Parker Parker: 3170 books
Stonehenge - A New Understanding
Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation—about Stonehenge’s celestial significance, human...
Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins...
The Clod-Hoppin’ Judge
Memoirs of Judge Gerald Parker Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
It was a hot August day in 1920 when a man rode on horseback away from his forty-acre Arkansas farm to fetch a doctor. His son, Gerald Brown, was about to be born. A short time later as he gazed at the tiny baby in his arms, he had no idea that Gerald would one day be the first in his family to graduate...
Save the Males
Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
With piercing wit and perceptive analysis, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kathleen Parker explores how men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades. She argues that the feminist movement veered off course from its original aim of helping women achieve equality...
The Persians
Lost Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they...
The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans...
Love and Glory
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Boone Adams: He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones it didn't intend to keep.
Jennifer Grayle: She was the campus golden girl,...
Boston Noir 2
The Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller!
"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...
Psychology After the Crisis
Scientific paradigms and political debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker, features a newly written introduction...
The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
and how to end it
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989, The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex...
by Levi Jones Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
What is Poetry to me?
The words forged within the fires of my heart, and in my mind upon an anvil of thought. To produce a beautiful art form harmoniously between the mind, heart, and soul.
One of the opening thoughts in my book "Seasons of the Soul". A...
Battle for the Big Sky
Representation and the Politics of Place in the Race for the US Senate
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
***Battle for the Big Sky ***delves into one of the few competitive races of the 2012 election: the US Senate campaign in Montana. Author David C.W. Parker was granted exceptional access by both candidates over the 21 months preceding the election, allowing him to tell the story of the race in rare...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
Artificial Beauté, The Breakthrough
Six Stories of Transforming from Hurt to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
When we are faced with adversity and real-life trauma, we can react in two ways—either by losing all hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
So introduces this raw anthology of six women who, through undying determination, strength,...