Mark J: 585 books

 Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.” Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives...

Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845–1884) was one of the Old Army’s renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself...

New Year's Eve is a collection of short stories produced by an online workshopping group formed by the Australian Writer’s Centre. The stories are based around the theme of New Year's Eve and span different genres; some embracing celebration, others following a darker journey into the New Year. The...

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...

Persuasive Attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Primary investigates the nature of persuasive attacks on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential primary campaign. It begins by extending the Theory of Persuasive Attack to include attacks on character as well as attacks on actions. William...

ICARUS AFLAME is the first in a series of Gordian Palmer sci-fi spy thrillers. As an agent of Project Icarus, a top secret department of the Central Intelligence Agency, Palmer is sent on a mission to stop Xian, a merciless humanoid operative of the Belial star system, before the alien succeeds in helping an infamous Quuraki dictator develop the first hypersonic aerospace bomber.

The intellectual history of pragmatism traditionally posits that its origins are found in the works of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. What if that story is only partially true? Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, the foremost first generation British pragmatist, was one of the most vocal...

On a cave exploration with their Uncle Ned, Danny and Donna Davenport find more excitement than they bargained for. More dangerous than the deep caverns and sharp jagged rocks, tight suffocating crawl spaces, and bats flying free in the darkness, the twins encounter a host of unsavory, freakish characters. To save their lives, they must make an impossible ESCAPE FROM CONVICT CAVE.

Sean O’Hanlon, an Irish American, is irrevocably linked to the land of his birth – that ancient place, its history and its people. Sean struggles to make sense of the legacy left to him by successive generations of family.  Returning to Derry as a youth during “the troubles” between Catholics...

In The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation, Mark J. Blechner argues that the mind and brain should be understood as a single unit – the "mindbrain" – which manipulates our raw perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts,...

Crime Lord Malkie Thompson's spent 25 years, killing, maiming and blackmailing his way to the top. He's got everything he ever wanted, except his health.The knives are out, his rivals sense blood. Their time is now but Thompson's not going down without a fight.Violence in the Blood...

Detective Inspector Louisa Bennett’s arrest of Portal CEO Benoit Walsh and the resulting scandal have done little to diminish the network’s popularity. Its hand-held terminals have been replaced by implants, providing a deeper and more personal integration for millions of devotees. Yet...

Hidden Depths is a collection of short stories produced by an online workshopping group formed by the Australian Writer's Centre. The stories span different genres; from domestic noir to eco-fiction, YA sweet romance, dark fantasy and more. Some provide light entertainment, others follow a darker...

Over 3,800 exquisite images demonstrate every principle and capture the characteristic presentations of the most frequently encountered disorders. The result is a remarkably thorough, yet focused and pragmatic, source of clinical guidance. The New Edition updates and distills all of the most...