William J Moran

William L. Moran

William Lambert Moran (August 11, 1921 December 19, 2000) was an American Assyriologist. He was born in Chicago, United States. In 1939, Moran joined...

Covert Surveillance and Electronic Penetration

Investigative Methods for White Collar Crime

Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

The Amarna Letters

The Amarna Letters

The Most Magic Word: Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature

Biblical and Oriental Essays in Memory of William L. Moran

Nellie Melba: A Contemporary Review

Biblical And Oriental Essays In Memory Of William L. Moran (Biblica Et Orientalia)

The essays in this volume are dedicated to the memory of William L. Moran (1921-2000). They are written by his friends and former colleagues at the two institutions where he spent a good part of his life and career: the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (1958-1966) and the Department of Near Easte...

Master of the Forge: William F. Moran Jr. and His Classic Blades

Now, for the first time, a full-color, hard cover book about the world's premier bladesmith, Bill Moran, and his classic blades. Knives made by Moran are rarely found for sale and are such highly valued collectibles that many of us could never own one. The next best thing is owning this coffee table...

Herman Klein and the Gramophone (1923 the Gramophone and the Singer)

(Amadeus). From Klein's comments on early recordings that remain available today, the reader can get a glimpse of what legendary singers such as Patti and Lind sounded like more than a century ago. The essays of Herman Klein that appeared in The Gramophone from 1924 until 1934 are indispensable sour...

The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove

The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge...

Health Care Advocacy: A Guide for Busy Clinicians

Interest in policy influences on health care is high, and will remain high as long as health care costs continue to rise and health care reform remains a hot topic in the news. There are inevitable and frequent points of interface between health care public policy and the health professions; in thei...

The Amarna Letters

An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C....

The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings: Matrix Series: 1 Through 4999; The Victor Talking Machine Company, 24 April, 1903 to 7 January, 1908

Record collectors, archivists, and music historians will welcome the second volume of The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor RecordingS≪/i>, bringing the history and comprehensive catalog of the Victor Talking Machine Company through the year 1907, when the Matrix Numbering system, inaugurated in...

One Season: A Baseball Tale

Only in the world of major league baseball could an ordinary man like John Meek find himself with the extraordinary opportunity to fulfill his childhood dreams. At 45 years old, a serious car accident left him with a freakishly deformed right arm . . . and an unexpected ability to throw pitches that...