Michael Francis: 44 books

Simple and delicious seafood recipes for a successful cooking experience. “The Only Seafood Cookbook You Will Ever Need” This enjoyable introduction to some of the world’s most beloved foods reveals the essential secrets for success in buying and cooking delicious and nutritious...

This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy,...

Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians were drawn...

Bobs loyalty to the Troops was at the highest level. He went where the Troops were and if there was a war going on, Bob became more determined to see us. Bob was like one of us. He was breathing the same air that we were breathing and that mattered. Bob made the Troops the stars, the...

If you have ever wondered what it is truly like to become a real Christian and have an actual relationship with the living God and Creator of Heaven and Earth, then Jewels Found along the Path of Life is for you. Jewels Found along the Path of Life is the remarkable story of one man's journey...

In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. With roughly eight hundred Spaniards and numerous native carriers and black slaves, the Jiménez expedition was larger than the combined...

Within this book the reader will discover a diverse selection of stories, each complete unto itself. Some are humorous, others macabre, all irreverent and well worth reading. From the true jaw dropping account of creative medical procedures in a top ranked California hospital, to an impromptu dog...

In writing the original book and the revised text, I am constantly reminded that we are a house divided, and I feel deeply the lament of the psalmist who cried out: It is not enemies who taunt me I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me I could hide from them. But it is...

Em-Jay, wayward biker and dedicated romantic is the protagonist in this story. His casual use of opiates slowly spirals into addiction. He struggles to control his dependency and project a clean social image. The stress of his alternative lifestyle inevitably creates cracks in the facade and soon...

These stories are true. They are for dog lovers of all breeds. Some are reconstructed from conversations with the actual participants, others from my own experience. I do not promote or condone dog fi ghting but neither do I tolerate the continual stream of deliberate misinformation and blatant lies...

"Dear readers, no animals were killed or injured when I wrote this book. It contains no trans-fats, gluten, sugars or other harmful, unhealthy ingredients. It does contain twenty non-fattening stories, recently selected for your reading pleasure. There are a few highly sexualised passages in some...

This paper is a contribution to the topological study of vector fields on manifolds. In particular we shall be concerned with the problems of exist­ ence of r linearly independent vector fields. For r = 1 the classical result of H. Hopf asserts that the vanishing of the Euler characteristic is the...

Mother earth intended all of her creatures equal footing on planet, Earth. Humans, over the course of their existence, have time and again flagrantly disregarded this balance. Mother earth has given the human race one last chance to redeem themselves. Lightwalkers will try everything in their powers...

An ancient entity roams the streets of a Southern California city. He "borrows" other living mortal bodies to perpetuate his journey in this world. During these sometimes brief tenures he interacts with the "living" often for the betterment of those he befriends. Somewhat world-weary after six hundred...