James Parker

Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights. The book presents Bernard Lonergan's theory about consciousness and the operations of the mind-a theory about two types of knowing and desiring: one shared by humans and animals, and the other, which depends on the activity of asking questions, possessed by humans alone. The author tests...

"Breaking Free: When My Hero Turned Into My Abuser" is a memoir about a boy struggling through both sexual and mental harassment, how it changed him, and how it informed his growth as an adult. A successful businessman became his father figure, allowing him to live with his wife and children in a welcome escape from his childhood of poverty. Within a few years, however, he felt entrapped by the man's domineering personality and obsession with transforming...

Dealing with identity, depression, self-harm and counselling, James S M Parker's follow up to 'Love or Suicide and the Life In-Between' is a collection of fact, poetry and short story focusing on an 18 month period of his life from mid 2013 to the end of 2014. Part one looks at life, death and how we are influenced by our parents whilst part two is written as a diary using poetry, statements and observations. Brutally honest, deeply uncompromising,...

The story you are about to read is told from the perspective of Julien, a young journalist in close proximity to a person the Bible calls the "Beast." Julien will give us a window into the character of the Antichrist and how our last days could unfold according to Scripture's ultimate plot. This imagined prophetic narrative will also reveal how this coming prince may alter reality and impact humankind--and eventually transform into the most malevolent...

This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to marfan syndrome (also Arachnodactyly; Contractural Arachnodactyly; Dolichostenomelia; Marfanoid Hypermobility Syndrome; Marfan's...

The stories... have appeared in the New Yorker during the past ten years.