James Elliott: 45 books

James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him."Reflections" is a very personal and very unique view of the world, but it also speaks to the human condition...a condition each of us shares with Mr. Foster....

Recent relationship science research finds that intense, satisfying romantic love is a real phenomenon occurring in couples. Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples provides the field of marriage and family therapy with the first model for assisting couples to sustain...

GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment--you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to...

Mark Bowman's life changes overnight when his family moves from Barrio Echo Park to segregated Glendale, California. He becomes not just a normal teenager but well known and popular largely due to his job which gives him the ability to supply every possible party favor coveted by teenagers. In the...

Swing is a fully-featured user interface development kit for Java applications. Building on the foundations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing enables cross-platform applications to use any of several pluggable look-and-feels. Swing developers can take advantage of its rich, flexible features...

Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations....

In 1963 Mark Bowman, just shy of his thirteenth birthday, is basically kidnapped by his family from his home in Houston and finds himself the only white boy in the Los Angeles Echo Park Barrio. His existence in trying to adjust to California, where he is an overweight, poorly dressed outcast, with...

The sixties have passed into the seventies but still retain their hold on California and the nation. In this, the fifth and final volume of the California Sixties Pentology Malibu and the people in his life are drawn ever deeper into the world of guns, drugs. violence and volatile relationships. The...

For Malibu and Kathy life changes overnight throwing them together into challenges just to live. Still faced with their denied passion for each other they find themselves forced together in an arrangement that is neither friends nor lovers but a combination of both. After living together for a year,...

When Malibu's best friend Reno is tragically killed his girlfriend Bright Eyes and Malibu are overcome with grief. On the spur of the moment Bright Eyes decides to abandon California and go in search of an ex-boyfriend in Michigan. Her only means of getting there; hitchhiking. Without hesitation Malibu...

From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across the nation share a troubling and largely invisible past: they were once sites of industrial manufacturers, such as plastics factories or machine shops, that likely left behind...

John Charming. Ex knight. Current monster hunter. John's past is complicated enough, so he tries to keep life simple: Find monster. Kill Monster. But when he wanders into Vista Verde, a small town with a big secret, he soon discovers that the simple answer is a load of bull. This is...

John Charming. Ex knight. Current monster hunter. The line between reality and dream is never entirely clear under the best of circumstances...and when John Charming finds himself being hunted through a nightmare house, it is far from the best of circumstances. This is a short story...

John Charming. Ex knight. Current monster hunter. Somewhere in Alaska a locked house full of ripped apart bodies and one teacup poodle covered in blood. Somewhere in Alaska, the voice of a dead woman speaks through a car radio. And somewhere in Alaska, the last surviving descendant of one of...