Wayne: 2868 books
Vancouver Blue
A Life Against Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Wayne Cope has TV to blame for starting him on his long career as an officer of the Vancouver Police Department. He grew up watching gunslingers like James Arness and Richard Boone, inspiring him to join up even before he finished college-and his real-life working career has turned out to be more...
Georgia Vineyards and Wineries
A Historical Guide to Modern Georgia Wines 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Georgia Vineyards and Wineries is a historical guide to modern Georgia wines in 2016.
Georgia is the largest muscadine grape–producing state in the world. These native grapes were observed by early explores growing in the trees throughout Georgia and the South in the 1500s, but more likely had adapted...
A Lawless Breed
John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a 4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until...
Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators Volume One
Star, Planet, Moon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
This concise first volume of Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators provides straightforward guidance on how to model the astronomical elements of an Earth-like planet for your storyworld setting.
Author and storyworld creator Matthew Wayne Selznick (The Charters Duology --...
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II
More Rock ¿n¿ Roll Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?” to a list of all song titles containing the word “werewolf,” Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources continues where 1995’s Volume I left off. Using references and illustrations drawn from contemporary...
Rock Music in American Popular Culture
Rock 'n' Roll Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items...
by Wayne Robins
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The birth of rock ‘n’ roll signaled the blossoming of a new teenage culture, dividing generations and introducing a new attitude of rebellion and independence. From Chuck Berry to the Beatles, from punk rock to hip hop, rock ‘n’ roll has continuously transformed alongside or in reaction to...
The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
A History and Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in...
by Sally Harrison-Pepper, Nyle Monday, Lewis Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
In contrast to the overabundance of writings about martial arts that are often promotional and misinformative, there are rare works by scholars that are praiseworthy for their sincere, unbiased approach to writing. This is the very definition of “scholarly.” This two-volume...
Courtroom, Cartridges, and Campfires
Lawyering on the Last Frontier--Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Wayne Anthony Ross arrived in Alaska in the late 1960s with a law degree, a new wife, and no job. Courtrooms, Cartridges, and Campfires is about the colorful characters he met, and the adventures he had in his first decade in the Last Frontier. These include curmudgeon judges, colorful attorneys, cantankerous...
by Wayne Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Have you ever wondered how Christmas carols became popular...or indeed the Christmas Tree?
'Christmas Ideas' brings you the background to many of the traditions we see today, which will inspire you to rejoice in style.
Christmas is about celebrating joy with family, spending time together,...
A Spy's Diary of World War II
Inside the OSS with an American Agent in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Here is the wartime diary of Wayne Nelson, an OSS officer who served in North Africa and Europe during World War II. A prewar colleague of Allen Dulles, Nelson joined an infant OSS after failing to join the Navy because of a vision disability, and he went on to serve in North Africa, Sicily, Sardinia,...
by Gera-Lind Kolanik, Wayne Klatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
On the night of April 7, 1990, newlyweds Nancy and Richard Langert were brutally shot in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. There were no leads. Nothing was stolen. The only clue was an illegible message Nancy left behind, written in her own blood. It was a crime that shocked the community...
Wandering Souls
Journeys With the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedly took a diary-filled with beautiful line drawings-from the body of the dead soldier, which he subsequently sent to his mother for safekeeping. Thirty-five...