Mark Butler: 47 books

In this candid autobiography, Mark Butler narrates the early life experiences that led to his enlistment in the US Navy and subsequent deployment to Iraq.  In the first half of this book, Mark dabbles with the traditional route of a biography, highlighting his most private experiences with parents,...

The year is 1215 in Medieval Europe. Pope Innocent III is waging two crusades simultaneously. The smaller Albigensian Crusade is a vicious war on the Cathars, an extremist sect on separatists in Southern France. The Fifth Crusade is also raging, emptying Europe's fighting men into the Middle East...

Rejoin the beloved characters from 'The Seventh Crusade' as they embark on their greatest quest yet, 'The Final Crusade'!  Francois, Artois and Olivia have returned from the disastrous Seventh Crusade to France. Upon arrival in Paris, they discover that their battlefields heroics are not to...

Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound. The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...

We know that personal finance should be simple math: spend less than what comes in the door. Yet we also know that—people being people—this is rarely done with ease. Enter Mark Butler’s winsome, original work on the psychology of money. While encountering a variety of irrepressible characters and...

IN A SWEEPING HISTORICAL SAGA that extends from the mud pits of France to the perilous Middle East, one small family embarks on an adventure of wonder and terror to fight evil and become legends. Francois is the younger brother, an archer with lethal skill. A healer and lover at heart, Francois struggles...

Europe- The Dark Ages. The church is bankrupt, the Fifth Crusade a colossal failure. When King Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor, embarks on the Sixth Crusade, Leonardo di Spie, a spy, thief and killer, is entrusted with keeping him alive against insurmountable odds. In a sweeping historical...

As the Eleventh Century wanes, Pope Urban the Second knows well the stories that creep across the medieval landscape; Christians are enslaved, raped and murdered in Jerusalem, their sacred rites are denied, and the resting place of their God is befouled, demonized, by the Saracen Muslims. But Pope...

Josh Hammond had become accustomed to being a family man and business owner until the people who gave him the greatest joy in life, his only reason to live, were snatched from him. After two Russian security operatives visit the family home to assist with his suicide, Josh realises the dark world...

When Jenny Davis discovers her husband’s infidelity, she storms out of their house. Out of John’s life. Out of the comfort zone. Jenny takes up temporary residence in a Dallas apartment, with her close friend, Rebekah. Disappointed and stunned by John, she rushes onto the singles scene. Late-night...

From Mark Twain to O. Henry, from Saki to Washington Irving—The Classic Humor Megapack reels in no less than 45 classic short stories and poems sure to amuse. Read and laugh! Included are: THE STRIKE OF ONE, by Elliott Flower THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, by Mark Twain A DOUBLE-DYED...

Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised, evolving...

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. "It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." Thus begins one of the most important...

"Debris and Detritus, the lesser-known Greek gods..." * These words launched over a dozen alternate realities and histories, invaded existing universes, and even inspired a book or two—with Debris and Detritus running amok through every world they touch. With nothing else to go on, writers...