H H Thomas: 629 books

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and...

An “eerily poignant novel” about a grieving father and a cold-case mystery, from an Edgar Award winner (*PublishersWeekly*, starred review).** George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony. Then his eight-year-old...

Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook has earned acclaim and a growing legion of fans for his brilliantly styled, intensely evocative thrillers. Now, in his most seductive suspense novel yet, he draws us into a world of love, betrayal, and murder from which one man can find no escape. "It's...

Zoologist Thomas H. Huxley was highly influential in developing science education in Great Britain. This collection of essays reflects his thoughts and influence, with essays titled “Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences,” “On Science and Art in Relation to Education,” and “A Liberal Education; and Where to Find It.”

Collected Essays: Volume V by Thomas H. Huxley..

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Ryan and Sarah Dulaney are young educators who have arrived at a professional crossroads. Ryan loves coaching, but he is tired of the classroom. Sarah is a dedicated reading teacher who feels that she needs a more challenging school setting. New jobs, a new home and a beautiful puppy. All seems idyllic until walks with Jack lead to unanticipated events which bring upheaval to their lives.

A “gripping” mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness (Entertainment Weekly). David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David’s sister Diana for...

Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted...

In Thomas H. Cook’s Edgar Award–nominated first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopath Blood seeps into the gutters at the children’s zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed across the neck. Normally it...

In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father’s Delta estate, Great Oaks, to perform an act of noblesse oblige: teaching at the local high school. Conducting a class on historical evil, Jack is shocked to discover that his unassuming student Eddie is the son of the Coed Killer, a notorious...

This is the book we all know and love by Marlo Thomas and her friends-brought to new life with brand new illustrations to captivate and inspire a new generation of readers on a journey of the heart. Whether you are opening Free to Be . . . You and Me for the first time or the one hundredth time you...

Knöpfle, Brägele, Schäufele, Leberle. und als Zwischenmahlzeit 22 raffinierte Mördle aus badischen Küchen! Die Krimiautorin Anne Grießer hat Kolleginnen und Kollegen eingeladen, in die Töpfe und Pfannen ihrer badischen Heimat zu schauen. Gebraten, gebacken und gebrutzelt wurden 22 skurril-heitere,...