Michael Jerome: 20 books

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.

Ethan was facing the fact that he belonged to a species fast on its way to extinction. How can you be a success as a dirty old man if people aren't shocked by your lechery? In the post-Kinsey world, he was just laughed at. Then Ethan discovered he had strange powers. Whatever he wanted, he...

A secret war to save two worlds has been waged for generations - over and over, again. The three principle combatants - the Black Elf known as Sage and his adversaries, the demigods Simon and the Unicorn - have their own reasons for saving the worlds. No matter how many times they've waged the war,...

The Sage Chronicles: Family Matters Book 2 *The Three have declared war on the city.  * The battle lines have been drawn on three fronts. On one front, an invasion from an army of Rabids, led by Wyldes, threatens to tear the city apart. if the city falls, the world will follow....

Sage and his best friend, Lucas Tolliver, embark on separate missions that will impact each other, as well as their respective families. They soon discover that their missions intertwine their families in ways they never expected. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman from Sage's past has been hunting for him. Now that she's found him, the world will never be the same.

Mama is in her last hours of life. Before she dies, Mama calls together four of her oldest friends and former enemies: King Loren of the Pure Elves and his niece, Princess Zara, Marianna who is the best Warrior Mage Mama has ever known, and Marianna's estranged husband, Panther - the man who would...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple." --New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014 Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog Included...

Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts. This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...

More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written—many in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com, including 'Ticking' by Allen M. Steele; 'All Cats are Gray' by Andre...

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...

At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...

"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!" --Franz Kafka Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...