Doing Academic Research is an accessible guide to research focusing on the social sciences, humanities, and business. It approaches research as a process, steering readers through the beginnings of topic choice through choosing methods, samples, and then sharing their results.The book guides readers through six methods in detail (interviews, focus groups, surveys, textual analysis, content analysis, and critical discourse analysis), providing enough information to successf...

Contemporary American poetry by Gary Beck, The Eloquence of Distance looks at some of the anomalies in this strange life

A bright, young Haitian, ardent for education, goes to college in the United States and forms the values that will help him serve his troubled country. He returns after the death of his father in the great earthquake of 2010 and commits himself to helping his suffering village. He persuades the elders to allow him, and a select few, to commit piracy on the rich, like the Somalis, to feed the village.After adventures and success on the high seas, their growing wealth is noticed and ...

Marine Major Sam Hanson refuses a presidential order to surrender his battalion to be butchered by ISIS when they overrun the Mid-East. He is reduced in rank and transferred to a company of Marines that provides security to the hospital complex in New York City where he becomes friends with Dr. Carver.A deadly terrorist attack kills Hanson's son and Carver's daughter. They make a plan to identify the terrorist cell and target a safe house in Brooklyn. There they discover nuclear ma...

Double Envelopment is a poetry collection committed to exploring social, political and economic issues, with particular concern for my divided country. We are not the Koreas and hopefully will not be, but I worry about the troubles that beset so many Americans. I also occasionally indulge in artistic expression, just to present alternatives to those who don't appreciate doses of reality.

"Her" is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of "Her."

In 1282, David and his sister Anna crashed through time to save the life of their father, the last Prince of Wales. Thirteen years later, David is a grown man—husband, father, and High King of Britain. He is also the Duke of Aquitaine, a fact which King Philip of France appears to resent.So when Philip summons David to Paris to bend the knee for the right to remain Aquitaine’s duke, David is the first to suspect treachery. And when he learns Philip is taking advice from Guillaume d...

When you need a nudge to get your creative juices flowing, writing prompts are the solution. Whether you are tired of staring at a blank page or are looking for something different to write about, the following 300 prompts will get you going.

Life can be filled with wonderful moments. However, it can also have disappointments. This is only natural but when these disappointments are not properly dealt with, they can lead to bitterness and regret.From Bitterness to Happiness: A Quick Guide to Dealing With Life's Disappointments can help you deal with these feelings of disappointment and give you tips on how to overcome them and become a more positive person.

Set in the late 1700s, a tale of magic and fate, triumph and heartbreak, and the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters unfolds in this spellbinding novel from a master storyteller.Brittany, 1762There hasn’t been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations. According to the elders, that line is dead, leaving the clan vulnerable to the whims of superstitious villagers and the prejudices of fearmongering bishops.Ursule Orchière ha...

Volume 13 in the Swenson Award Series, Tomorrow's Living Room offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's world reflect our own (they may in fact be universal), but we're considering them through completely new terms of engagement.Selected by, and with a foreword by, Billy Collins....

Book #19 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must contend with France's infamous Cardinal Richilieu, who is determined to keep his grip on power no matter what history says.France, 1636 . . . It has been twenty years since King Louis took Aña Maria Mauricia, daughter of Spain's King Philip III, as his wife, and their u...