About the BookThe Good Listener is a bold, new, fiction book about a plan among the animal leaders of the world, who meet at a barn in Los Angeles and develop a plan to end to the world-wide destruction and suffering caused by human beings: the animals have realized that the devastation is almost irreversible and that the animals have one last chance to stop the humans before a mass extinction of the animal kingdom begins.The animals agree to infect a young couple with a spec...

Experience the first Detective Dash Deacon story FREE, then buy the first five cases for over half off! On a dark September dawn, Detective Dash Deacon is called to an armed robbery case at a dilapidated motel. There is little to go on…until the robber strikes again and again. Dash begins to piece together a pattern. But the longer the case goes, the more violent the perpetrator becomes. Dash realizes that if the case isn’t solved quickly he won’t be hunting for a robber, but for a...

Get a suspense filled police procedural that will entertain you and each story takes under an hour to read. Detective Dash Deacon stories are short novellas that will sweep you into a riveting mystery. Click the buy button to start reading the Detective Dash Deacon story now!   Case of the Motel Detail On a dark September dawn, Detective Dash Deacon is called to an armed robbery case at a dilapidated motel. There is little to go on…until the ro...

A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an analysis of its evolving political economy. Drawing from New Institutional Economics, Black offers an historically informed critique of contemporary planning using the example of Japan’s historical institutions, their particular biases, and the power they have exerted over national and l...

Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature pedagogies within playwriting instruction for 'novice' writers and how they may be reimagined and reinvigorated.Through research gathered in interviews with 11 instructors, and surveying their methods, syllabi and handouts, Andrew Black interrogates key challenges within dramatic writing pedagogy: the myth that it, along with creativity, cannot be taugh...

The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, ...

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795--1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and serving as secretary of the navy during the Fillmore administration. He devoted much of his life to the American Whig party and campaigned zealously for Henry Clay during his multiple runs for president. His friends in literary circles includ...

Who Else Wants to Take Mind Blowing Pictures?* * * Limited Time Bonus Inside! * * *If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to Digital SLR photography will overwhelm you with jargon, but you and I both know that's not what photography is all about.When I first started out, I couldn't find any course or guide that actually helped me become a better photographer. Everything ...

Exposure Mastery takes a basic understanding of Digital SLR cameras and transforms it into professional-level skill. Covering the integral physics of the tool of a photographer's trade, the guide transforms pure knowledge into artistic know-how. Written by a professional photographer, Exposure Mastery introduces the amateur photographer to the most fundamental ingredient in a professional photograph: light. From here, it branches out to cover all the important aspects of photography and th...

**Set during World War II, a twelve-year-old orphan who accidentally unleashes a shadow monster onto the streets of London must team up with unlikely allies to hunt it down.“The twists and surprises just keep on coming. My kind of book!"—R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street**Surviving on the streets of World War II London alone certainly hasn’t been easy, but Nimble Nottingham has perfected the art of going it alone—and that’s just how he likes...

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first effo...

ClaireI left behind my family, my friends, and everything I've ever known for a chance at a new life–one where I wouldn't be under the strict, oppressive rules of the church. But now, I'm barely surviving in the harsh Chicago winter, living out of my car and saving every penny I can in hopes of making a better life for myself.So when a stranger saves me from certain danger and offers me a place to stay, I can't say no, even if he exemplifies everything I've...