Chris M : 138 books

Sports are an integral part of American society. Millions of dollars are spent every year on professional, collegiate, and youth athletics, and participation in and viewing of these sports both alter and reflect how one perceives the world. Beamon and Messer deftly explore sports as a social construction,...

This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they...

Glory Daze transports the reader to a small town situated amongst cornfields of Indiana and the late 1960s. Fun could be had on the baseball diamonds known as sandlots. Trouble could also be found without much effort. This book relates some of the ups and downs of a game that often has more downs...

Homeostasis and Toxicology of Essential Metals synthesizes the explosion of new information on the molecular, cellular, and organismal handling of metals in fish in the past 15 years. These elements are no longer viewed by fish physiologists as "heavy metals" that kill fish by suffocation, but rather...

Homeostasis and Toxicology of Non-Essential Metals synthesizes the explosion of new information on the molecular, cellular, and organismal handling of metals in fish in the past 15 years. These elements are no longer viewed by fish physiologists as "heavy metals" that kill fish by suffocation, but...

Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum...

This is a story that will break the hearts of millions. Boy meets girl, falls in love, and lives happily ever after...not! Th is story is full of betrayal, lies, revenge, and even death. Just how far will a person go to get what they want? By the end of the story, you make the choice. Was it for sex,...

Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined. Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this third collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...

Cold bottle of beer, loyal dog at his feet, and the bedroom window cracked just enough to aim the barrel of his hunting rifle toward the Mexican border...just in case, ya know? Unrepentantly racist and sly as a fox, ol’ Duragard is the prickliest bastard around. But as the sun sets on Sugar...

Co-written by one of the country's most prominent internists, Dr. Henry "Harry" Lodge, and his star patient, the 73-year-old Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. This is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. Using...

"Schicksal sind die Karten, die das Leben uns in die Hand legt. Geschick ist, was wir aus diesen Karten machen." Unter diesem Motto erreichten eines kalten Wintertages die 22 Karten der großen Arkana 22 Autoren, die sich der Herausforderung gestellt hatten, zu jener einen Karte eine Geschichte zu schreiben....

“[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...

When we are opened to recognizing the full truth of who we are, there is an all-encompassing sense of awe and gratitude. From this realization, all sense of lack and limitation slip away, and we are introduced to an internal, unconditional presence and spaciousness. Even though these glimpses of the...

A Multi-Author Anthology of Short Stories! Nineteen stories and hundreds of pages of apocalyptic fiction for a bargain price. This is Volume 6. Look for other books in series for more great reading! When the world falls apart, when civilization collapses, when life as we know it ends, our greatest...