Gary Dennis: 13 books
by Gary Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Michael Murphy is on a mission in his convertible car. At the beginning of his journey he narrowly misses running over a young girl caught in a rain storm. In an attempt to help her he turns to the local village, but finds that they are the source of her plight.Set on the Dingle Peninsula in Southern...
The Courage to Change
Personal Conversations about Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1984
The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics.
As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume...
In Pursuit of Spenser
Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
When Robert B. Parker passed in early 2010, the world lost two great men: Parker himself, iconic American crime writer whose books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and his best-known creation, Spenser. Parker's Spenser series not only influenced the work of countless of today's writers,...
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essaysexamining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities.
Following the golden age of British Gothic in the...
by John P. Bartkowski, Gary C. Bryner, John J. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
In their introduction, the editors of New Ways of Doing Business assert that in retrospect, it will be apparent that today's government, that of the early years of the 21st century, "was undergoing its most significant transformation since the decade of the 1930's when direct government-delivered...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Jeannie Alderdice, Jon Alston
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In this collection of twenty-two short stories by twenty emerging writers, Zimbell House has brought together a unique experience all relating to a lost door.
From whimsical to tragic, from science-fiction to tales of fairies, these writers have stretched their imaginations to deliver stories set to intrigue you.
A Slant of Light
Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting...
What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal...
Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System
Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment. Yet even when evidence shows that people with these conditions often pose little threat to society, or lack a core understanding as to why...
Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema
Traces of a Lost Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period...
Commonplace Commitments
Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet...
The Trouble with Textbooks
Distorting History and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
School textbooks in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim worlds are filled with anti-Western and anti-Israel propaganda. Most readers will be shocked to discover that history and geography textbooks widely used in America's elementary and secondary classrooms contain some...
Ecosystem Management
Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Today's natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient. Science is merely one componin a multifaceted world of decision...