Mark Alan: 97 books
by Mark Leslie, Robert J. Sawyer, Kelley Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
Strawberry Fairchild & the Green Flame
A Fable by Alan Mark Train
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
From flippers to slippers
Some tinge to rose.
From slipknots to fishnets
The rolling of fins
Whisper a clothing of shows.
New Perspectives on the Civil War
Myths and Realities of the National Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...
The Surge
2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both...
Comparative Politics
Rationality, Culture, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
Detection of Drug Misuse
Biomarkers, Analytical Advances and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Drug misuse and dependence is an ever evolving field of study, which has exploded over recent years owing to the advent of the internet. Due to the ever-growing number of young people using drugs recreationally and the privatisation of drug screening and detection services, there is the need to disseminate...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Capturing Images and Insight
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
Words Over War
Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2000
The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention...