W Parker: 52 books

***Battle for the Big Sky ***delves into one of the few competitive races of the 2012 election: the US Senate campaign in Montana. Author David C.W. Parker was granted exceptional access by both candidates over the 21 months preceding the election, allowing him to tell the story of the race in rare...

Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.   Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...

Six murders, child porn, horse racing, drug smuggling, beautiful women, crooked police, crooked lawyers; it's all in a days work for Marvin Davis. When a young boy is gruesomely murdered in an apparent gang killing Marvin Davis is hired by the boy's family to clear his name. That is the starting...

Cocaine, murder and love. What else would you expect on a summer day? It is July in Dallas and hot. Then the fat man is murdered and everything gets hotter. Private detective Marv Davis is hired for an easy job, recover some stolen items. That "easy job" quickly leads him into in...

Part 1 - (1965-1974) Drugs, Sex and Violence. "Danny was stoned, wired and bored. It was nearly midnight. He was fully dressed and standing in the middle of his room trying to decide what to do." Part 2 - (1972-1974) A man wants to be remembered. Fred shuffles his feet, kicking clothes...

Marvin Davis is hired as 'muscle' in a blackmail payoff. The following day his client and the client's brother are murdered. Before Marv can do anything about the murders his girlfriend, Shelia Goodwin, is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel boss and Marv is launched into full bore vigilante mode. Tearing...

Murder and suicide, rape and incest; welcome to the vagarities of The Krew. Bill Kensett wants to solo sail around the world. He finds the boat of his dreams, a 56 foot ketch named The Krew. Falling in love with the beautiful ghost that haunts the boat he sets sail and learns the horrific stories of the rest of The Krew.

Mary and Al Martin’s marriage is failing. Mary is a successful lawyer; she is looking outside the marriage for her answers. Al, a not so successful graphic designer, is looking in the past; searching for his personal validation. And then the storm arrives. Long before the disaster of Katrina...

VANISHING TRICK How smart is too smart? In the near future a device to make people smarter is stolen from its inventor, a mathematician called B. He realizes there is a plot to take over the US Government using the device. The military wants to use it to create a junta. Disaffected members of the...

Moscows ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran underwent dramatic fluctuations following Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinis triumphant return to Tehran in 1979. After a prolonged implosion, they fitfully expanded, shaped not only by the rush of current events but by centuries of ingrained practices and prejudices....

Conquer: The Story of Ninth Army recounts in great and glorious detail the U.S. Ninth army as it campaigned against Nazi Germany in Europe during World War II. The Ninth Army reached France in September 1944 in time to play a leading role in the reduction of Brest and Brittany; further battles awaited...

This seminal history of an English East Midland family takes us by generations from a 1939 country marriage back to 1042 Normandy, 1610 Virginia, the 1854 Sevastopol Siege, 1861 Sitapur during the Siege of Lucknow and to Passchendaele. It follows 19th and 20th century emigrations into Michigan, New Zealand...

The story of a near shipwreck and salvation of a small sloop off the coast of Australia in 1853. Good description of native customs. Illustrated.

With a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the topic, Social Marketing and Behaviour Change features a review and analysis of the most validated models of behaviour change, using case studies to illustrate these models in practice. Divided into nine sections, the authors and contributors of this unique...