D J Courtney: 7 books

In this exciting sequel to Auriel 3, the intriguing tale of mans first unwitting contact with an intelligent extra-terrestrial species continues to unfold. Jesse Rigard has kept his promise to the alien Thorga, not revealing their existence to any other human. To Jesses dismay, he learns that...

Jesse was off exploring where he shouldn't have been when his ship malfunctioned and crashed on an unsurveyed planet. The outlook was bleak. With only limited supplies and a disabled ship, he was stranded in the middle of a desert on an uninhabited world or was it?

After their long journey, the colonists who landed on Barax 4 were overjoyed to find that the planet was even better in reality than it had appeared in the survey reports.Their new home was a lush, green paradise.They quickly went about the business of getting settled in, thankful for their good fortune.Not...

A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability. Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...

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 &...

The Seattle Play Series presents their debut collection of plays about Green Lake by Seattle playwrights.

Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless...