Michael Slater: 19 books

An unapologetic critique of major flaws in the American education system. David Michael Slater’s We’re Doing It Wrong is a thought-provoking dissection of the issues plaguing American public schools. Each chapter identifies a major problem in the education system, exploring its roots and...

Charles Dickens was regarded as the great proponent of hearth and home in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the breakup of his marriage that year, rumors of a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with the young actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan flourished. For the...

"Sweepstakes Cop" is based on the true story of a young boy who dreamed of finding treasure while protecting his friends from Bullies, Bigfoot & Bull Sharks. The heroic youth would grow up to become a Police Officer and end up winning a million dollars.

A spine-tingling tale of book bonding. In this wordless story, a little boy finds a book that he loves at the library. It’s a match made in kid lit heaven. But not for the book. Sometimes the little boy’s excitement gets the better of him and the book suffers from possibly too much love:...

With Bigfoot safely stashed in their basement, Maddie, Max, and Theo Mattigan are off to Las Vegas with their dad. His plan is to prove there are no aliens on the loose there.  But now that his kids know Mysterious Monsters are real, they're making plans of their own. They'll need clever...

The Mattigan kids don't believe in things that go bump in the night. After all, their dad is famous for proving such things are impossible. But, when their long-lost Grandpa Joe shows up with his Mysterious Monsters journal, begging for help, the siblings find themselves drawn into a search for Bigfoot. Along...

Maddie, Max, and Theo have come to the most haunted neighborhood in the most haunted city in America—and they're staying in the spooky Vampire House. While their father searches for evidence to prove its blood-sucker is fake, they set out on a search of their own through a city of the dead to a...

Things are getting complicated for Maddie, Max, and Theo. After all, it's not easy to hide a Sasquatch, an alien, and a vampire in your basement. So it's a relief to head out on another mission with their dad, this one to prove a small town Oregon boy couldn't really have been possessed by a ghost....

The Mysterious Monsters hiding in the Mattigan's basement have discovered they have something in common. When clues about this link point to an island in Canada, one where a werewolf has recently been sighted, Maddie, Max, and Theo convince their dad it's time for one more mission. The kids are determined...

Maddie, Max, and Theo Mattigan know everything now. They've solved the mystery of their Monsters' history, and even of their own. But Happily Ever After doesn't seem to be how their story was meant to end. There's an evil creature out there, more mysterious and monstrous than anything they could imagine. And it's coming for them. This time, the hunters have become the hunted.

In this book, Michael R. Slater provides a new assessment of pragmatist views in the philosophy of religion. Focusing on the tension between naturalist and anti-naturalist versions of pragmatism, he argues that the anti-naturalist religious views of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce...

Here at Jersey Devil Press, there are three things we look for in a story: strangeness, beauty, and poop jokes. And while this collection is admittedly a little shy on scatological humor, the 18 works collected here are easily the strangest and most beautiful things we’ve ever published. The...

This book offers a new interpretation of William James's ethical and religious thought. Michael Slater shows that James's conception of morality, or what it means to lead a moral and flourishing life, is intimately tied to his conception of religious faith, and argues that James's views on these matters...