Mccracken: 83 books
by Amie McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The human race is on the verge of disappearing from the evolutionary cycle. Our species has stagnated, surpassed by bacteria, animals, and even plants. When the World Health Organization is reorganized and tasked with designing better humans to prevent extinction, the Modified Project is born.
Every...
by Amie McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Elias is a changeling, a man without hormones, emotionless.
Emotional Modification Therapy has made logic and reason powerful, but new information questions the validity of the process. Elias has no desires. It wouldn’t be natural. Until a woman, Aloisa, walks into his lab at the hospital...
Art Nurture
The Simple Guide to Cultivating Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Would you like to infuse more passion, inspiration, and creativity into your daily life? You possess the seed of creativity. Cultivating your creativity is as simple and natural a process as nurturing a seed to grow. You can engage the simple tools, found in this book, to create a beautiful, passionate,...
Barlaam and Josaphat
A Christian Tale of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A new translation of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha.
When his astrologers foretell that his son Josaphat will convert to Christianity, the pagan King Avenir confines him to a palace, allowing him to know only the pleasures of the...
Chief Culture Officer
How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Levi-Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker, missed out on the hip-hop trend. They didn’t realize that those kids in baggy jeans represented a whole new—and lucrative—market opportunity, one they could have seen coming if they had but been paying attention to the shape of American culture.
Levi...
Culturematic
How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Welcome to Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football, Burning Man, the Ford Fiesta Movement, Rube Goldberg, NFL Films, Wordle, Two and a Half Men, a 10,000-Year Symphony, and ROFLCom Memes Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas
A Culturematic...
by Andrew MacRae, Kenneth Gwin, Craig Faustus Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Twenty-three noir stories of crime and desperation. Featuring, Michael Bracken
Kenneth Gwin, Michael Chandos, Warren Bull, Peter H. Denton, JoAnne Lucas, Karen Gough, J.J. Lamb, Craig Faustus Buck, Patricia Dusenbury, Herschel Cozine, Diane A. Hadoc, Wenda Morrone, Jan Christensen, Ross Baxter,...
by John McFetridge, Eric Beckstrom, Michael Bracken
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
“[A] rich and varied anthology…” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Janet Hutchings, Chris Grabenstein, Gary Phillips, and Hilary Davidson headline a new world tour anthology of 22 stories from the heartland of America to Italy, Japan, Mexico, Cuba, England, and more.
Passport...
Gray Matters
Navigating the Space between Legalism and Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Culture is in right now for Christians. Engaging it, embracing it, consuming it, and creating it. Many (younger) evangelicals today are actively cultivating an appreciation for aspects of culture previously stigmatized within the church. Things like alcohol, Hollywood's edgier content, plays, art...
The Story Prize
15 Years of Great Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The first-ever anthology honoring the prestigious Story Prize, published in time for the award's fifteenth anniversary and featuring a remarkable list of winners including Anthony Doerr, Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Strout, George Saunders, Claire Vaye Watkins, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Elizabeth...
by Elizabeth McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
A short story by Elizabeth McCracken from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark’, a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings...
by Jan McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
According to USA Weekend, over a quarter of the adults in the U.S. have tried a low-carb diet. Many people have enjoyed lasting success. Others have felt mystified or deprived and given up!
Whether you’re a first-timer or a “try, try-againer”, this book helps you get with the low-carb...
by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Peggy McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.
The story of Saint Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus, was one of the most popular Christian tales of the Middle Ages, translated into a dozen languages,...
by Sharon Kinoshita, Peggy McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the Ysopë), and wrote the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory), based on a Latin text. The aim of...