Michael Daniel: 242 books

Magic, myth and alien worlds come together in this collection of short stories from Writers, Poets and Deviants. ~ A young witch and her talking dog must rid their home of unwelcome guests. ~ A pair of newsmen travel to Alaska to hear an astonishing tale of an encounter with an extinct creature. ~...

In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...

Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish–American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Santayana’s birth. Appropriately, the...

Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers...

We tend to think of disasters as uncontrollable acts of nature or inevitable accidents. But are such incidents unavoidable or ever truly accidental? The authors of this remarkable book say we actually do have the power to prevent tragedies such as the flooding from Hurricane Katrina, the death toll from...

A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field. This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from...

Experts describe the latest research in a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field, the study of groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. Intelligence does not arise only in individual brains; it also arises in groups of individuals. This is collective intelligence:...

Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them? Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict? Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference? Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives? Why are...

Ainsi parla l'Oncle, premier manifeste de la négritude, paru en 1928, est le grand livre sur la condition noire, sur la relation à l'Afrique et à sa culture. Lire aujourd'hui Ainsi parla l'Oncle pour découvrir un geste essentiel. Revisiter l'Oncle Vingt-quatre auteurs relisent Ainsi parla l'Oncle...

- A Greek god seeks out a woman he once seduced… - A tragic letter from 1910 chronicles a young woman's quest to find her lost love… - A terminally ill teen finds forbidden love... - A historian travels to the past and finds herself in the arms of Benedict Arnold. Enjoy these stories and...

They Came They Saw They Conquered Bundle Veni, Vidi, Vici! 11 Tales of Alien Invasion! - "Lenin of the Stars" by Robert Jeschonek- "Neighborhood Watch" by Russ Crossley- "Silent Victor" by J. Daniel Sawyer- "Assemblers of Infinity" by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason- "Fairchild"...

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2015. Includes stories by Nino Cipri, Seth Dickinson, Jeffrey Ford, Yoon Ha Lee, Maria Dahvana Headley, David Herter, Kameron Hurley, Noah Keller, David D. Levine, Michael Livingston, Usman T. Malik, Haralambi Markov,...

This issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of three sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories and one intimate poem - from four of todays top speculative fiction writers. S. Elliot Brandis opens with a visit to airport security (what could be more chilling). Award...

Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from...