Matthew Gordon: 18 books

Book cover of The White Apple
by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

The lights were dimmed, but it seemed as though there was no reason for them to be on at all. A cornucopia of candles was all that was required, their flickering beams forming a curious interplay with the little electric lighting that was available. The soft golden orange of the walls blended with...
Book cover of I Drank the Toxic Cocktail
by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

Fairly looked around the room anxiously. The sterile white walls were no comfort; the spotted plaster of the ceiling was not much better. The beaten linoleum floor shone with a dim glow from the overhead fluorescent lighting, showing a reflection of his jeans where the mop had washed most recently....
Book cover of The Knight and the Princess
by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013

What 2012's I Drank the Toxic Cocktail started, The Knight and the Princess continues in spirit, although it is no sequel. The Knight and the Princess uses a series of character descriptions, hypotheticals, cryptic messages and logic puzzles to advance the reader through its fairy tale storyline....
Book cover of The Thin Blue Line: An In-depth Look at the Policing Practices of the Los Angeles Police Department
by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012

For the past thirty years, the Los Angeles Police Department has been accused of endless charges of brutality and corruption. From the highly public and polarizing Rodney King beating, to the shocking Rampart Scandal, many have viewed the department as a brutal, yet effective, crime fight force. To...
Book cover of Null Legacy
by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

Enough test trials guarantees every ending to every story and every outcome to every event. A group of maintenance workers called nulls is enlisted to operate the world; they track it meticulously down to each time a colour changes or a shadow moves. Reality distorts in even the most everyday situations....
Book cover of To Live, To Think, To Hope: Inspirational Quotes of Helen Keller
by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012

One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Helen went from being locked in a prison of darkness and silence, to one of the most well-respected philosophers and beacons of change in the modern world. Now, with this book, one can experience Helen's most inspirational & life changing thoughts.Covering...
Book cover of Syllable Weight

Syllable Weight

Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

by Matthew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight...
Book cover of The Untamed West
by Western Fictioneers, L. J. Washburn, Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018

A collection of twenty-nine tales of the Old West featuring previously unpublished stories by such classic Western writers as James Reasoner, Douglas Hirt, McKendree Long, and Michael R. Ritt. Edited by award winning author, L. J. Washburn. Western Fictioneers is the only writers’ organization devoted...
Book cover of Healing the Hidden Hurts

Healing the Hidden Hurts

Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults

by Victoria Drury, Emma Birch, Ann Cartwright
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

Healing the Hidden Hurts: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties. With contributions from social...
Book cover of Editing Lives

Editing Lives

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

by Matthew Brack, Leslie A. Chilton, Loren Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Book cover of A Political Companion to Philip Roth
by Lee Trepanier, Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017

Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most prolific and acclaimed writers. Roth's first novel, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), received the National Book Award, and he followed this stunning debut with more than thirty books -- earning another National Book Award, two National...
Book cover of Writing History with Lightning

Writing History with Lightning

Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

by Kenneth Greenberg, William L. Andrews, Lesley J. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
Book cover of Mental Modeling Approach

Mental Modeling Approach

Risk Management Application Case Studies

by Matthew D. Wood, Sarah Thorne, Daniel Kovacs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016

This book provides an easy-to-read, user-oriented introduction to mental models research and Mental Modeling TechnologyTM.  Mental models are powerful influences human behavior. The book offers insight from the developers and most experienced application professionals of a widely proven methodology...
Book cover of Christian Physicalism?

Christian Physicalism?

Philosophical Theological Criticisms

by Thomas Atkinson, John W. Cooper, Marc Cortez
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
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