Best Selling Books by James Newman

Join in the heart-warming story of a little boy who, after writing him a letter, gets to meet Santa on Christmas Eve. Includes your very own special letter to write!

No Rest for the Wicked... What do ancient Satanic curses, rock n'' roll, the Mafia, urban legends, Internet porn, Tourette''s Syndrome, and zombies have in common? Read Night of the Loving Dead, and you''ll find out. You''ll also never go to sleep again. Night after night, in Grady Memorial Hospital''s Autopsy Room #1, the dead awaken. For several hours they rise, with an unholy urge. But these reanimated corpses are driven not by a hunger for human flesh, but by an evil lust for carnal knowledge! Night of the Loving Dead is a novella of hardcore horror, a trashy, B-movie hybrid of The Sopranos, Day of the Dead and Showgirls. Throw in a demented dash of drive-in camp and a blood-spattered ode to sex on the information superhighway, and you''ve got a story that might just be the most twisted tale you''ve ever read. Night of the Loving Dead. You''ll never look at sex and death the same way again...

From Adam Howe, writer of Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet, and the winner of Stephen King''s On Writing contest... and James Newman, acclaimed author of Odd Man Out and Animosity. March 29, 1987... For metalheads Mike Rawson, Lonnie Deveroux, and Pork Chop, an RV road trip to Wrestlemania III becomes a one-way ticket to hell. While delivering an illegal shipment of counterfeit wrestling merchandise, an ill-fated shortcut through the Kentucky backwoods leads them to a teenaged girl carved head to toe in arcane symbols. Soon our unlikely heroes are being hunted through the boonies by a cult of religious crazies who make the Westboro Baptists look like choirboys

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became the globally recognized home of international crime fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. With this issue, it also becomes home to a new literary form, the blot, which takes the form of police blotter entries. Noir Nation''s content is often dark, sometimes creepy, sometimes humorous but always at the service of the literary imagination that explores the darker regions of human experience--where weak writing is the only crime. This issue includes Fiction by Erika Nichols-Frazer, Anne Swardson, Christopher Locke, BV Lawson, Ron David, JJ Toner, and John Helden; Police Blotter (Blots) by Ava Black, Frauke Schuster, and David R. Stafford; Nonfiction by J.B. Stevens, Michael A. Gonzales, and James Newman; and Poetry by Rosanne Limoncelli, Laura Hoffman Kelly, George Perreault, Todd Hearon, Steve Butler, Erik Dionne, and Carl Watson. Publisher, Eddie Vega; Managing Editor, Steve Heiden; Editors, Wendy A. Reynolds and Rowena Galavitz; Editor-at-Large, Alan Ward Thomas; Founding Editor, Cort McMeel (1971-2013).

"Sandy''s Adventure" is a picture book aimed at K-4 students. Woven within the story are simple scientific and biological concepts, including vocabulary, that are introduced with little additional effort beyond reading the story. The book has 38 beautifully illustrated pages and includes a simple illustrated Glossary and two reproducible learning activities appropriate for learning at home or classroom use. There is ample topic material for older readers to explore beyond the book.Sandy the Starfish is lost. This is a new and challenging experience for her. She doesn''t know how she will get back to her family in the ocean. During the course of the afternoon, Sandy tries many ways to travel back to the ocean, some with humorous results. She survives encounters with some known and some unfamiliar dangers before she gets home. How will she get home?

Report of a study to determine if a biodegration potential exists in the Beaufort Sea, determine rates of degradation at various temperatures by various cultures and determine optimum temperatures for oil degradation.

If there is one thing that distinguishes videogames from other media forms surely it is their interactivity. What it quite means to be a ''player'', or what constitutes the distinctive ''play position'', has never been more complicated, contested and confusing – so much so that it need not involve touching a controller at all, far less becoming an accomplished performer. We see players learning from one another as they observe technique, and shifting between playing and spectating as they take turns sharing gameplay one level or life at a time. Spectate! Recording, Streaming and Watching Videogames explores the phenomenon of videogame spectatorship and presents a historically-grounded case for a reconsideration of our conceptualization and approaches to videogame play. Renowned games scholar James Newman covers player activities, how platforms enable spectating in interesting ways, and how spectating helps play a role in archiving and preserving game history. Recognizing that the playability of a videogame is a temporary state, Newman argues that spectatorship is not merely a viable alternative to first hand play but that it might offer insights into the nuance and variety of possible playings impossible to attain in any other way. Newman''s analysis for understanding how games have been integrated into the landscape of new media will become required reading.

"There has been a growing consensus among scholars of the Hebrew Bible that Ancient Judahite kingship was a dynamic institution. By that, it is meant that the ideology which legitimated the monarchy adapted to changing political circumstances and took distinct forms in the pre-exilic period. This thesis analyzes both the Biblical text and relevant scholarly literature to describe and summarize two distinct royal ideologies of Ancient Judah: The Zion Royal Ideology and the Deuteronomistic Royal Ideology. It additionally discusses the relevance of archaeological debates concerning the historicity of the United Monarchy to the existence and role of these royal ideologies"--