Collected here are correspondence, papers, and legal documents--including selected judicial opinions--of American jurist John Marshall. Revolutionary officer, congressman, and secretary of state before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Marshall served as the Court's fourth Chief Justice. In this capacity, he helped define the role of the Court ...
Collected here are correspondence, papers, and legal documents--including selected judicial opinions--of American jurist John Marshall. Revolutionary officer, congressman, and secretary of state before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Marshall served as the Court's fourth Chief Justice. In this capacity, he helped define the role of the Court ...
Criminology is in a period of much theoretical ferment. Older theories have been revitalized, and newer theories have been set forth. The very richness of our thinking about crime, however, leads to questions about the relative merits of these competing paradigms. Accordingly, in this volume advocates of prominent theories are asked to "take stock ...
On Thanksgiving Day 1892, a beautiful young woman appeared mysteriously at the most exclusive resort in Southern California--the new Hotel del Coronado. There was something dark and ominous about her from the very beginning. She rented a room, and waited for an even more mysterious man who never did show up. In five days, she turned from a vibrant ...
Collected here are correspondence, papers, and legal documentsincluding selected judicial opinionsof American jurist John Marshall. Revolutionary officer, congressman, and secretary of state before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Marshall served as the Court's fourth Chief Justice. In this capacity, he helped define the role of the ...
Alex Kirk awakens a million years from now, utterly alone and in terrible danger on a brave new Earth. Mankind has been extinct for eons, and Alex Kirk is marooned like no human ever before--not just in space, but in time. He is the last of his kind, an afterthought of evolution or fate, and now he must either perish or conquer this world and its ...
"Have Blue" was the most top-secret U.S. military project since the atomic bomb project, and in 1973 the fate of the world hung on what would eventually become known as the F117-A stealth fighter. This is a historical techno-thriller with a strong romantic story line, loosely based on the first days of that project.
Arthur Latchloose is a grumpy old banker who feels left behind by the world, though perhaps he unknowingly helped cause his estrangement from his late wife and their children. He hasn't a friend in the world, not even a pet, and has not celebrated a Christmas in years. He does have an unusual hobby to go along with his considerable wealth. He ...
What would it be like to return to Ancient Rome and discover what things were really like? A Walk in Ancient Rome is a fascinating journey that takes you back to a world so similar to ours, and yet totally different. A place where people asked the same questions about life, careers, current events, and gossiped much like we do today. A Walk in ...
Collected here are correspondence, papers, and legal documents--including selected judicial opinions--of American jurist John Marshall. Revolutionary officer, congressman, and secretary of state before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Marshall served as the Court's fourth Chief Justice. In this capacity, he helped define the role of the Court ...
What would it be like to return to Ancient Rome and discover what things were really like? "A Walk in Ancient Rome" is a fascinating journey that takes you back to a world so similar to ours, and yet totally different. A place where people asked the same questions about life, careers, current events, and gossiped much like we do today. "A Walk in ...
A riveting and fast-paced period thriller, closely based on a true story that was a national sensation in 1892 and has become an enduring legend. Continues the tradition of dark Victorian atmospherics like 'The Prestige'and 'The Illusionist,' but with the relentless noir evil-doing of the modern 'The Last Seduction' or 'The Postman Rings Twice.' ...
In a near future America, a series of crises prompts the U.S. to hold a second contitutional convention whose goal is to rewrite the U.S. constitution to account for a new and deadlier world, but the reforms unleash a terrible crisis that could destroy the United States and everything it represents.
In this steamy, intriguing novel of suspense, DEA Special Agent Laurel "Blue" Humboldt must unravel not only the deadly secrets of an international drug cartel, but also the unusual love triangle in which she finds herself. Does she care more for lovely Chinese American detective Martha Yee, or handsome millionaire John Connor? She can't think too ...
Science fiction and dark fantasy combine in an ominous, glistening dystopian tale about the perpetual war between two futuristic nations: West Gotha and East Gotha. Tedda, a West Gotha citizen, has committed a terrible crime that she cannot even remember--because her memories of the crime and of the love affair that led to it have been selectively ...
An unprecedented journey back in time to several amazing time periods in ancient Rome's long history. This is a delicious romp for readers who seek a chewy read with lots of historical detail and linguistic asides. Originally intended as a tour guide (which, totally rewritten as a new book, became John T. Cullen's "A Walk in Ancient Rome"--iBooks ...
Dark, delightfully chilling, and hugely creepy science fiction in the tradition of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "They Walked Like Men" and "The Thing." It's a summer movie in book form--especially great to take to San Diego and read on vacation. Carefully researched for plausibility, so that the horror is science fictional. The buildup of ...
A complex, imaginative tale set in a small California coastal town where the every-day touches hauntingly on the fabric of far space. A young reporter looking for her big break investigates mysterious zoo murders and stumbles upon an intergalactic invader in a virtual netherworld. Two men hover at the periphery--sinister Det. Vic Lara and handsome ...
If you liked the movie Alien, you will savor this gripping science fiction novel of terror and wonder in deep space. Not since the grim and relentless Alien has a ship this far from home been in so much trouble ... heart-stopping trouble, relentless action. Engineering Officers Ridge and Brenna are on the run for their lives inside a vast ghost ...
Just 25 light years from the dying Earth is a fresh, earth-like planet that beckons with radio transmissions. The six last surviving humans make the journey through space--to find a world riddled with mysteries, and answers to questions nobody had thought to ask...in the ghostly city of Avamish. Paul and Licia Menard struggle with the defunct ...
On Holy Mother Mars, the [terraformed] climate is failing and mankind seems doomed. The young monk Brother Farr is startled by a sneak visit into Graniston Domes by wild-eyed exile Shan the Heretic, who tells of the looming assassination of the Popess. Moments later, Shan is killed by temple police, and his secrets die with him. An assassination ...
"John T. Cullen has created a richly-realized far-future world in which strange wonders are revealed as considerable suspense builds. The characters are interesting, and the plot moves well, but the real star here is the universe in which the events take place, especially the inhabited moon, Shur, with its complex starfaring alien culture, ...
Umnitsa means 'Good Girl' in Russian. A dying young mother calls her only child by this endearment as they live in abject poverty in Siberia after World War II. A fabulously wealthy French family adopt the orphan, and raise her in Paris as their own, only child. Now Marianne, Countess Didier, she owns palaces and is chased bypaparazzi. She has a ...
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