Michael A: 1281 books
Festival of Crime
Nineteen Tales of Murder and Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Throughout Minnesota, from Austin to International Falls, people flock every year to more festivals--county fairs, arts and craft shows, ice-fishing contests, and music festivals--than you can shake a stick at. Most come for the food and fun, but a few festival-goers have more devious intentions in...
by Fiction River, Allyson Longueira, Irette Y. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
From baking a magical love spell to having the opportunity to rectify a mistake from the past to hunting a serial killer, Debut Writers’ Showcase highlights stories from Fiction River’s first year that marked a first professional sale for these up-and-coming authors. Since first appearing in a...
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 24, January 2017 (Serialization Special: Heinlein’s Hugo-winning Double Star)
Galaxy's Edge, #24
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 24: January 2017
Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Larry Hodges, Nick DiChario, Mercedes Lackey, Liz Colter, Kevin J. Anderson & Neil Peart, Marina J. Lostetter, Edward M. Lerner,...
by Jenny Oliver, A. L. Michael, Maxine Morrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This festive season, indulge in everything you love about Christmas: food, family and love. Get that fire blazing, nab yourself some mulled wine and snuggle up with Jenny Oliver, A. L. Michael and Maxine Morrey as they show you that love is actually all around! The Little Christmas Kitchen This Christmas,...
by Fiction River, Dean Wesley Smith, Annie Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by A. L. Michael
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Meet Tigerlily James: romance cynic, North Londoner and die-hard margarita fan. Tigerlily James has been a member of the Young and Bitter Club ever since she was dumped on Valentine’s day. By her fiancé. Surviving on a diet of cynicism and margarita-fuelled ‘Misery Dinners’ with her best friends,...
Viruses, Plagues, and History
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses....
Beyond the Bounds
Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
"Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow."
–C. S. Lewis
This understanding of God's foreknowledge has united the church for twenty centuries. But advocates of "open theism" are presenting a different vision of God and a different...
The Sexual Person
Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Two principles capture the essence of the official Catholic position on the morality of sexuality: first, that any human genital act must occur within the framework of heterosexual marriage; second, each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life. In this comprehensive overview...
Exercise for Mood and Anxiety:Proven Strategies for Overcoming Depression and Enhancing Well-Being
Proven Strategies for Overcoming Depression and Enhancing Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Exercise has long been touted anecdotally as an effective tool for mood improvement, but only recently has rigorous science caught up with these claims. There is now overwhelming evidence that regular exercise can help relieve low mood-from feelings of stress and anxiety to full depressive episodes....
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Countering Heedless Jihad
Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Using concepts that are not already a part of the militant discourse as a way to undermine extremism, Countering Heedless Jihad explores a stratagem aimed at defusing jihadist ideology. It explains how to counteract idealist theology using concepts from it, borrowing ideas from some revered Islamic...
by Richard T. Callaghan, Michael P. Pateman, Daniel Torres Etayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...