Eight short stories of page-turning, can't-put-it-down suspense. Featuring... Uri's Full-Bodied Wine Every sip is to die for. A tale of murder and intrigue in the heart of Canada's wine country, with a family secret that must never be divulged. The Secret of the Undead Room A corrupt Hollywood director stages a Zombie festival in Vancouver's historic Sylvia Hotel, setting the scene for a crack detective faced with an unsolvable murder mystery. The Last Requiem A tragic romance, a stirring ...

This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to th...

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not tho...

Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a w...

The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution....

A killer wants her dead. Her ex-husband wants her alive. Neither is backing down.FBI agent Shelby Claiborne was closing in on a serial killer when a bullet left her in a coma. Now she’s almost recovered—but the memories of that day, and the clue that put her in the killer’s sights, are still locked in her mind. The only man who might have the answers? The sexy, infuriating ex-husband she swore she’d never see again.Former Navy SEAL Colton Bells nev...

Book Four in KJ's Novella Series--Bikers Of The Rio GrandeBearcatI'm the club enforcer, yeah that means I'm big and I'm mean and I can fight. Nobody usually messes with me, cuz they know I can beat them down.But trouble comes to the club in the guise of a woman with a secret. A secret she doesn't want to share. The moment I see her is the moment I know she's meant to belong to me. I never believed in the ideal of one man to one woman but with her, I...

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From'the preeminent historian of black popular cultu...

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their politi...

A Pulitzer Prize winner's "immensely readable" history of the United States from FDR's election to the final days of the Cold War ( Publishers Weekly).The Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world's sole superpower. Here is a young democracy transformed by the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, the rapid pace of technological change, and the distinct ...

The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada itself underwent the transformative experience of separating itself from ...