Dean: 3204 books

In The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work...

Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by...

We are created to live in an altar’d state—surrendered, yielded, free. The noun altar is usually understood to be a place of worshipful offering. Something of value is offered up and released on the altar. When we turn the noun altar into a verb—altar our fear, our failure, our possessiveness,...

Adversity attacks our minds and our bodies. Trouble sends people to their knees in prayer. We approach God expecting quick and instant relief from our pain. When that relief doesn’t come immediately, or our circumstances do not change the way we think they should change, we may be quick to give...

As an adult child of divorced parents, I have looked for characteristics of a healthy family. Why does trauma paralyze some and motivate others? Using stories of addicts and world leaders, I have found the catalysts and principles that changed the trajectories and embedded strength into people predisposed...

Drawing on his own experience as an American diplomat in Venice, William Dean Howells' gripping novel Ragged Lady pits a Venetian vice-consul against a network of influential foes when he takes up the cause of a young woman who has been wrongfully denied her inheritance.

The Zombie Apocalypse is coming – will you be a survivor? Can you tell an AK-47 from an AR-15, and know which one is the better choice when hunting zombies? This book explains the critical information you need to know in order to properly select and employ the weapons you will need to survive the...

************** PRE-ORDER NOW: THE EIGHTEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN Peace has finally been declared in the Far East, but for those living at Beach View Boarding House, the news brings mixed emotions. Peggy Reilly is devastated that her husband...

Today, popular imagination peoples the Middle Ages with damsels in distress and knights riding to their rescue. Of such knights, King Arthur and his companions are the most celebrated. It is certainly true that this is the time when the Arthurian story took shape and Arthurian literature flourished,...

Over seventy-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this thirtieth monthly volume the full novel The Idanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain Novel, the WMG Writer’s Guide Writing a Novel in Seven Days, plus four short stories, and a serialized...

Over fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this thirty-second monthly volume the full novel They’re Back: A Poker Boy Short Novel, plus seven short stories and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest. Short Stories A...

Over fifty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this thirty-third monthly volume the full novel The Taft Ranch: A Thunder Mountain Novel, plus four short stories and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest. Short Stories The...

On a chilly autumn night in 1942, a German spy was rowed ashore from a U-boat off the Gaspé coast to begin a deadly espionage mission against the Allies. Thanks to an alert hotel-keeper's son, Abwehr agent `Bobbi' was captured and forced by the RCMP to become Canada's first double-agent. For...

Imagine you are a spy. A spy on a mission from the Green Moon to the dastardly, evil warmongers of the Blue Moon. What would be the worst possible thing that could happen on this mission? Well, whatever you are imagining, the diplomatic crisis accidentally instigated by Brandenburg on his mission...