Tompkins: 102 books

Jason is pursued by a mysterious man dressed in black who hands him a slip of paper and leaves without a word. What is written on that paper changes Jason’s life forever and plunges him on a journey to another dimension where strange creatures capture and imprison him. Surrounded by surreal monsters...

Something evil has come to Bossier City to feast. It stalks an upscale apartment complex in search of its next victims. Can Detective Kevin Watts stop the wrath of Fresinnius, and save his own soul from damnation?

Fascinating, surprising, and compelling, A Little Book of Spirit Stories is a collection of first hand encounters with the paranormal. With insight and humor, Victoria Marina-Tompkins shares her experiences with ghostly apparitions, playful spirits, and voices outside the range of every day perceptions,...

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters,...

N-AWE, takes you on a journey of life, love, travel, dreams, and hope through Dr. Rosalind Y. Lewis Tompkins original poetry. She shares her inspiration for writing each of the poems included in the book and she also shares how her ministry of poetry has made a powerful impact around the world. If...

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing contemporary...

The time-worn steps of the one-room schoolhouse, the echo of the school's bell calling pupils to their lessons, the dusty chalkboard brushed clean each afternoon after lessons had ended for the day, the little pot-bellied stove with its neatly-stacked wood, the water pail with its single metal dipper,...

SPIRITUAL TURNING POINTS offers a groundbreaking look at the Seven Life Transitions of Birth, the Terrible Twos, Adolescence, Mid-life Crisis, Life Review, Dying, and Death through the lens of Shamanism, Astrology, and the Michael Teachings. It represents the culmination of twenty years of client...

In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challenges comfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."

This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World...

For social worker Helen, Jake's struggle to rescue injured seven-year-old Sam off the sheer face of Black Mountain goes beyond all measure, moving her heart as no other case ever has. When backpacker Jake ventures out on a weekend wilderness hike into the southern Sierra, he never expects to...

On March 9, 1916 the border town of Columbus, New Mexico was attacked by forces under the command of the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. Eighteen Americans were killed and a number of buildings were burned to the ground before the U.S. Cavalry, inflicting heavy losses, drove Villa and his mounted...

New York City, the late 1990s. Dennis Donnelley is a bachelor and a solitary soul in his early thirties who works in the downtown financial district but isn’t sure where he fits into the city’s new anything-goes money culture. Increasingly haunted by the sense that life is passing him by, Dennis...

Bij een orka denkt u waarschijnlijk aan een gevaarlijke killer, maar toch laten deze slimme dolfijnen zich maar wat graag allerlei kunstjes aanleren. Hoe doe je dat, vraagt manager Wes Kingsley zich af, laat je ze eerst verhongeren en dan reiken naar een visje? In gesprek met een orkatrainer leert...