Douglass: 357 books
All in Jest
Renowned Neurosurgeon in the Fight of Her Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“It is really quite simple,” the renowned French Canadian expert on pituitary surgery began his answer. Neurosurgeon defendant Sybil Norcroft, M.D., F.A.C.S., PhD steeled herself to hear the description that could possibly spell the end of her rising career. Even a glance at the imperturbable...
Running With The Big Dogs
Chief of the Puzzle-Palace to Distraught Mother
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Sybil Norcroft has spent nearly a lifetime to establish herself as a person of significance in a patriarchal world. Her successes have come at great cost and are, in sum, a mixed blessing. The cost to her family is heightened when, as Surgeon General, she must help her government and her fellow citizens...
The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast
A Novel of the Iran Nuclear Weapons Interdiction Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The carefully crafted projects and deep secrets of the Islamic Republic of Iran and their opponents in the Iran Nuclear Weapons Interdiction Project each bring their best and their worst to fruition in this the final book in the Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast Trilogy. Both sides are playing...
The Young Coyote
Garven Wilsonhulme's Way to Success—No Quarter Asked and None Given
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The Young Coyote tells the hard-hitting story of a boy from Cipher, Arizona who is expected to be a zero just like his town. He has no intention of fitting into that conventional wisdom and fights with his fists and his mind to get up and out of his straitened circumstances. He makes it to Stanford...
Uncharted Country, Uncertain Future
News Channel Superstar to International Virus Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Sybil Norcroft, M.D., Ph.D, F.A.C.S. leaves California under a cloud. She has been found innocent of a murder charge there but cannot be certain that she will succeed in her new profession as a Wolf News Medical Consultant. The health news story of the century falls into her lap, and the novice commentator...
by Leigh Douglass Brackett
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail,...
How to Steal the Lawman's Heart
A Single Dad Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Forgiveness starts with a stolen kiss
Chief of police Trent Knight had it all until an accident took his wife and he was left alone to raise two beautiful girls. Now the person he always blamed for his loss is back in town, and all bets are off. But soon his anger toward Carmen Shields gives...
by Nick Montfort, John Bell, Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.
This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing...
Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...
by Frederick Douglass Alcorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book is a culturally situated study of the experiences and perspective garnered from of a group of post-secondary Black African American, bi-multi-racial male students aged 19-37. The undergirding interest was to see if there was an awareness of the group's manly inclinations, tendencies and...
The Iron Cage Revisited
Max Weber in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars...
Southern Food and Civil Rights
Feeding the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Food has been and continues to be an essential part of any movement for progressive change. From home cooks and professional chefs to local eateries and bakeries, food has helped activists continue marching for change for generations. Paschal�s restaurant in Atlanta provided safety and comfort food...
Farewell to a Queen
The Mysterious Sinking of the Pride of BC Ferries
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Shortly after midnight on March 22, 2006, passengers aboard the Canadian ferry Queen of the Northwere flung from their beds as the vessel crashed into a rocky island. Evacuated into life rafts, many were rescued by heroic Gitga'at First Nations people in fishing boats. Two passengers were never...
Conceptual Aphasia in Black
Displacing Racial Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of conceiving of racism and its correlations...