Tom Head

Career

Editor and writer. Bookstore assistant, Choctaw Books, Jackson, MS, 1998–2000; freelance writer, 2000–.

Member

National Writers Union, Authors Guild, Publishers Marketing Association.

Writings

Nonfiction

• (With Mariah Bear and John Bear) Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• (With John Bear and Mariah Bear) Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning, 14th edition, Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.
• (With John Bear, and Mariah Bear, and Larry McQueary) Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning, Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.
• (With John Bear, Mariah Bear, and Thomas Nixon) Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning, Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.
• Freedom of Religion, Facts on File (New York, NY), 2005.
• Absolute Beginner's Guide to the Bible, Que Publishing (Indianapolis, IN), 2005.

Editor

• Confederate Generals, Blackbirch Press (San Diego, CA), 2003.
• Mikhail Gorbachev, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2003.
• Slaves, Blackbirch Press (San Diego, CA), 2003.
• Union Generals, Blackbirch Press (San Diego, CA), 2003.
• Women and Families, Blackbirch Press (San Diego, CA), 2003.
• The Bill of Rights, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2004.
• (With mother, Carol Carwile Head) 1966, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2004.
• The Future of the Internet, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2004.
• Mysterious Places, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2004.
• Possessions and Exorcisms, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2004.
• Religion and Education, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2005.
• Conversations with Carl Sagan, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2006.
• What Is the State of Human Rights?, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2006.
• Is Torture Ever Justified?, Greenhaven Press (San Diego, CA), 2006.

Work in Progress

A lengthy documentary history of American criminal justice with Miami University crime historian David Wolcott, for Facts on File.

Biographical and Critical Sources

Periodicals

• School Library Journal, November, 2003, Elizabeth Talbot, review of Mikhail Gorbachev, p. 160.