Derek Davis: 8 books

The sunlight saved you. They had set the wire across the road, the three dead-eyed riders, the third man exuding an almost subhuman filth. Had they meant to kill you or just sever your legs? Your hog is wrecked, your arm is broken, but your anger is intact – always. You're small for a biker,...

Illegal gambling, confidential diamond importing, money laundering, and murder are common practice for millionaire Wayne Remington. Basing his operation in Memphis, Tennessee has turned heads and District Attorney Ben Lawson intends to do more than watch as he fights to bring Remington’s operation...

From the depths of the human mind to the reaches of extra-galactic space, these stories embrace anything and everything that's human (and non-human). Visit Prester John in his hidden Indian kingdom, Satiety Jones on the bottom of the sea, Meester Seven on the planet Altamoria IV, and an introspective...

The last breeze from the Big Bang fades to nothing along the road to Deffenburg PA, leaving this town of Chinese, Poles, WASPs, Suscogen Indians, animated shadows and bridge trolls to take up the unfolding. But nothing comes easy as government scientists, militant Amish, black revolutionaries, nuclear...

Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois,...

Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy is a collection of nine new essays on philosophical elements in Jefferson’s writings. The first of its kind, this collection should lead to further philosophical analysis of Jefferson’s thinking—especially by philosophers, who tend to appreciate Jefferson only...

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...

On July 11, 2054, in the capital city of the new world government, someone murdered the governors wife. Although absolutely certain that the young man currently sweating bullets on Death Row for the crime is innocent, the governor has no solid evidence. Powerless to stop the execution without incriminating...