James Patrick: 140 books
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
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I See Reality
Twelve Short Stories About Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
An anthology of twelve original short stories by top authors exploring real issues for real teens.
Through prose and comics alike, these heart-pounding short stories for young adults ask hard questions about a range of topics from sexuality and addiction to violence and immigration. Here is...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
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...
by Patricia Bray, S.C. Butler, Esther Friesner
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side?
The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you—and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take...
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Edited by H. L. Gold; ‘Galaxy Science Fiction’ hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first ‘Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack’ we bring...
by Kristopher Mallory, R.k. Kombrinck, Christine Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Darkness descends Again. Daylight Dims Volume Two features thirteen stories that cross the genres of surreal, dark fantasy, and heart pounding dread. This annual horror anthology is guaranteed to twist your perception of horror. From the common, comfortable tropes, to the more taboo, these handpicked...
Connections 500
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.
Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and...
by Mark Thompson, Jon Thoday, Amanda D. Lotz
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.
Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers,...
The International Relations of Middle-earth
Learning from The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction to International Relations using J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastically popular trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Because Tolkien's major themes---such as good...
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
Small Wild Cats
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Did you know that most wild cat species are small and that lions, tigers, and other large cats are the exception? That adult bobcats, clouded leopards, and other small wild cats are completely asocial? And that they fight only as a last resort? This entertaining and informative book reveals these...
Leading Schools to Success
Constructing and Sustaining High-Performing Learning Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
What's missing in education reform in the United States? The answer is leadership; specifically, the ability of school and district leaders to construct and continually nurture a culture of sustained high performance. A true leader needs to have not only a vision of the desired culture, but the skills...
by Writing Bloc CO-OP, Cari Dubiel, Christopher Henckel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
ESCAPE! Is something that we all crave. Our modern, hectic, light-speed lives are loaded with stress, worry, and regret. These themes are old friends of the independent writers of the Writing Bloc Cooperative. In this first annual anthology of shorts presented by Writing Bloc Publishing, we called...
The Scientific & the Divine
Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
There have been many—too many—attempts over the centuries to bring science and religion into harmony. James A. Arieti and Patrick A. Wilson survey and assess these various efforts, from Plato to Aquinas to present-day philosophers and theologians. The Scientific & The Divine examines the perennial...