Joseph R Miller: 15 books

Pathogen  begins as a medical investigation into an unreported toxin that is causing death among children.  A Pathologist gathers case studies and tries to correlate the data in an attempt to find a vector: mice, berries, mosquitoes, etc. that could be infecting a wide disparity of children over different parts of the Country. One adult female has died the same distinctive death.

These essays are gleaned from articles published in Wichita Falls Medicine, the Wichita Falls Times Record News, Private Practice, and one from the unlikely pages of the Archives of Internal Medicine.  I threw out some I thought were awful.  Other than that exercise in self-protection, they flew from the computer in no particular order.  I chose them if they made me smile.

The men and women of Tucker, Texas are split on the need for new library, which the women want,  or a gymnasium and weight room for the high school's sporting teams, which all the men support.  Ms Maybelle, the owner of the Paris Salon, takes a page from Lysistrata, and suggests that the ladies of the town withhold their sexual favors unless the men change and vote a library.

Bubba's Rules for Country Living comes from my own experience at the country Store at Lake Kickapoo in Northern Archer County in North Texas.  I moved to a small place at the Lake when disability forced me away from medical practice.  A wonderful life awaited me.  I was born in Ohio and raised all over the Midwest, but had the lasting good fortune to move to Texas and to marry South.

In the 1930's, H.L. Mencken said of the people who fled the dust bowl, "They are simply, by God's inscrutable will, inferior men, and inferior they will remain until by a stupendous miracle, He gives them equality among his angels."  This is the story of one such "inferior" man.  We first meet Jared as a child, walking away from the Kansas Dustbowl with his mother.

History is filled with wars. We dream the victories and defeats, great and small, and note how they have shaped our world. Wars and social movements have made our civilization as we know it. Man’s religion and past wars gives us an understanding of the present. In 1075, a militia loyal to the crown...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores...

Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales. A ghostly voice on a trucker’s CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo...

Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...

In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual...

This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...