T Shannon: 15 books

T.R. Shannon joined the San Jose California Highway Patrol in July 1966, and transferred to the San Andreas Area CHP office two years later, where hed stay for the next twenty-one years. During that time, he drove about 750,000 miles on state highways and county roads, patrolling the most varied climate...

During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold...

Fifteen bite-sized stories, offering a sampler platter of fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal horror. Within these pages, you’ll find flower fairies, alien brothels, were-bears, and sentient houses. Step inside a museum where all the displays are haunted, follow a siren into the underworld...

Dresden got to his feet, stretched his arms and legs, and cracked neck and knuckles both. He looked to his family with eyes filled with dreadful finality, devoid of all compassion, peace already made with the possibility he might not see them again. “Dresden?” Kethis asked in uncertainty, Bindie...

We're all grown up right? Or are we? Do things in the night still make you wanna cry to Mama? Well you can't anymore, she's not around. Time to face your demons, man or woman. Mama ain't here, but all she ever wanted was to hear your laughter, and to know you're safe. You're not safe. It's just you...

Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...

How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...

Assesses latest research on how grasslands function Surveys best practice in sustainable grassland management Considers wider aspects of sustainability such as ecosystem services and biodiversity

The Darkness behind Me pursues Jack Bishop, a young professional consumed with the notion that his life could be better. From a broken home, hes been a scholarship athlete with high marks thrust into a high-profile job. His marriage isnt enough for him, and his involvement with a beautiful assistant...

This is an early 20th century work written in America that means to help parents teach young adults about how to navigate sex and growing up. From the preface: “The purpose of this book is not only to enable parents, teachers and all matured people, to inform themselves more fully concerning...

Leading therapists and researchers have come to understand that many psychological disorders share common features and respond to common therapeutic treatments. This deepened understanding of the nature of psychological disorders, their causes, and their symptoms has led to the development of new,...

Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences. This research continues to lend support for a unified transdiagnostic approach to treatment of these disorders that considers their commonalities and is applicable to a range of emotional...

Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people? Whiteness at the Table examines whiteness...