Clifton: 279 books

Is all this talk of blood, sacrifices, death, and mutilation really necessary? Perhaps all these primitive, barbaric ways of man trying to deal with his predicament is just thatprimitive and barbaric. Furthermore, is man in a real dilemma or is it a fabricated tale of deluded individuals we deem as...

From the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China, this new volume by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton charts a course through the spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence that define our new nomadic age. The poet has moved beyond middle age to revisit,...

"Survival is not limited to the fittest but survival is limited to those that know the value of defeat and are not willing to take the charge. Instead they maneuver and learn and at the right moment counter any motion that is meant to cancel their progress with an attack of their own. It’s almost...

An ABC Book where a bother and sister use their toys and pets to create an A to Z Zoo in their playroom.

What happens when an entire life is buried in secrets? In this sequel to Secrets of a Ghost’s Diary, Only time will tell… Twelve-year-old Carson never imagined he would be handpicked by a ghost to solve a mystery, but that’s exactly how his summer began. With help from his cousin, Emma, and...

When small town Motel owner Joe Hooper meets the suspicious couple Karl and Paula Sheldon one evening little does he know how crazy his world is going to become. Stuck running a dead end business Hooper has been waiting for a lucky break to come his way but will a surefire robbery plan really work...

A body washes up on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in flood. Caught in the act of taking his own life, and surrounded by the bloodstained clothes of his wife, Oleg Kransky is a shoe-in for number one suspect. But he's not talking. To anyone. Oleg's former psychologist, Decca Brand,...

Since its beginning as a ferry crossing in 1757, the city of Lynchburg has covered the hills that rise above the James River. A community that has managed to successfully blend its past with the best that the present has to offer, Lynchburg is truly the �Heart of Virginia.� Holding doctorates in...

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues. These qualities, Clifton Pye shows, afford a particular...

I’m a thief. But that’s life. And in the sanctuary of Tander, cut from the hardpan of the Sparelands, it’s all I’ve ever known. But I’m a dreamer, I’ve got plans for more. First I have to leave the dusty shackles of Tander behind. And to do that, I need fare for the only safe exit...

This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches--which assume that states want to maximize security--by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance. States,...

Allen King is an unassuming Black teenager living in a blue-collar family in Miami, Florida. After finding a magical crystal necklace he discovers that he's actually an Atlantean prince. Suddenly things change for the gawky teenager. He gains the powers of telepathy and teleportation and finds that...

Dès la fin du XIXe siècle, des anarchistes comme les géographes Pierre Kropotkine ou Élisée Reclus se sont intéressés aux peuples autochtones, qu’on a aussi qualifiés de « sociétés sans État ». Au début des années 2000, un peu partout sur le continent américain, des Autochtones ont...

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body—something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear...