Alan Charles: 41 books

Their nightmare has begun again. When Detectives Vivienne Sheffield and Dylan Black find themselves standing over a dead woman—snake skins in her hair, tusks glued to her severed head, and a toga wrapped around her body—the similarities to their last serial killer case are undeniable and disturbing. Once...

Just back from a trip to Italy with his boyfriend, Detective Dylan Black is immediately immersed in another unusual homicide investigation with his partner, Vivienne Sheffield. The detectives are dispatched to the local university where John Randolph, a seemingly happy, healthy, 19-year-old college...

The first victim is hung in crucifixion position—a gash in his side and a wreath on his head. Homicide detectives Dylan Black and Vivienne Sheffield are baffled by strange words written in Scrabble tiles, the dead man’s discarded glass eye, and wolf hair left at the scene. The victim’s...

In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more...

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful...

"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...

Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces. In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...

Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself.  The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition, is an extraordinarily...

With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now structure politics? Melzer, Zinman, and Weinberger have compiled essays from prominent experts to examine the politics of the past to help plot the political...

Covers recent research on coffee genetics, physiology and genetic diversity  Reviews the latest developments in breeding new varieties  Assesses advances in measuring and understanding the chemical composition, sensory and nutraceutical properties of coffee

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

“Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …” Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories...

Fyffes classic is a chronology of Western Europe from 1792 to 1814 the French Revolution to the rise and fall of Napoleon. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. A number of topical paintings by artists such as Jacques-Louis David and Vasily Vereshchagin are included, depicting events such as Napoleon crossing the Alps, Napoleon watching Moscow burn, and more.

Placé sous le double signe de la réforme et de la révolution, le numéro d’octobre-novembre entend analyser de près ces deux notions capitales de l’histoire politique française. À la différence de l’Allemagne, la France serait, dit-on, inapte à l’esprit de compromis. Qu’en est-il...