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The triumphs and tragedies of a single family come to life in D. Warren Napier's poignant debut novel, "Benched Resolve."

When three generations of a family all live under the same roof, life can quickly become a bit messy. In this case, an old 1950s-built house has been specially renovated to accommodate four separate apartments-which does little to quell the constant tensions and surprising niceties that guide the family's day-to-day interactions.

Nestled within a small-town neighborhood that is slowly watching its charm give way to the big city, the unabashedly small house sits...

Author William Napier takes us for a wild ride through the ranks of corporate America's executive management teams in Drowning in Bad Management Napier, a thirty-year corporate finance executive with experience primarily in the mortgage-banking industry, considers the mostly ineffective types of managers who are frequently encountered in corporations and the almost unbelievable myriad of blunders perpetrated by these alleged executives at many companies.

There are issues that seem to emerge again and again in corporate America in a...

African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period.

By constantly bringing attention to the larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of literary texts, the...

Contemporary epistemology debates have largely been occupied with formulating a definition of knowledge that is immune to any counterexample. To date, no definition has been able to escape unscathed.

Moving away from debates about definitions, Virtue Epistemology shows what conditions are essential for knowledge and applies this account to different domains. It proposes that agents must be motivated correctly to acquire knowledge, even in the case of perception.

Stephen Napier examines closely the empirical research in cognitive science and moral psychology to build an...