Azure: 22 books

Mental health is a hot topic, including treatment for mental illness. In this essay, I approach antidepressants in a sociological fashion. The dimensions I consider include: general information, the statistics of antidepressant usage, how antidepressants relate to the medical model, the efficacy of antidepressants, and how antidepressants can be understood through sociological frameworks.

Social justice is one of the most widely used terms in modern times, yet it’s a difficult term to define. The Christian Bible repeats certain words that seem to relate to social justice, intuitively speaking; words such as poor, money, captivity, and sick. I contend that social justice is fundamental to the Christian faith, as made evident through the lives of people like Bonhoeffer, etc.

Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found...

Meeting his new wife's family is one thing. Winning over the queen of a land where men have no legal standing whatsoever increases the challenge. Can he make a place in a culture that doesn't even have a word for 'husband'?

Fire and Ice. Oil and Water. Day and Night. Sword and Staff—embodied by the King's Master Swordsman and the High Sorceress to the King. Husband and Wife. Can the couple rescue the kidnapped princess and prince without their clashing abilities dooming the mission?

Rainbow tribes, their physical coloring reflecting they myriad hues and shades of the natural world surrounding them. But one tribe fears and hates magic, not believing it sustains their world. That rogue tribe fights to eliminate all enchantment, no matter what the cost.

Ancient Amazons, and pirates as well! Theolonia and her crew live outside all the laws of the land.

Wizard and warrior. No respect for each other and certainly no common ground. Except for the same parents. Then a miscast spell forces the pair to work together to rescue a beloved royal tiger.

The two strangers claim to be looking for a goldsmith. What they want is someone to murder and blame for the theft they committed.

Pirates! Buccanneers! Corsairs! Meet the women who throughout history ignored laws and defied convention.  Dashing dames, pirates all, from ancient Amazons to spacefaring scalawags.  Span the ages in this thrilling, action-packed anthology.

When the sultan is cheated in a business deal, he's not about to let the thievery stand. Scheherazade, the most trusted captain in the fleet, goes in pursuit to recover the sultan's pilfered gold. She takes along some most unusual help.

Sword and Staff Fire and Ice. Oil and Water. Day and Night. Sword and Staff—embodied by the King's Master Swordsman and the High Sorceress to the King. Husband and Wife. Can the couple rescue the kidnapped princess and prince without their disparate abilities dooming the mission? A Tiger's...

Enemies and rivals surrounded the empress always. Countless people covet her power and envy the realm she built and must constantly defend. Now she suspects her beloved consort wants to betray her.

Running Wolf loves his life sailing the high seas, always finding new and exotic cultures—even discovering one that solves even the slightest conflict by hand-to-hand combat. Will the warrior princess of the realm entice him into giving up his wandering ways?