S Allen: 120 books

A leading anthropologist studies the science behind "feeling at home" to show us how home made us human Home is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist...

Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the...

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade is well-founded. The experience of reading his works is demanding to an extreme. Violence and sexuality appear on almost every page, and these descriptions are interspersed with extended discourses on materialism, atheism, and crime. In this bold and rigorous...

North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose existence was for decades nothing more than a popular legend. But that rumor was finally verified in 1986 when author S. Allen Counter journeyed to northern Greenland, and met this pair of remarkable men. Counter had long been an admirer of...

These are the stories of the ballads sung in the courts of England and Ireland. Come read about the witch who will do anything for love; the noblewoman who leaves her husband and baby for a pirate; the vampire who stalks impressionable young women in the forests at night and more. Vampires, pirates, witches, ghosts, thieves, murderers all have a story to tell.

When Aine returns from being in Ireland for half the school year, all Aine wants to do is go back to being a typical tenth grader. She wants to forget all about the whole faerie/banshee thing. But, a dark faerie named Grianne has other plans for her.

Fifteen year old Molly visits her Aunt Sarah in Salem, Massachusetts. Aunt Sarah is a witch who reads Tarot cards and she predicts Molly will have a good time. But, even Aunt Sarah can't predict murder. Molly discovers a connection to the Salem Witch Trials and to the murdered victims, is Molly the next one to die?

Young adult novel about a 16 year old girl who gets a gift on her 16th birthday. But, it is not a gift she wants. From this point on, she is no longer human.

Delivers an appropriate mix of theory and applications to help readers understand the process and problems of image and signal analysis Maintaining a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the concepts, methods, and applications of signal and image data transformation, this Second Edition...

In this gustatory tour of human history, Allen suggests that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into our cultural and biological heritage. Beginning with the diets of our earliest ancestors, he explores eating’s role in our evolving brain before considering our contemporary dinner plates and the preoccupations of foodies.

In God Loves People, But He Hates Sin, Mark Allen examines the most important questions that define a spiritual life, from What is sin? to Does eternity exist? to Is there a heaven? Each essay is accompanied by Bible verses that answer the questions the author poses in each of the sections. As a witness...

This monograph provides a summary of the basic theory of branching processes for single-type and multi-type processes. Classic examples of population and epidemic models illustrate the probability of population or epidemic extinction obtained from the theory of branching processes. The first chapter...

Con millones de libros sobre emprendimientos en el mercado, ¿qué hace que Los 10 principios elementales del emprendedor ético sea diferente? La mayoría de estos libros están llenos de planes para hacerte rico y ganar dinero rápidamente. Sin embargo, este libro no expresa ninguna de esas ideas....

Fitzroy, also known as the Duke of Richmond, is the bastard son of Henry VIII of England. He is caught up in his father's politics and struggles to find his own identity in the shadow of his father's overbearing personality and his own failing health. When his father threatens the life of...