James David: 657 books

A song to match everyone's heartbeat. A soaring melody, a pulse-pounding beat, a touching lyric: Music takes a moment and makes it a memory. It's a universal language that can capture love, heartbreak, loss, soul searching, and wing spreading-all in the span of a few notes. In Behind the Song,...

This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary...

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre: - People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies - A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly - A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature - A hole inside a closet...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.

SHADOWS WITHIN> Within the darkness of the human mind, beneath the growing layers of chaos, is where love and hope still hide. Look inside yourself to discover the SHADOWS WITHIN.

Das Haus Nummer 7 am Ocean Drive ist eine der besten Adressen in den Hamptons, der Heimat der Reichen und Mächtigen. Doch hinter der schönen Fassade des Anwesens verbirgt sich eine schreckliche Vergangenheit – es ist der Tatort einer Serie von Morden, die nie gelöst wurden. Als auf dem Grundstück...

Als Diana Hotchkiss vom Balkon ihres Apartments in Washington, D.C. in den Tod stürzt, ist ihr Freund Benjamin Casper zutiefst betroffen. Nur wenige Minuten zuvor war er in ihrer Wohnung gewesen und hatte Überwachungskameras angebracht, weil Diana ihn darum gebeten hatte. Doch nach ihrem Tod sind...

Billy Harney ist bereit, für seinen Job bei der Polizei von Chicago alles zu geben – sogar sein eigenes Leben. Und tatsächlich kommt es eines Tages beinahe zum Äußersten: Billy wird schwer verletzt in seinem Apartment gefunden, neben ihm die Leichen seiner ehemaligen Partnerin Kate und seiner...

FBI-Agentin Emmy Dockery ist jung und engagiert. Ihre Fähigkeit, Details zu bemerken, die andere übersehen, hat ihr bereits beeindruckende Erfolge eingebracht. Doch nun stellt eine Reihe von Morden selbst sie vor ein Rätsel. Die Opfer, oft alleinstehende Senioren und Obdachlose, scheinen alle durch...

I am an old man now; the burden of fourscore years is resting upon me. But the events of a certain April day in the year 783 A.U.C.—full half a century ago—are as fresh in my memory as if they had happened yesterday. At that time I was stationed with my Hundred on garrison duty at the Castle of Antonia,...

Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies. By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...

What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...

The Tao Te Ching or ‘Canon of the Way of Virtue' is a classical Chinese text generally dated to the 6th century BCE. It has traditionally been attributed to Laozi (or Lao Tzu), the ‘Old Master', said to have been a scribe at the court of the Zhou Dynasty. The Tao Te Ching, is central to both...

This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church...