Kevin Williams: 54 books
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River...
How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own
Understanding the Impact on Americans’ Public and Private Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors...
Edgar G. Ulmer
Detour on Poverty Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors...
by Kevin Wayne Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Even before the apocalypse, nine-year-old Letitia Johnson's life had never been simple. Shuttled from foster home to foster home in the impoverished neighborhood of Mott Haven, it was all she could do to keep track of her little sister. When the apocalypse came, she tried to keep her sister's kindergarten...
Sarah on Ice
A Skater's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2002
Sarah Glasgow's figure skating career is about to take off! With an unexpected win in her local competition, she finds herself in the Finals of the California State Championships. But why won't Sarah's best friend Alexis be in competition, too? And Sarah's cute classmate, Tom Kelleher wants a ticket...
Imperative Life Questions of Truth and Consciousness
A Journey That Is Ever Changing...But Never Ending
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In each of our experiences, we come into this realm of being with a very limited remembrance or consciousness of the reality of who and what we truly are, both on an individual and collective basis. We are thrust, headlong into a world full of other beings that suffer from this same truth amnesia.
From...
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
Expert Twisted
Event-Driven and Asynchronous Programming with Python
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Explore Twisted, the Python-based event-driven networking engine, and review several of its most popular application projects. It is written by community leaders who have contributed to many of the projects covered, and share their hard-won insights and experience.
Expert Twisted starts with...
by Kevin Barraclough, Jenny du Toit, Jeremy Budd
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Some of the most important and best lessons in a doctor’s career are learnt from mistakes. However, an awareness of the common causes of medical errors and developing positive behaviours can reduce the risk of mistakes and litigation.
Written for Foundation Year doctors, trainees and general...
Removing the Stain of Racism from the Southern Baptist Convention
Diverse African American and White Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has a historical stain. The SBC once affirmed slavery and openly opposed and condemned abolitionists. Even though the convention repented of this sin publicly, a profound divide between the white majority and the black and brown minority still exists for many...
by Matt Thorne, Justine Elyot, Frances Ann Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Sex in the City is a new series from Xcite Books which features erotic stories that all have a city-based theme. Including stories by Orange and Booker nominees not always known for erotic writing, these books represent the very best of erotic literature.