David K: 437 books
Adrift
My Childhood in Colonial Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
In 1935, six-year-old Tzi Ki was taken away from his mother in Canton, by his grandmother, to live at Blair Road in Singapore.
This is the first part of David T. K. Wong’s multi-volume family memoir. It traces of his tumultuous growing-up years from his birth in Hong Kong, his early years...
Race and the Early Republic
Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...
by John Joseph Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Brin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
In our first story this month, Liz Coleman’s “Join,” a man who has always felt alienated returns home to visit his family on Earth, and brings with him part of his new family—a newborn, parasitic alien.
Most of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever...
At The Helm: Volume 3: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this third collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature
A Tribute to John Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.
When Languages Die
The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge...
The Last Speakers
The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as...
Machado de Assis
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell’s...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
by John K David
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
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My name is JK and I have been involved in the CCTV business since July 2003. I began working for a small company in Mansfield, OH and I have installed...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Aaron Michael Ritchey, Adrienne Dellwo, Che Gilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A multi-author collection of eighteen original superhero tales ranging from the dark to the hysterical to the downright bizarre, including 2016 Aurora Award nominee "Super Frenemies" by Stephen Kotowych.
“And Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper” by Leonard Apa: A Golden Age tale of an actor...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
by Thomas Deja, David Michelinie, Bonnie J. Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
They NEVER wrote them like this! Swingin’ Superhero 1968 Special brings together some of the most outlandish send-ups in all of comicdom! The far-out folks Jim Beard (St. Janus Spirit Breaker) and Lee Houston Jr. has assembled a kooky collection of heroes straight from the flip side. It’s going...