Eric Williams: 38 books
Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics
Techniques for Adapting Books, Comics and Real-Life Stories into Screenplays
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Once you understand the basics of screenwriting, ideas for your next screenplay are everywhere. Whether it comes from a favorite children’s book, a summer novel you discover accidentally, a news story that catches your imagination, or a chapter from your own life — advanced screenwriting strategies...
by Eric Walters, Jerome Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
When Nick and Kia are invited to former Toronto Raptor Jerome "Junk Yard Dog" Williams' basketball camp in Washington, DC, they quickly discover that this is no ordinary summer hoop camp. This is a basketball boot camp that focuses on discipline and hard work. Jerome and Johnnie's father,...
by Eric Walters, Jerome Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
It's summertime and hoops season is over, but that doesn't keep Nick and Kia off the court. One very hot day they head to the rec center for a swim but end up on the outdoor courts that are usually dominated by older players. Their enjoyment of the court is short-lived, however, when three teens show...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
by Eric T. Bradlow, Keith E. Niedermeier, Patti Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2009
To financial advisors who ask, “Who has the time and money for marketing?” the authors have an important piece of advice: Treat your practice like a small business, or you will be put out of business.
In an economy in flux, prospective clients are hesitant to put their financial future...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...
by Eric Gardner, Sarah Wider, Susan M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college...
by Marlon Anatol, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Adriana Beltrán
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The Americas face many security challenges, including drug trafficking, organized crime, guerrilla movements, terrorism, and environmental challenges. Experts have long debated whether some countries in the region can be classified as failed states. While various states in the Americas have been labeled...
To Transform a City
Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
To Transform a City is a timely, compelling book that helps readers understand how to think about cities, their own city, and the broad strategies needed for kingdom impact. The book begins with an overview of the importance of cities in the new day in which we live. The authors address the process...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
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,...
The 9th Degree "Alex gets his five minutes of fame!"
The 9th Degree: "Alex gets his five mintes of fame!", #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Alex is the normal guy with the average life who is in search of his place in society. Alex worked very hard to change his average persona and achieve the Fifteen Minutes of genuine love and admired Fame.
Alex gets the formula for his fame from Mr. J, a local transient philosopher who warns...
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller
A Nomad Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature,...