After spending over 20 years in Southern California and photographing food for over 350 restaurants, Robert and his wife moved back to their home state of Michigan and settled in Mt Pleasant. Soon, Robert became enamored with the beauty and unique architecture of Michigan's barns, traveling hundreds of miles on the back roads to capture images of different barns.

The critical story of thirteen empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today’s global civilization.For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape, and today, many contemporary conflicts resonate with issues tied to colonial conquest and the uneasy situations they produced. Empires evoke potent images: Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone, and the gallery of colonial explorers; the Spanish conquistadors’ quest for...

A fascinating portrait of LGBTQ+ figures throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as today’s varied LGBTQ+ culture.Gay Lives gives a voice to more than eighty people from all over the world and from all walks of life. It is a fascinating portrait of LGBTQ+ people throughout time, whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as today’s varied LGBTQ+ culture. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activist...

Knowledge can make you a targetCameron Hauk and Celina Maxwell have earned an easy life, filled with health, happiness, love, and family.But their past has a loose end, a loose end tied to a very important person.When U.S. Attorney General William Jenkins, the leading candidate for the presidency of the United States, decides to cut that tie, Cameron and Celina find their easy life in grave jeopardy. They must find a way to tie off that loose end… b...

The truth is just a story we tell.Searching for evidence that he can use to free his mother from prison, Cameron Hauk assumes a fake identity to infiltrate a presidential fundraiser on a luxury megayacht.While on board, he witnesses the death of the yacht's billionaire owner, a Russian arms dealer. In the wrong place at the wrong time, the yacht captain and the billionaire's wife try to pin the murder on Cameron.Cameron has only a few hours to find ...

Sometimes magic has a mind of its own.Vampires and magic users do not get along.That's putting it mildly. Over hundreds of years, they worked out a fragile peace just to keep from killing each other off. Now, they just avoid each other altogether.But when a spell goes wrong, vampire Jules and wizard Harry discover that they cannot get away from each other.Even worse, as time goes on, they realize that they don't really want to.If you...

The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With a post-1800 focus and extensive background coverage tracing the subject to the early 1700s, the book charts the rise and eclipse of European empires. Robert Aldrich and Andre...

The Isis Military Complex. A military research facility deep in the Nevada desert before it was abandoned and left to rot. In the decades since, malevolent things have grown and festered in that nightmarish place. But where there’s evil, there’s loot! It’s for that reason that Rhest, an enterprising street mercenary, has contracted some of his working partners into coming along with him on a scavenging mission to get at some of the lost technologies hidden deep within. Joining are his trus...

Provides a comprehensive modern biographical survey of homosexuality in the Western world. Among those included are:* controversial political activists - Peter Tatchell; Guy Hocquenghem; Harvey Milk* pop icons - David Bowie; k d lang; Boy George* groundbreaking artists, writers and filmmakers - Pier Paolo Pasolini; Derek Jarman; David Hockney* intellectuals who have shaped and changed the modern understanding of sexuality - Michel Foucault; Simone de Beauvoir; Alfred Kinsey* over 500 entri...

Originally published in 1989, this book analyses France’s distinctive role in international affairs and examines the characteristics of French foreign policy in the Fifth Republic. The introduction provides an overview of France’s role in international relations, then specific chapters look at topics such as French military strategy and relations with the superpowers of the late 20th Century; France and the European Community; immigrant workers and their impact on France’s international pr...

The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European overseas expansion from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Decolonisation.Studies by both well-known historians and new scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of themes ranging from colonialism in t...

This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories command attention because of their unique status, and for the ways that they occasionally beco...