Most Popular Books by M. Williams

Could you survive in an extreme environment with nearly nothing? That question is explored in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. Growing up, Petra struggled to survive on a unsympathetic world. No mother. No secure shelter. Lack of food. She learned to survive on her wits. The agency represented unimagined opportunities and a way out. Petra knew that the agency’s survival challenge could make or break her future career chances. Survive one week under extreme conditions. Find water, food, and shelter in a place that appears to lack any of those necessities—with the most minimal of tools. A challenge unlike any she had ever encountered in her life. Ryan M. Williams’ Surface Conditions, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

Paige seeks new connection in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. Content-creator Paige built a reputation on smart is sexy with her engineering, computer, and sci-fi content. She gains followers from 3D printing enthusiasts, home lab tinkerers, coders, and science fiction fans. Success—at a price. All of it leading her to her greatest invention, the idea driving her to success is finally coming to fruition—world-changing if she pulls it off! Ryan M. Williams’ Connect, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

Realizing a dream is a challenge in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. Dr. Ethan Tentanya’s dream remains elusive despite years of work. Limited resources and a lack of time conspire to put obstacles in his path. Rachael understood. Her support provides him with the motivation to continue his work. On the eve of success, he faces a challenge threatening to derail his dreams forever. Ryan M. Williams’ Coming Home, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

The pursuit of justice takes an unexpected turn in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. Roy Leon Decker. A member of the terrorist group, the Forty-Fives. Long rap sheet for acts of terrorism and other crimes on the Earth and the Moon. Hopped a Ceres-bound transport. No extradition treaty between Ceres and the UWG on Earth. It’s Luke Dover’s job to locate Roy and carry out the sentence assigned by the court back on Earth. It’s also his first time on Ceres, where he discovers that plans are never as simple as they seem. Ryan M. Williams’ A Stranger From Earth, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

A last chance turns into a surprise in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. A break-up shattered Katy’s life, leading to the loss of her home and her job. Alone with her dog Edgar, she fought to regain her footing and find her place in the world. An unexpected inheritance offers a way out for Katy—if she can handle the conditions that come with it. Ryan M. Williams’ Inheritance, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

Goldilocks encounters three extraterrestrial species in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. On Mars, in 2222, Lynne enjoys a peaceful life on the rapidly terraformed planet with her xeno companion, Tooney. Furry, with a fluffy blue-gray tail, an engaging personality, and unconditional love—the best friend anyone could ever imagine. Without the intervention and help from the elder xeno species, the terraforming of Mars would have taken many more centuries to reach this stage. And people wouldn’t have the companionship of the urcskins like Tooney. Understanding why the elder species did what they did—that’s the real question. Ryan M. Williams’ Just Right, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

FIRST CONTACT STARTS AT HOME IRiS, the Interstellar Recovery Spacecraft, captured samples from a comet passing through the solar system and found something remarkable. Danny lives in his own world, finding connections through video games and gesture. Emmett does what all good fathers do and seeks for new ways to connect with his son. Sometimes first contact begins right here at home.

Countless worlds exist in the solar system—all the way out into deep space, as is shown in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. The solar system—the collection of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and everything between orbiting the star called Sol—is more vast than those living on a single planet for their entire history can possibly imagine. Distances so great that light itself hours to reach the outer limits of the Sun’s influence. Out among the trans-Neptunian objects drifting in a cloud around the Sun, Lurn plots a solitary path for his ship, Isis. Accompanied only by the construct Dod, Lurn spends his golden years directing the harvest of water and resource-rich comets—sending the fruits of their labor down the gravity well to other worlds. Only their next target appears quite unusual… Ryan M. Williams’ Hollow Spaces, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

Collecting forgotten treasures becomes unusually challenging in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. My name (at least the one I share) is Fractured Quark. I’m a BOC, Bio-Organic Construct, or meat robot. Android. Evil doll. Take your pick. I tend to stay out of human-controlled space. It’s safer out among the megafauna-sized xenos for a boc. I have one of the greatest collections of original (as in wood pulp) Twentieth and Twenty-First century human literature. The chance to obtain one of the rarest books in the galaxy was enough to get me out of my sanctuary. Time to take a risk. Ryan M. Williams’ BOC, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil. Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it''s kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she''s good at it. And lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Let''s just say she owes some people a new tree. Enter Cassandra Heaven. She''s Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria cooking. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme''s babysitters club? The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra''s mother left her: "Find the babysitters. Love, Mom." Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they''re about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. And all before the parents get home.

Born and raised in the South and marrying her high school sweetheart, Sicily only had two goals: having a happy and healthy family and being a successful businesswoman, and she was accomplishing both. She could''ve never imagined the impact of hiring new help would have on both. Although happily married to Terrence, Chad suddenly became her lover. A mystery in himself. Her world starts to unfold as she finds out Chad and Terrence has more in common than being in love with her. Romance, drama, and suspense all rolled up in the life of Sicily Bryant Robinson.

