David Earle: 8 books

Dedicated to everyone who has a dream. The Remarkable Travels of Billy Sparks is not a travelogue or even a saga of one man’s life. It is the story of a man with a dream. In the case of Billy Sparks, his is a childhood dream that evolves into being a lifelong obsession. It is a dream that never...

Roger Owen, an African American family man in the year 2011, awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to discover himself inhabiting the body of Sydney Hamilton, a Caucasian sixty-six year old Welsh Harvard Professor of History, whom he remembers nothing of, in what is now the year 2125. Roger’s...

The Calla Lilies is a narrative account of the first London bombings at the onset of the Blitz as seen through the eyes of a young child and the unusual symbolic circumstances by which she is able to find hope and optimism amid fear, confusion and loss. A symbolism that reemerges within her, later in her adult life, as she bears witness to yet another historic tragic event.

Do you keep hitting the snooze button on your emotional alarm clock hoping by ignoring the day your life will improve?Do you need a better way of gaining control over your life?Does your anger cause problems with others?Do you make bad decisions when consumed by strong emotions?Would a step-by-step,...

In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration...

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...

This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...

With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...