John Ronald: 76 books

Conquest and Secrets is the conclusion to John Ronald’s 'Secrets' trilogy. Badiah leaves his self-imposed exile and lays aside old demons to put an end to the sinister Prime Minster Varcus’ nefarious plans for the galaxy. Clutching onto power as well as his own sanity amidst the crumbling Confederacy,...

Rebellion and Secrets is John Ronald’s sequel to his debut novel Vengeance and Secrets. Promoted to Lieutenant Badiah finds himself uncomfortable in his new role as an official hero of the Confederacy. As his fame begins to fade his best friend Caleb approaches him with a madcap scheme to rescue...

Retaining the conceptual framework of the first edition through emphasis on the dual themes of continuity and change, the second edition of Libya is revised and updated to include discussion of key developments since 2010, including: The February 17 Revolution and the death of Muammar al-Qaddafi. The...

Newly promoted to Sergeant, Badiah is the sole survivor after his squad was ambushed by rebels. After being rescued, he joins another group of special operators led by the dour Lieutenant Samuels and impetuous Sergeant Caleb. Aboard an aging cruiser commanded by a crusty old captain they set off across...

After her guardian emigrates seventeen-year-old orphan Alison moves in with her Uncle Thomas and Aunt Gertrude. As Alison adjusts to new surroundings and school, a sinister presence worms its way through the rooms of the old estate her new guardians live in. Is it real? What does it want with her? What do her new guardians know? Or is her new friend from school the only one who can help?

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial...

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya...

A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse. Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...

This issue features fiction by Margaret Ronald ("Sunlight Society"), Michael John Grist ("The Bells of Subsidence") and Gary Kloster ("From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit"), interviews with Nathan Long and John R. Fultz and an article on ruins by E. C. Ambrose.

In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...

It’s “great fun” when a baker’s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The Guardian).   Originally published in 1931, The Floating Admiral is a classic literary collaboration by members of the Detection...

"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea.... All hoped for financial success and perhaps a little adventure; as it turned out, their tiny settlement eventually would evolve from...

"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...