Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, explorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, officer, hunter, and rancher. In The Life of Kit Carson, Alan E. Grey invites young readers to join Kit as he strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen to find adventure along the beaver streams; ride with him and John Fremont as they explore the untamed West, taking cover as Kit trades gunfire in the Mexican-American War; and witness h...

The past comes back to haunt our rakish captain in this swashbuckling historical naval adventureAlan Lewrie is still captain of the HMS Proteus, one of the British Navy's newest frigates. But Lewrie's amorous escapade comes back to haunt him when an unidentified individual writes to his wife Caroline, outlining some of the finer points in his illustrious past.But Lewrie already has his hands full as he and Proteus are as...

An eighteenth-century Royal Navy captain sails between warring empires and into a revolution in "one of the author's best" naval adventures ( Bowsprit ).In Sea of Grey, Captain Alan Lewrie's HMS Proteus sets sail for the French colony of Saint Domingue, where a brutal slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture threatens to derail a failing British intervention. Amidst the chaos and bloodshed, Lewrie mus...

Alan Stacey was a promising English driver for an upstart Team Lotus headed by manager and owner Colin Chapman. A few years into the 1960s Team Lotus would compete as an equal with the great factory cars fielded by Ferrari and Porsche. Stacey landed a Formula One ride after winning events such as the Goodwood-Whitsun meeting of June 1957. He won the 1100 cc race there driving a Lotus Eleven. Stacey also competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1957 and 1958 in a 750 cc Lotus.

This volume graphically demonstrates how differences in social class affect personality. It does so by presenting research in class character covering a broad range of phenomena in the area shared by psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and anthropology. Concerned with key issues of substance and method in this area, the essays in Class and Personality in Society provide firsthand experience in the divergent ways in which specialists view and explore the relationship between personality and ...

Clarence is a successful lawyer in a big city whose law firm is under investigation by the FBI for embezzlement, and Clarence goes missing. Clarence finds himself stuck in an alternate reality surrounded by mysterious people who ask him strange questions. He must examine his understanding of reality if he hopes to escape. Meanwhile, outside in the real world, the Antichrist is coming to power. Unbeknownst to Clarence, he is the only one who knows how to stop the Antichrist. Clarence's ex-w...

For Cyd Euripides, parking cars for Venusian goddesses on Atlantis might not be the most challenging work, but the former serf enjoys the career change.  Fresh air, sunshine, an occasional flight through the air after being swatted by a displeased goddess... life is good.  But when the other serfs drag Cyd into a crazy escape plan, the doomed island may never be the same again.   Richard Alan Dickson, author of "Love, Venusian Style," returns with a...

When fruit is stolen from his golden tree, the King is furious! Prince Jack must locate the culprit, but his simple quest to find the thief soon turns into a thrilling tale of love, friendship and betrayal . . .This story is a magic bean. It may not look much like a bean, but I can promise you that it is. For if you plant it in a young mind, it will grow into a love of story and reading. These beans are favourite fairytales and legends that will delight, thrill and thoroug...

Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies. With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care tends to posit it as a sort of state of permanent emergency, like the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. To move beyond...

As the single parent of two daughters life was tough for Benjamin. As a black detective on the streets of London, life was tougher still. Add to this a string of unsolved murders, a drug trafficking problem and allegations of bribery and corruption and life becomes unbearable.Psychopath of schizophrenic? Either way Toby had problems. A disastrous marriage behind her, bored and disillusioned with life, Jess was heading nowhere when she met Toby. And so it was they took the road toget...

You know it's a bad day when you're wearing bull's-eye red, but lunar target drones don't have a choice. It's an occupational hazard. For one target drone with secret dreams of a different career, a change of color may be the ultimate reward... but only if he can figure out how to win.Richard Alan Dickson, author of "G-Blade" and "Gateway: Left Behind," presents a tale of fast action and fun adventure set on the surface of the moon. With a colorful cast and clever twists and turns,...

In "Man, Woman and Marriage", noted experts discuss such subjects as the ways in which people choose their mates, how the family social system can entrap its members in neurotic "games," and the complex nature of marital love. Each of the essays has been significant in major controversies on family research and represents a progressive exploration of the "psychosocial" aspects of marriage and family life in the United States.Alan L. Grey's penetrating Introduction traces the history of fam...