This book compares the Communist parties of India and South Africa in their pursuits of socialist democracy. Williams looks at their organizational characteristics, party history, and their competing tendencies, as well as how they have pushed forward their similar ideologies within their unique political and economic environments.

Originally published in 1968, this book set out to give a brief but complete account of the French Parliament as it had worked in practice since the advent of President de Gaulle. A number of different aspects are discussed, from the social background of the members to the debates on five sample bills, and from the strategy of pressure groups to the organisation and character of the Gaullist party (about which very little had been written). While the legal framework within which the new parliament works is comprehensively described, attention is mainly focused on a political situation transformed by the end of the Algerian war and by the speed of social change in France itself at the time. Earlier books on the Fifth Republic naturally concentrated heavily on the spectacular crises of its early years and on the exceptional personality of its president. Remarkably little, therefore, had been written on the recent development of its institutions and politics in the peacetime conditions which France had enjoyed since 1962 for the first time for over twenty years. There was a Gaullist myth that the new regime had reformed the system and, against the obstructive opposition of an Opposition which had learned nothing and forgotten nothing, had won the support of the French people for a strong democratic government on British lines. There was a corresponding Opposition myth that a ruler and party of authoritarian temper had consolidated their power by reducing parliamentary criticism to an impotent farce. Neither interpretation was wholly unfounded; neither does justice to the complex reality which this work tries to explain as fairly as possible.

A killer holds an entire planet hostage. Brock Marsden uses Galactic technology to incorporate alien DNA into his body—gaining super-human abilities. As a member of the Moreau Society, Brock knows the risks, the dangers of using such advanced technology. Those reckless, ignorant, or simply unlucky risk becoming Dumpties, scrambled beyond saving, dying a horrible death. Now a rogue ex-member of the Moreau Society has twisted the Galactic technology into a horrible weapon capable of murder by mutation. The killer holds the entire planet hostage to his demands for a Galactic to surrender to him—something that the Glittering Throng will never do. With everything at stake, Brock Marsden must track down the killer and stop him before the unthinkable happens. In a case that demands everything, how much will Brock sacrifice to save a world?

A parent’s fear is realized in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series. Meg deals with problems every day, like any parent. Bills. The fear that comes from not knowing if her rent would go up. Or one of the worst—what happens if she or her daughter, Adelaide, gets sick? A scream shatters their peaceful evening as Adelaide throws herself to the floor among her toys. As Meg’s heart breaks for her daughter, she desperately seeks the answer for the question no parent wants to ask: What’s wrong? Ryan M. Williams’ Adelaide, is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.

This two-volume set is a broad compendium of the law, policies, and legal influences that affect the food on our plates today. As food increasingly impacts our health and our wallets, we need to understand the enormous effect of law—both U.S. law and international regulations—on the safety and availability of the food we eat. The A-Z Encyclopedia of Food Controversies and the Law was compiled to help readers do just that. The most comprehensive work covering food and law, the encyclopedia surveys laws related to organics, obesity, and fair trade. It tackles the intersection of law and religious belief, for example with kosher and halal foods, as well as controversies over labeling practices and consumer protection in general. And it looks at the relationship of class to food, exposing poor urban areas that possess few sources of fresh food so that residents are forced to rely on convenience stores and fast food for nutrition. As background, the set also presents a basic history of food-related law to show us how we got where we are.

Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake''s unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake''s thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake''s major poems alongside Rousseau''s Emile, Wollstonecraft''s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine''s Rights of Man, Burke''s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen''s Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival illustrates how settler colonialism propelled U.S. government programs designed to assimilate generations of Native children at the Stewart Indian School (1890–1980). The school opened in Carson City, Nevada, in 1890 and embraced its mission to destroy the connections between Native children and their lands, isolate them from their families, and divorce them from their cultures and traditions. Newly enrolled students were separated from their families, had their appearances altered, and were forced to speak only English. However, as Samantha M. Williams uncovers, numerous Indigenous students and their families subverted school rules, and tensions arose between federal officials and the local authorities charged with implementing boarding school policies. The first book on the history of the Stewart Indian School, Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival reveals the experiences of generations of Stewart School alumni and their families, often in their own words. Williams demonstrates how Indigenous experiences at the school changed over time and connects these changes with Native American activism and variations in federal policy. Williams’s research uncovers numerous instances of abuse at Stewart, and Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival addresses both the trauma of the boarding school experience and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances.

Introducing John Stockley Pomeroy, unmitigated rascal, black sheep, scion of a distinguished Tennessee family and secret agent to the world''s highest and lowest trouble spots in the service of President Theodore Roosevelt.