Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries is designed for courses on social deviance that take a strong sociological perspective. The book draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social ...

Life is not preprogrammed. Each day, we are faced with choices that guide us in one direction or the other. As a result, we are all fully capable of choosing the path we desire. In Recipes to Drive Your Life, Ed Anderson provides the principles, tools, and concepts to help others find a more meaningful life filled with peace, purpose, and happiness. Anderson relies on his personal and professional experiences to share a proven process and insights that will clarify thinking, answer questio...

This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark the journal’s thirty-fifth anniversary, the issue also features a retrospective sampling of articles that illustrate the evolution of the profession and of the professional issues...

Book One in the Mages of Martir seriesThirty-five-year-old Darek Takren always did his best to keep up with the demands of the prestigious North Academy, a magical school where only those with the drive to succeed are allowed to learn. Having lived in the school for his whole life, Darek Takren sees North Academy as his home, a sanctuary safe from the troubles that plague the outside world.But when his best friend is injured in an unexpected attack on the s...

Ever since a drunken one-night stand gone wrong, single mother Meredith Banks can't seem to shake Christian Morgan, the hypnotically attractive and dangerously obsessive intern from her office. It started with the late night phone calls, the hang-ups, the unwanted visits to her row home in Detroit. Now her son Troy, all that matters in her world, has gone missing after school.Meredith knows Christian is behind her son's disappearance, but the cops won't help without evidence. To fi...

By a USA Today Bestselling Author. After decades of clandestine government operations, James "Beck" Becker and his wife Elizabeth return to Beck's childhood home town to enjoy a settled retirement in the small Mississippi river community of Red Wing, Minnesota. But "settled" is a relative term and no matter where Beck goes, intrigue follows. When Minneapolis computer genius, Katherine Whitson, disappears under peculiar circumstances...

A single mom and her teenage daughter move next to a spooky old house, and the small-town sheriff comes to their aid.THE GHOST NEXT DOORWhen destiny takes a hand...You've got to hold on tight.When single mom Elizabeth Jennings gets sent to a new town to revamp its weekly paper, she resists. Her daughter Claire is just fifteen, and has recently started high school. But Elizabeth’s boss insists, so the two pack up and move to...

Death Comes To Us AllIt is sixty years since a great war made the Earth uninhabitable. The few survivors took shelter within towered cities. They, and now their descendants, have only one goal: to construct colony ships so that they can leave the ruined planet in the hope of establishing a settlement on Mars.The first of those ships is nearing completion. If the species is to survive, then nothing can interfere with this last great effort. But the city is n...

A new Dragon has come to protect Isabelle's village. However, the dragon has one demand that must be met: a wife. A young virgin, dressed for a wedding.Isabelle has been chosen to become the Dragon's wife. She has no idea what to expect when, one dark autumn day, the Dragon comes to take her.18+! Contains graphic sex scenes.

Three short stories inspired by Dante’s Inferno, linked by a book of human skin passed down through generations.Sins of the FleshWhen the tortured and mutilated corpse of a wealthy author is discovered, the police officer sent to investigate finds a curious diary amongst the occult objects at the scene. Will he uncover the author’s secret at the ruined chapel, and is he willing to pay the price that it demands?Sins of Treachery...

When monsters appear on Earth, Maggie MacKay is on the job. No one is better at hauling the creepy crawlies back where they belong. No one, that is, except Maggie's dad, who disappeared in the middle of an assignment without a trace.Now, an elf named Killian has shown up with a gig. Seems Maggie's uncle teamed up with the forces of dark to turn Earth into a vampire convenience store, serving bottomless refills on humans.The only hope for survival lies in tracking down two ma...