David Radford: 12 books

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature...

More than two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—continue to reexamine and debate whom and what they represent. Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia explores the complex...

The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.   ...

ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, a fvisionairy anthology dreamed up by two Pacific Northwest authors In the aftermath of the presidential inauguration, Bob Brown and Phyllis Irene Radford asked the science fiction writers they know to imagine a post-Trump, post-truth world ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS is about the...

And on the Eighth Day God Created Beer. Beer is what separates humans from animals… unless you have too much. Seriously, anthropologists, archeologists, and sociologists seem to think that when humans first emerged on earth as human, they possessed fire, language, a sense of spirituality,...

More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity. This exploration defines this anthology.  So many of the stories ask what has America become?  What will it be in the...

Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out? focuses on researcher identity and the role it plays in conducting research, whether as a member of the culture being studied (i.e., an insider) or as an outsider to that culture. Contributors address the problems researchers...

The newest CampCon Anthology!  From a magician trying to prove his worth to rootless space denizen; to women with Grand Purpose; and engineered creatures who just want to live a normal life; these tales will engage your heart as well as your imagination as you consider what may come next... Another fantastic read for lovers of diverse fiction and strange stories.

What's better than beer? More beer! In ages past, the greatest anthology ever to be drunkenly conceived next to a campfire burst forth onto the genre fiction scene by storm. Now, just as the hangover has begun to settle and the coffee has begun to kick in, the time for the Hair of the Dog is upon...

From the familiar to the fantastical, but never the mundane, this anthology explores many wondrous and whimsical creatures, from foo foo dogs to tree octopuses, robins to seals. Come explore the possibilities, whether they lead you to far corners of this world, or far beyond even those. Yet one more fabulous anthology for readers who love diverse fiction and strange stories.

Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist A co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century...

The fungi have been major players in the molecular revolution that has transformed biology. Because they can be manipulated as microorganisms, yeast and Neurospora provide information that is difficult to acquire with plants and animals, and experimental findings with fungi often throw light on corresponding...