David John: 902 books

The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It" The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Giovanni De Feo ("Kiss of the Mouthless Girl")...

Identical twin sisters orphaned and separated and adopted at birth neither aware of each others existence neither aware of their unique heritage nor the corrupt motivations behind their adoption. Emily grows up in poverty and injustice and with little parental interest. Tiara grows up in wealth and...

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." A proverb from the past. A critique of the present. A forecast of the future. If your leaders have good intentions, how do they know they are not on the road to hell? They do not know. They cannot know. They can only believe. What if they...

Episode two - DESTROYING WORLDS We all want to be free, true or false? Obviously it is true. Or is it? What if the price of freedom is too great? "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." But can we all be vigilant eternally? Easier if someone else is vigilant for you? Even...

Aliens have arrived on Earth in gigantic spaceships. They look human, but they are not. They say they have come not to invade, but to trade. And to marry rich men. They will bring a New Order to Planet Earth. And a very violent New Disorder. The aliens will change not only Planet Earth, but Humanity...

What does it mean to have a Passion for Dead Leaves? It means to love what is old. To love what is past. To love what is dead. But it can mean more than that. It can mean to resent the new. To fear the future. To believe that change is bad. It can mean to oppose all change. To oppose...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Kat Howard ("Returned") and Christopher...

Much of our time at the movies is spent in other people’s homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first book to address the question of the ubiquitous conjuncture of the moving image and its domestic architecture. Arguing that in cinema we pay to occupy...

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions...

The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise,...

For more than forty years, pastor R. Kent Hughes has shared the gospel with thousands of people and raised the standard of expository preaching in North America and beyond. To celebrate his legacy and pay tribute to his years of ministry, fifteen of Hughes's friends and colleagues from across...

Everyone is looking for power. Political campaigns play to the power of fear and hope; advertising agencies rely on the power of appetite, both wielding power by the means of words.   But churches have something different and better. Churches have the gospel. Though we live in the world,...

In The Nature of Reiki: A Path of Inclusion, John David Sparks connects the character and core of Reikis ability to illuminate our own true nature with the beauty and joy inherent in life itself. Using a synthesis of some of the worlds most influential teachings, Sparks shows us through his...