Gates Gates: 538 books

Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age...

Damn, you still drive me crazy, he said as he ran his finger down her exposed arm. Her skin was just as soft as he knew it would be and he hated that he never got the chance to explore more. Now, he was determined to make up for the stupid mistakes he made years ago. Marvel had wasted so many years...

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...

Counted as one of the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lydia Knight’s life story is part of the foundation of the restored gospel.  As a broken hearted young mother, Lydia was introduced to Joseph Smith and Syndey Rigdon and the church. Renewed hope and strength...

This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia. Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare...

When Kathy Woodard meets handsome Zacchaeus Washington, a Sunday school teacher and junior deacon in her church, and falls in love, shes convinced shes found her soul mate. After two years of dating, Kathy pledges her life to him, and they are married in the family church. A couple of years...

The United States government quickly made Osama Bin Laden their most wanted criminal after he claimed responsibility for the September 11th terrorist attacks along the eastern coast. From that day forward, the portrait of the man would be synonymous with terrorism around the world. This book follows...

Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes challenges that states, districts, and other entities can expect to encounter as they...

A year has passed since the Monsterjunkie family has opened up their mysterious, macabre estate to a few trusted souls. But Crow and his sister Indigo face new challenges, including random acts of cruelty and harassment, a secret trauma that haunts Crow, and a shocking crisis with a close friend as...

The United States Liaison Office (USLO) served as the diplomatic contact for Sino-American relations between the time of the Nixon-Kissinger opening of China in 1971-1972 and the achievement of full normalization in 1979. This book presents the importance of the USLO to American foreign policy in the 1970s.

Advances in Catalysis fills the gap between the journal papers and the textbooks across the diverse areas of catalysis research. For more than 60 years Advances in Catalysis has been dedicated to recording progress in the field of catalysis and providing the scientific community with comprehensive...

What inspired and motivated me to write this sort of book? Journalism is all great, but a book is what takes it off the self, read, and learn from. Its about the pain and secrets that others need to know and what it means to be abused and that no one deserves this. Its time that I claim back my life...

So many people have been hurt within some churches today and unfortunately, a lot of the hurt has come from the leaders in these churches. The Pastors, Elders, Bishops, whatever their title may be, seem to have lost their way, thus leading those who follow them astray. This book has been written to...