Mark Summers: 15 books

Set sail for high-seas hijinks and nautical nonsense with those paragons of Pirattitude who invented the famous International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Whether readers are old hands at pirating or hopeless landlubbers, the Pirate Guys will have them pirate-savvy in no time with sure-fire pirate pickup...

Nicholls, Montgomery, and Knowles on The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance is a leading work in this complex and growing area of law. It provides a comprehensive and analytical treatment of the laws covering the extradition arrangements between the UK and other states, as well as international...

The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and...

Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark...

Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process...

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question,...

Relations between the press and politicians in modern America have always been contentious. In The Press Gang, Mark Summers tells the story of the first skirmishes in this ongoing battle. Following the Civil War, independent newspapers began to separate themselves from partisan control and assert...

A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler. There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...

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.   ...

Learn how to manage your tenants, deal with problems, and handle evictions on your own. The Landlord's Legal Guide in Illinois offers clear and easy explanations of Illinois rental property laws. Complete with all the forms you need, as well as a list of resources for Illinois landlords and copies...

Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the...

Everyone knows Cap'n Slappy as a legendary pirate, pillaging and plundering and delivering savage beatings with his fists and forehead. But he also has a more artistic side, and in "Cap'n Slappy's Parade of Pirate Poetry," he offers his poetic output with the same finesse his blunderbuss offers its explosive output - sort of all over and with awesome effect.

""I am going back through your two Caper books. I gotta tell ya, they are great!! " Robert "Cockroach" Blair --- The authors of "Pirattitude!" and "The Diego Garcia Caper" present another tale of the pirates aboard The Festering Boil. The crew has its sights...

The third in the "Festering Boil" caper series, by the creators of International Talk Like a Pirate Day and authors of "Pirattitude!" and "A Pirate's Life for Me." When the crew of the Festering Boil return to the Caribbean, they are confronted by an old nemesis with...