John Adams

John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and "he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker). Now, in Hallelujah Junction, he incisively relates his life story, from his childhood to his early studies in classical composition amid the musical and social

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Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition! Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a profound work of political and governmental theory. What prompted Adams to write such a remarkable treatise was a letter, a letter exchanged between a French statesman and a Welsh philosopher, between Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot...

It is the summer of 1939 in England when soldiers start digging trenches in a local park. Suddenly, seven-year-old John Adams is forced to face a new reality. He and his school are abruptly evacuated to an unknown destination. Two days later, war is declared. As the sky lights up with searchlights and German bombing raids increase, Adams natural instincts to dig for the real story kick in beginning what would eventually become a remarkable journey...

This book gives you a perspective on The Bible like, you've never had before. It's a collection of nine heartfelt letters written by the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, to his teenage son. "Their purpose is the inculcation of love and reverence for the Holy Scriptures, and a delight in their perusal and study." These letters are disarmingly honest and persuasive. If you find yourself identifying with the son, young and passionate...

In this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of "collecting all authority into one center." Delving into the Italian republics of the middle age, Adams uses pure history, extensive extracts from the works of Italian historians, to demonstrate to the American people, and the world, that the same tumult,...

Here's a small part of what you'll discover inside “Masculine Emotional Intelligence”, Use 'The Emotional X-Ray Scan' to recognize emotions from other people, solely based on body language and facial expressions. Mastering this will get you a lot of respect and a high social status and can be used both at work as at home. (Warning this can give you an unfair advantage) (page 80) Why society gives men in general an unfair disadvantage regarding...

Abby Adams is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. The letters serve as eyewitness accounts of the American Revolutionary War home front.

´As time goes on and technology gets more and more advanced, EQ (emotional intelligence) will become far more important than IQ – excited to be living at the dawn of this era and to watch it unfold!´ - Quote from Gary Vaynerchuck, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia, 5'time NYT Bestselling author and Internet Celebrity. Keep reading to discover what a higher EQ can mean for you The way you understand your own and other people´s emotions…...

Do you have a negative self-image? Is hard for you to say: ´No´? Do you compare yourself with others all the time? Then keep reading... Do you compare yourself a lot with others who are in a better position than you? Only to talk yourself down? Maybe you say to yourself that the others are better and smarter. Or that you don´t deserve what they have reached for whatever reason. Do you have this inner-critic talking to you all the time? It´s needless...

When two daughters of the South, Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, set out to find causes for the continuing racial divisions in the United States, they discovered that the politics of slavery didn't end after the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the history of anti-black racism in the United States, "The Long Shadow" traces the blunt imposition of white privilege and its ultimate manifestation-slavery. Causey and Holst...