Books written by Jacob M. Appel

  • Mission at Tenth
    Mission at Tenth

    Interdisciplinary arts print magazine published annually by the MFA program at California Institute of Integral Studies

  • Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
    Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

    Reflection #52 Abbott, Alison. “Regulations Proposed for Animal–Human Chimaeras.” Nature 475 (July 2011). Appel, Jacob M. “The Monster's Laws: A Legal History of Chimera Research.” GeneWatch 19, no. 2 (March–April 2006): 12–16.

  • Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
    Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

    Or, when you or a loved one is on life support, Who says you’re dead? In short, engaging scenarios, Dr. Appel takes on hot-button issues that many of us will confront: genetic screening, sexuality, privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality.

  • The Cynic in Extremis: Poems
    The Cynic in Extremis: Poems

    The Cynic in Extremis: Poems

  • Einstein's Beach House: Stories
    Einstein's Beach House: Stories

    In eight tragicomic stories, Einstein's Beach House features ordinary men and women rising to life's extraordinary challenges.

  • Millard Salter's Last Day
    Millard Salter's Last Day

    “Honestly, scared scriptless, as they say. I think I've run out of words.” “You don't have to talk.” Millard had brought along the checkers board the previous week; in his experience, tangible challenges like checkers or chess provided ...

  • The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
    The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

    "Arnold Brinkmann is a timid, ultra-liberal botanist living in New York.

  • The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up: A Novel

    A hilarious bullet into the heart of modern America, this novel mixes the literary sensibilities of Jonathan Franzen with the raucous satire of D.B.C. Pierre, and was the recipient of the Dundee International Book Prize.

  • The Liars' Asylum: Stories
    The Liars' Asylum: Stories

    These stories fly through the air and grip your heart. Appel's naturalness as a storyteller makes THE LIARS' ASYLUM a total pleasure, a collection in a league of its own. Each story--there are no duds here--engages and entertains.

  • The Mask of Sanity
    The Mask of Sanity

    At a cultural moment when the media bombards us with images of so-called sociopaths who strive for good and criminals redeemed by repentance, The Mask of Sanity offers an antidote to implausible tales of evil gone right.