Michael Foster: 21 books

“I see the faces of war every night in my nightmares. I see the faces of the soldiers and the story that they want to tell.” --Michael Foster, Specialist, Mortuary Affairs Faces of War: Iraq, the Road to Heaven or Hell is a story of a small team of eight soldiers who work in Mortuary Affairs...

The definitive biography of a trailblazing actress who entertained—and shocked—the nation and the world Marilyn Monroe might never have become the legend she did without America’s original tragic starlet: actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–68). In a century remembered for Victorian...

�This thoughtful and original study throws important critical light on the dominant orthodoxies about sustainable development, and suggests a radically new direction. Foster argues compellingly that present approaches embody floating standards and bad faith, trapping societies into inaction. I suspect...

It has been 60 years since the technological singularity. Massive AI's control and manage the population of the Solar System. From asteroid mining, simulation centers on Mars, and observation stations deep in the Ort Cloud, modified humans have spread throughout the system. The shipbuilding centers...

This book is volume two in the Doorways series. Rigil Kent follows the events of Origins and the evolutionary reset. Survivors, clinging to life, try to rebuild under the seemingly omniscient gaze of an alien enemy. A single outpost prepares to launch a counterattack armed only with their intellect...

The Marathon is undoubtedly the majestic and attar ice. Millions of people all over the globe wish to participate in these splendid races.  This book serves as a guide for all those readers who are enthusiastic towards getting the training of running and want to be a prominent participant of Marathons and...

Newspaper reporter Bill Razer arrives very early at the state Capitol on a below-zero winter morning. A few minutes later, he is shot dead while preparing to write a scathing column aimed at hapless Governor Phillip Newman and legislative leaders. When no helpful clues surface, Sheriff Frank Himberger...

A primer on how the church determines nullity of marriage and the mechanics of canon law process.

In the wilds of Idaho, an adventurous young girl stumbles into an alternate dimension that’s plagued by a tyrannical creature and faces a life-threatening curse as she struggles to find courage, strength and her way home. The environmental elements of the story are especially relevant now, as is...

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...

Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers....

It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the...