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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Eternal life as a cyborg sounded good to Brandon Elliott Keagan, but when science proves the existence of an eternal afterlife, his own eternity sours. Now, BeK must find a way to wiggle out of his contract, despite the fact that neither his corporate masters, nor his programming, will allow it.Richard Alan Dickson, author of "G-Blade" and "Gateway: Left Behind," returns with a story of technology gone wrong. With an eerie premise and a plausible plot, "No Guts, No Glory" is a movi...

With MiddleBoy Blue back in action, the city needs a superhero.  Too bad none can come.  Fortunately, Joatman is on the job!  Can the dastardly villain survive the special brand of justice dispensed by a Jack of All Trades, Master at None?  Better yet, can the city?   Richard Alan Dickson, author of "Hank the Happy Snowman," returns with a wacky tale of superhero mayhem and chaotic misadventure.  With a bumbling hero turned loose upon...

Three delightful Halloween tales of ticklish tricks and tasty treats from Richard Alan Dickson and Tor Richardson. Fire up the flashlight, tuck the blanket to your chin, and take a welcome trip down memory lane. Stories include "Big Enough for Halloween," "The Menace of the Unseen Terror," and "Boo? Boo Who?"

With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, this collection serves horror that gets under your skin—and stays there.What's on the menu tonight? Something unexpected. Something forbidden.Twelve deliciously disturbing tales await your consumption in this horror anthology where dinner becomes deadly and appetite turns sinister. From Victorian steam tunnels harboring unspeakable entities to futuristic alien feasts with humanity on the...

When mistakes begin to plague the best team in the big-money game of recycling stars, Gordon Grant races to find the rivals responsible for the sabotage. The last thing he needs is to destroy a solar system with an ill-timed mistake... but the last thing his rivals need is the wrath of Gordon Grant and the White Haul Wildcats.Richard Alan Dickson, author of "G-Blade" and "Gateway: Left Behind," presents a tale of stubborn survival in a universe past its prime, where dead suns must ...

The one man who can stop Armageddon is... a boy? On a quest, the Horseman who wields Divine Retribution finds hope of man's salvation in a sassy girl with a passion for puppy-dog causes. When she runs afoul of a secret satanic cult, however, both the girl and that hope may die. Can she and the immortal teen survive, or will the world be doomed to face the reawakened fury of The Fifth Horseman?Richard Alan Dickson, author of "G-Blade" and "Gateway: Left Behind," returns with an exci...

Everyone laughed at Johnny five years ago when he told them he'd seen the aliens.  He learned his lesson.  Tonight, on the night they return, he won't go to the police.  Tonight, he'll deal with them, himself... if he can just figure out how.   Richard Alan Dickson, author of "G-Blade" and "Gateway: Left Behind," returns with another imaginative adventure of thrills and suspense.  With a stubborn hero and some colorful friends, &...