United States. The book illustrates consumer preferences for specific food and water products, as well as particular diets and discusses the toxicity and risks associated with our exposure to synthetic chemicals. The authors offer unique guidance to environmental engineers, scientists, process engineers, and planners and specify what steps can be taken to limit exposure to complex chemical mixtures. - Includes strategies for minimizing our exposure to chemical mixtures - Provides detailed analysis of hazards associated with exposure to chemical mixtures from multiple sources - Presents chemical data on the food, water and air for 36 metropolitan areas in the United States

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

569

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0080466478

ISBN 13

9780080466477

Problems from Kant

By: James Van Cleve

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Problems from Kant

By: James Van Cleve

This rigorous examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provides a comprehensive analysis of the major metaphysical and epistemological questions of Kant's most famous work. Author James Van Cleve presents clear and detailed discussions of Kant's positions and arguments on these themes, as well as critical assessments of Kant's reasoning and conclusions. Expansive in its scope, Van Cleves study covers the overall structure of Kant's idealism, the existence and nature of synthetic a priori knowledge, the epistemology of geometry, and the ontological status of space, time, and matter. Other topics explored are the role of synthesis and the categories in making experience and objects of experience possible, the concepts of substance and causation, issues surrounding Kant's notion of the thing in itself, the nature of the thinking self, and the arguments of rational theology. A concluding chapter discusses the affinities between Kant's idealism and contemporary antirealism, in particular the work of Putnam and Dummett. Unlike some interpreters, Van Cleve takes Kant's professed idealism seriously, finding it at work in his solutions to many problems. He offers a critique in Kant's own sense--a critical examination leading to both negative and positive verdicts. While finding little to endorse in some parts of Kant's system that have won contemporary favor (for example, the deduction of the categories) Van Cleve defends other aspects of Kant's thought that are commonly impugned (for instance, the existence of synthetic a priori truths and things in themselves). This vital study makes a significant contribution to the literature, while at the same time making Kant's work accessible to serious students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195347013

ISBN 13

9780195347012

Michener

A Writer's Journey

By: Stephen James May

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Michener

A Writer's Journey

By: Stephen James May

The public and private lives of writer James A. Michener come together in an incisive portrait that examines Michener's body of writing in its biographical and cultural contexts and establishes his place in twentieth-century letters.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

384

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806136995

ISBN 13

9780806136998

The Skinner Family History

Second Edition

By: Ira James Skinner Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Skinner Family History

Second Edition

By: Ira James Skinner Jr.

The surname Skinner is an English trade and business name of approximately the twelfth century when trade names like Brewer, Baker, Chandler, and Smith came into existence as family names. Skinner is the name adopted as a dealer in skins, furs, and hides. The Skinner Company of London received a charter of incorporation during the reign of Edward III and has a coat of arms, which is discussed later from that period. The Skinner families are found all over England. The Skinner families are in Cowley and Devonshire in London and in Essex, Sussex, Dewlish, the Isle of Wight, and other counties as well. This book gives the history of the Skinner family from 1200 to the present time and connects six immigrants that is listed in the introduction of the book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1305

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1796040487

ISBN 13

9781796040487

Smoke and Mirrors

How Science Reflects Reality

By: James Robert Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Smoke and Mirrors

How Science Reflects Reality

By: James Robert Brown

Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity's best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by numerous critics. James Robert Brown in Smoke and Mirrors fights back against figures such as Richard Rorty, Bruno Latour, Michael Ruse and Hilary Putnam who have attacked realist accounts of science. But this volume is not wholly devoted to combating Rorty and others who blow smoke in our eyes; the second half is concerned with arguing that there are some amazing ways in which science mirrors the world. The role of abstraction, abstract objects and a priori ways of getting at reality are all explored in showing how science reflects reality. Smoke and Mirrors is a defence of science and knowledge in general as well as a defence of a particular way of understanding science. It is of interest to all those who wish or need to know how science works.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134873565

ISBN 13

9781134873562

Twelve Dreams

By: James Lapine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Twelve Dreams

