Kerry: 1111 books
Shoplifting
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil War that the prevalence of shoplifting and societal awareness of it, became significant. In the 1860s the typical shoplifter was from the lower classes; by 1900 it was an upper-class woman who shoplifted...
Policewomen
A History, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Women in policing have seen three phases of acceptance. Beginning in about 1880, they were admitted as police matrons with extremely limited duties. Next they were accepted as policewomen around 1910–1916, when that title was officially bestowed on them. Finally came assignment of females as general...
Beware the Masher
Sexual Harassment in American Public Places, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This book examines the history of sexual harassment in America’s public places, such as on the streets and on public transit vehicles, in the period 1880 to 1930. Such behavior was referred to then as mashing with the harasser most commonly being called a masher. It began around 1880 as a response...
Chewing Gum in America, 1850-1920
The Rise of an Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Americans began chewing gum long before 1850, scraping resin from spruce trees, removing any bits of bark or insects and chewing the finished product. Commercially-made gum was of limited availability and came in three types—tree resin, pretroleum-based paraffin and chicle-based—the latter, a...
Extras of Early Hollywood
A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Pity the “extras.” Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945—right through the dream factory’s golden era. The struggles of extras to unionize were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought for a voice within that union. There were...
Photographing Michigan's "Upper Peninsula"
A Guide to Great Photo Locations in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Photographing Michigan's Upper Peninsula is an illustrated guide to the spectacular photgraphic imagery available in the Upper Peninsula. The guide contains specific directions to the sites, including mileage and GPS coordinates. This is a book aimed at photographers, but it would be an invaluable guide...
by Kerry B Collison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
At a time when Australians are wavering in support of a proposed US-led invasion of Iraq, more than six hundred US Marines rotating on R & R in Bali suddenly disappear; then, Kuta erupts in a fireball and Australia falls into line with America's demand to become part of the 'Coalition of the Willing'.
Based...
Vending Machines
An American Social History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero—a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century...
Sociocultural Intelligence
A New Discipline in Intelligence Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This new discipline proposes a systematic understanding of the customs, moral attitudes, and cultures of foreign populations to enhance the efficacy of national security initiatives.
God's Loud Hand
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993
If religious poetry may be thought of as a great river fed, in the English language, by two main streams—the devotional tradition, leading in recent times to Anne Sexton and John Berryman, and the contrastingly philosophical tradition, exemplified by William Blake—it is to the latter that this...
Dragon Undercover
A Dragon Shifter Romantic Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
"Lia Davis has away of telling a story to make you feel you are right there looking into the eyes of a dragon." -Kimberley, Goodreads
Dragon shifter and team lead for DSD—Dark Scales Division—Owen Ashton has never lost a case.
When his sister’s murderer turns serial killer,...
by Lia Davis, Kerry Adrienne
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Fugitive Tristan Hawthorne loved his captain and has spent five years searching for proof to convince Shadow Fleet he’s innocent his lover’s murder. Captured and bound for transport to a penal colony, he comes face to face with an old enemy and revelations about the murder. Tristan vows to expose...
Snowed Undercover
A Dragon Shifter Romantic Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
“When the auroras sparkle green and pink, the monster will return…”
Agent Luke Snow knows all too well what it’s like to lose a mate. His last case ended the search and siege—aka death—of his mate’s killer. The hole in his soul remains. When his DSD team lead, Owen, sends Snow...
by Kerry Adrienne, Lia Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Some family secrets are best left buried.
Ophelia Hunt travels to her family’s ancestral home in Savannah, Georgia, to help her beloved grandmother get her affairs in order. To destress, she spends the day shopping, ending up at an antique store near the river. A hand-blown glass jar, shoved...