Alan Mark: 97 books
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
by Mark Alan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Hellraiser: The Toll tells the story of what happened between Clive Barker’s iconic works The Hellbound Heart and its follow up, The Scarlet Gospels.
Thirty years after Kirsty Cotton escaped from the clutches of the Hell Priest, Pinhead, and lived to fight another day, her life has never...
New Perspectives on the Civil War
Myths and Realities of the National Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...
Alia's Mission
Saving the Books of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.
It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her...
The Surge
2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both...
Comparative Politics
Rationality, Culture, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal...
by Dr. Mark Alan Wade
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The title says it all: "Dirt Simple." This book and accompanying online audio are designed for a rank beginner who knows nothing about the hammered dulcimer, providing them the tools to make music right away. Starting with the fundamentals of how to hold hammers and tune the instrument,...
by Mark Alan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Designed to be the ultimate weapon by a shadow government, a clandestine group of Marine commandos have been implanted with nano-technology. The Nano-bots were injected into the warriors using a laced flu vaccination.Hospital Corpsman, Senior Chief “Doc” Sullivan, discovered these implant...
by Mark Alan
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Are there really Angels? Is there any help out there? What or who is creating the beautiful Northern Lights? Are Crop Circles hoaxes or do they have a higher purpose? Dr. Anthony Young (a physics professor and scientist at NASA) and Lynette Young (a biology professor) are guided through an intense...
by Mark Alan Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
To most in the Realm of Drugolin, otherly spirit lore lingered as mysterious legends best suited for late night hearths. On rare occasions one might hear of strange visitations. Some of huge, radiant beings bearing aid and guidance. Others of dark, evil creatures summoning dread and death. All were...
by Mark Alan Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
A molecular biologist travels to the Amazon rainforest to investigate a genomic link to human spirituality….
Sparked by a mysterious hallucinogenic experience, Brett Roberts catches his first glimpse of a portal to spiritual awareness. Desperate to find a biological explanation, he enters...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...