David Jack: 103 books
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
by Cheryl Mullenax, Randy Chandler, Jeff Strand
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence--including torture, dismemberment, self-mutilation, and home abortion--that are designed to push buttons as well as boundaries...strictly for hardcore...
by Rafael Alvarez, Jack Bludis, Tim Cockey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Brand-new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.
Laura Lippman has lived in Baltimore...
The Texanist
Fine Advice on Living in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The Texanist, Texas Monthly's perennially popular advice column, has become the magazine's most-read feature. With an inimitable style and an unassailable wholesomeness, columnist David Courtney has counseled many a well-intentioned Texan, native or wannabe, on how to properly conduct him- or herself....
A Whisper of Blood
Stories of Vampirism
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews).
Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology”...
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...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
Transitions
Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...
Inventing American Tradition
From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States—a nation born with relative indifference,...
THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics
Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
by David "Jack" Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Start NOW and discover how to quickly and easily train your dog using simple science and a step-by-step system that will produce successful results that your dog will love, and you will too!How you can train your dog, young or old, Yorkshire Terrier or Wolfhound… and get astonishing results.Your...
by David C. Black, Jack Donovan, Bill Bunton
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
SystemC provides a robust set of extensions to the C++ language that enables rapid development of complex models of hardware and software systems. The authors focus on practical use of the language for modeling real systems, showing:
A step-by-step build-up of syntax
Code examples for each...
Taiwan's Environmental Struggle
Toward a Green Silicon Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid...
by David Poul Jack
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
A spiritual seeker, in his search for the ultimate truth, joins a mind control cult and gradually surrenders his will, his grip on reality, his sanity, his dignity and his life to a powerful and charismatic New Age guru. He finds himself confronted with the darkness of his own psyche and a supernatural...