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The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some especially interesting forms of racial and ethnic intersection, influenced by the relatively small number of blacks (especially in certain counties), the...

When pharmaceutical scientist David R. Hamilton, Ph.D., observed the results of tests on new drugs, he noticed that patients receiving control placebo pills reported the same level of improvement as those receiving the actual drug. Seeing this result repeat itself time and time again, he became fascinated...

*Putting Image Repair to the Test:*Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory examines content analytic, attitudinal, and behavioral claims to advance current assertions made about image repair discourse, its effects, and the surrounding discourse. The contributors provide empirical data...

A young rape victim gets even with her father. In the interim this young victim decides to start a revenge for hire business that quickly gains support throughout the country. The web site Baby Girl dot Com soon becomes the go to site for young women and even men who are victims and have no where...

Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six...

Operation Overlord, the allied invasion of Normandy, was a way to cover up our mission, Operation Hansel, and Gretel. The taking of just one or two of Hitler’s relatives for the whole world to see may bring the madman down. Our mission intended to kidnap just one or two of Adolf Hitler’s relatives...

A collection of some of the world's most beloved pirate stories with an active table of contents.Works include:"Black Bartlemy's Treasure" by Jeffery Farnol"The Black Buccaneer" by Stephen W. Meader "Blackbeard" by Benjamin Barker"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" Ralph D. Paine"Captain Blood" by Rafael...

How does the government decide what’s a problem and what isn’t? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the “paradox of search.” If policy makers don’t look for problems, they won’t find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry...

A story from the Middleton saga. Daniel is the younger brother of Frank, who after graduating from high school travels out west to be with his brother Frank. But is he really ready for the Wild West where a Colt is much better than words? Follow Daniel’s journey and his story in the Wild West as each day maybe his last, or will he learn what it takes to survive.

I know one thing for sure, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, most people are Bible illiterate. People forget that Luke and Mark were not apostles or eyewitnesses to Jesus. The Bible you read, and what you may have been taught in church, may not be the facts. To really understand the Bible,...

Supernova Fugue —————————— Devon Hawkins expected the stellar cartography mission to be just another job.  Now he’s in a fight for his life against one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and his fate may unlock a mystery that has plagued mankind for centuries....

Welcome to the real and imagined worlds of D. R. Belz, where you’ll find: a practicing white witch kindergarten teacher whose practical joke brings a strange consequence; a young priest-in-training who encounters a literal femme fatale; a homeless man who finds a baby in a trash bin on Christmas...

Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs--and dozens of other short-term "solutions"--are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost? In...

Based on some true events and some real people, this is my fictional interview with Jonathan Byrd Madison, who is one hundred and eleven years old. Jonathan, was born in February of 1900, and grew up in the old south, Dixie, in Bluffton, South Carolina. When white was white, and black was black. Jonathan...