J Atkins: 9 books

Can your very DNA upend assumptions about the person you are? Author William J. Atkins probes this question and many others in his groundbreaking debut novel, The Blood of Zealots. Splicing the genres of science-faction, global espionage, and good old-fashioned romance, this ingenious, high-velocity...

As the 2012 Presidential Election approaches social and cultural issues take center stage and these seven politicians intend to keep them in the spotlight. Biggerhead is a first rate "who done it" that is folded into a political satire. Plausible situations and credible conflict launch this parody...

An original combination of theoretical innovation and a detailed empirical analysis of the ideas, language and policy of New Labour. Politicians often appeal to moral principles and arguments in their efforts to win support for new policy programmes. Yet the question of how politicians use moral language has until now been neglected by scholars.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Floating Home. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by J. B. Atkins, which...

This book represents years and years of individual and collaborative efforts by its authors to both develop techniques that bring life to dining as well as to share the authors' and their respective family members' love of food. It reflects a great deal of experimentation and refinement. Most importantly,...

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,...

This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial...

The field of expressive arts is closely tied to the work of therapeutic change. As well as being beneficial for the individual or small group, expressive arts therapy has the potential for a much wider impact, to inspire social action and bring about social change. The book's contributors explore...

‘I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea.’ One winter I made up my mind that it was necessary to live in some sort of vessel afloat instead of in a house on the land. This decision was the result, at last pressed on me by circumstances, of vague dreams...