M M Moore: 153 books
by Steven M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Civilization passes through a social singularity. Traditional empires like the U.S. and E.U. break apart. China collapses. Companies consolidate and expand their domain around the Earth and to the far reaches of the solar system, becoming the glue that prevents anarchy as they contract mercenaries to...
Sexual Myths of Modernity
Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized...
Loyalty in Time of Trial
The African American Experience During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were...
by Steven M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A Neo-Nazi conspiracy threatens Europe . . . Esther Brookstone’s life is at a crossroads. A Scotland Yard inspector who specializes in stolen art, she’s reluctantly considering retirement. A three-time widow, she can’t quite decide whether paramour and colleague Interpol Agent Bastiann van Coevorden...
The African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, especially...
Through the Storm, Through the Night
A History of African American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices...
by Betty Wood, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional...
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...
Caring for Equality
A History of African American Health and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care—caused...
by Steven M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The apocalypse kills billions—numbers so large that most survivors’ minds snap shut. Foes of the US have attacked with a bioengineered contagion that spreads around the world. One of only a few survivors, Penny Castro, ex-USN diver and LA County Sheriff’s Deputy, reacts differently. She fights...
Clergy Moms
A Survival Guide to Balancing Family and Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Walking the tightrope of home and parish life for clergy parents is notoriously difficult in all the mainline Protestant denominations, but most books on ordination and vocation ignore the question of family life. The ordination of women, the prevalence of two-career marriages, the increasing need to...
by Nina M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The race problem in the American criminal justice system persists because we enable it. The tendency of liberals to point a finger at law enforcement, racial conservatives, the War on Drugs, is misguided. Black as well as white voters, Democrat as much as Republican lawmakers, President Obama as much...
Walking with God
Week by Week, Day by Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
In the hustle and bustle of life, it is important to find time to devote to God and His kingdom. We do not know what each day brings, but it is safe to say we should be armed with God’s Word as we go about our day. “Walking with God: Week by Week, Day by Day” provides a footprint for the Christian...
Brightfire
A Tale of Sutton Hoo
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Brightfire covers important events during and after the reign of King Raedwald of Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, East Anglia, UK, and is set mainly in and around his homestead nearby, with some scenes set in Northumbria and elsewhere. The story is set in the period 608-633 AD, when Christianity is struggling...