"The Call of a Shepherd's Song" by Michael Doyle is about faith and the essential meaning of Christmas and is dedicated to his daughters, Angelique and Sierra. Each segment compares negative traits in people with the positive qualities spoken of in the Bible; this results in a call to follow faith, love and discipline. Rather than accepting the exaggerated Christmas traditions of gluttony, envy, lust, greed, wrath and sloth, Part I calls for moderation, kindness, ...

Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler’s Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the San Francisco Bay Area store in 1955, he led the way as a pioneer in the "paperback revolution." He popularized the once radical idea of selling affordable books in an intellectually bracing coffeehouse atmosphere.Paperback selling was not the on...

AT THE HELM is both a memoir and a guidebook on how to live your life in alignment and joy. This step by step, common-sense approach makes it less daunting and helps you leverage this powerful proven system to take your life to new levels. Journey the five pillars to sustainable change and learn to fuel your mind, body, and spirit daily. It’s time to go after the freedom that comes with being in charge of your life.

Artie Shaw took his clarinet to war, where he roused the troops and paid the price. A pugnacious and strong-willed musician, Shaw abandoned civilian celebrity to lead World War II’s most colorful navy band on an island-hopping odyssey that raised military morale but brought him into dark waters. Nightmare in the Pacific: The World War II Saga of Artie Shaw and his Navy Band recounts the offbeat wartime adventures of the bandleader and the musicians he recruited for the hard-swinging outfit...

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (1947–2020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness and scab-picking wit. Provocative gems such as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dolls, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Dagon consolidated his fearsome reputation as one of the masters of the contemporary horror film, bringing an unfamiliar archness, political complexity, and critical respect to a genre so of...

The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country’s affairs is one of the most important concerns in today’s volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill’s famous 1859 essay “A Few Words on Non-Intervention” as his starting point, international relations scholar Michael W. Doyle addresses the thorny issue of when a state’s sovereignty should be respected and when it should be overridden or disregarded by other states in the name of humanitarian protection, national self-de...

"The Project Puzzle" digs into the important parts of successful project planning, execution, control, and review from project inception through project conclusion. It highlights the value of stakeholder participation, resource management, risk management, and communication techniques in accomplishing project goals.Doyle finds universal principles and best practices that drive successful project results by analyzing initiatives in a variety of sectors, including infrastructure cons...

In "Dawn of a New Era," Michael M. Doyle investigates the ramifications of globalization's demise, revealing a world full of uncertainties and potential. Doyle's comprehensive study and astute analysis shed light on the difficulties that face humanity as it enters a new era.Doyle presents a comprehensive picture of the multiple concerns altering our planet, from economic changes and cultural dispersion to environmental awakening and technological developments.He investigate...

An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia’s lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post–Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, an end to ideological strife, perhaps even the beginning of a stable...

An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia, and the US escalate perilously toward a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate the intern...

The Bonecrusher: Murder, Ash, and the Invisible Women of PeoriaBetween July 2003 and October 2004, Larry Dean Bright, known to forensic investigators and the press as "The Bonecrusher", murdered eight women in and around Peoria, Illinois, operating undetected for fourteen months in one of the most disturbing serial homicide cases in Midwestern American history. His victims were Black women from Peoria's South Side street economy, women whose disappearances were sys...

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.