By: James Lapine

THE STORY: Inspired by an actual case history denoted by Carl Jung, the play traces the story of a little New England girl, Emma, who makes a booklet of her dreams which she gives to her psychiatrist father, Charles Hatrick, for Christmas. Still nu

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822215063

ISBN 13

9780822215066

Logic of the Heart, The

Augustine, Pascal, and the Rationality of Faith

By: James R. Peters

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Logic of the Heart, The

Augustine, Pascal, and the Rationality of Faith

By: James R. Peters

Drawing from the thought of Augustine, Pascal, and Hume, Peters provides a clear philosophical defense of the rationality of Christian faith in a postmodern world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Baker Academic

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801035996

ISBN 13

9780801035999

The State of Creativity

The Future of 3D Printing, 4D Printing and Augmented Reality

By: James Griffin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The State of Creativity

The Future of 3D Printing, 4D Printing and Augmented Reality

By: James Griffin

Creativity has been of central importance to the development of the modern State, and yet creativity is something that has become increasingly side-lined. This has been particularly apparent with the development of new machinic technologies, such as 3D printing. This monograph argues that inner creativity, combined with the zone of discourse, has been endangered by the rise of administrative regulation. Griffin investigates how the failure to incorporate creativity into that administrative regulation is adversely impacting the regulation of technologies such as 3D printing. The State of Creativity, proposes reforms to ensure that the regulation does take creativity into account.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

299

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1786438275

ISBN 13

9781786438270

Billy Mitchell

By: James J. Cooke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Billy Mitchell

By: James J. Cooke

But his brilliance was often overshadowed by his personal failings.".

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

326

Publisher

Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1588260828

ISBN 13

9781588260826

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity

By: James Harmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity

By: James Harmer

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how linguistic meaning is created in their work. The book achieves this consideration by placing its Renaissance authors in the context of the dominant conceptualisation of the thought-language relationship in the Western tradition: namely, that of 'introspection'. In taking this route, author James Harmer undertakes to provide a comprehensive overview of the notion of 'introspection' from classical times to the Renaissance, and demonstrates how complex and even strange this notion is often seen to be by thinkers and writers. Harmer also shows how poetry and literary discourse in general stands at the centre of the conceptual consideration of what linguistic thinking is. He then argues, through a range of close readings of Renaissance texts, that writers of the Shakespearean period increase the fragility of the notion of 'introspection' in such a way as to make the prospect of any systematic theory of meaning seem extremely remote. Embracing and exploring the possibility that thinking about meaning can only occur in the context of extreme cognitive and psychological limitation, these texts emerge as proponents of a human mind which is remarkably free in its linguistic nature; an irresistible mode of life unto itself. The final argumentative stratum of the book explores the implications of this approach for understanding the relationship between literary criticism, philosophy, and other kinds of critical activity. Texts discussed at length include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317066499

ISBN 13

9781317066491

Arrested Adulthood

The Changing Nature of Maturity and Identity

By: James E. Cote

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Arrested Adulthood

The Changing Nature of Maturity and Identity

By: James E. Cote

An examination into the social influences that have prolonged youth in today's adults Why are today's adults more like adolescents, in their dress and personal tastes, than ever before? Why do so many adults seem to drift and avoid responsibilities such as work and family? As the traditional family breaks down and marriage and child rearing are delayed, what makes a person an adult?Many people in the industrial West are simply not "growing up" in the traditional sense. Instead, they pursue personal, individual fulfillment and emerge from a vague and prolonged youth into a vague and insecure adulthood. The transition to adulthood is becoming more hazardous, and the destination is becoming more difficult to reach, if it is reached at all. Arrested Adulthood examines the variety of young people's responses to this new situation. James E. Côté shows us adults who allow the profit-driven industries of mass culture to provide the structure that is missing, as their lives become more individualistic and atomized. He also shows adults who resist anomie and build their world around their sense of personal connectedness to others. Finally, Côté provides a vision of a truly progressive society in which all members can develop their potentials apart from the influence of the market. In so doing, he gives us a clearer vision of what it means to be an adult and makes sense of the longest, but least understood period of the life course.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

NYU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

081473779X

ISBN 13

9780814737798

Book's by James Putnam

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email