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All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Sidney Grice is swotting up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward, March Middleton, sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day. The house is, perhaps, too quiet. So when a beautiful young woman turns up, imploring London's foremost personal detective to solve the mystery of her father's murder, Grice can barely disguise his glee...

The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with weapons), and components that have flavored this art with a spiritual essence. From the Ueshiba wellspring flows a number of streams—political splinter groups offering their own take on what aikido should be and how it should be practiced. Each branch may stand on its own, but a good number of scholars and ...

An affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy. Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work--from street-based to OnlyFans--clinicians too often focus on what they think sex...

I never meant to fall in love with my stepbrother, but Dante cared for me in ways no one ever had before. But then, he vanished without a trace. For five years, I’ve wondered how he could walk away so easily, leaving our hopes and dreams behind. I never thought I’d see Dante again. Then, my world is turned upside down when he reappears.

Prepare to be entranced by this utterly unique, historical fantasy novel with a fairytale feel from the million-copy bestselling M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts. In a kingdom forgotten by history, a legend unfolds . . . Wounded in his county's endless wars, former soldier Mag...

Behind manicured lawns and polite suburban smiles lives a man you’d never suspect—quiet, polite, invisible. But within his walls, he studies routines, tracks weaknesses, and dissects human behavior with disturbing precision. What begins as “hypothetical” musings soon twists into something far more sinister: a slow-burn descent into obsession, control, and the cold logic of a predator.

Human consciousness is a biological machine. Until someone else takes the controls.Dr. David Kemp, a brilliant and uncompromising Boston anthropologist, is days away from publishing the definitive scientific takedown of the Haitian zombie myth. His data is flawless: the "walking dead" are simply victims of localized neurotoxins, anticholinergic delirium, and behavioral contagion. For Kemp, human behavior is just chemistry, and chemistry never lies.Until Kemp draws a blood sample from a walking man that registers as biologically inert.When Kemp’s own right arm stops obeying his commands—...

The Vatican’s Chief Exorcist doesn't just fight the darkness. He keeps it caged inside his own mind. Father Thomas O’Neill is a man defined by absolute control. A former archaeologist turned Vatican exorcist, he relies on cold, academic discipline to hunt demonic entities across the globe. But his rigid routine serves a much darker purpose: it acts as a psychological vault, keeping an ancient, world-ending singularity trapped within his own subconscious. His only tether to humanity is Ezekiel, a sixty-pound ginger tomcat who serves as his biological EMF detector. When Ezekiel is ...

HALLOWEEN. So much more than costumes and candy, it's the time when the veil between our world and the other side is at its thinnest. The hour when dark forces come into the light in search of innocent souls. A time of blood and evil. With SAMHAIN SCREAMS, Australian Shadows Award-winner and multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated author and artist Greg Chapman, and acclaimed author Cameron Trost, bring you TWENTY original Halloween tales by authors from across the globe. Stories of nightmarish trick or treats, supernatural slashers and macabre rituals - all to make your blood run cold on the ...

After the finest battleship-class spaceship in Earth's fleet, the U.S.S. Merrimack, rescues a near-space Roman world besieged by a destructive alien life-form known as the Hive, the Romans' leader, Caesar Magnus, insists on honoring the ship's captain, John Farragut. But when Caesar is assassinated, Farragut must lead a mission into the heart of Hive territory in search of a Roman who has been presumed "dead" for decades.

"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" (1931) is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. By contrast to the gothic tales of his predecessors, James' stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasize the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.

With so many people around the globe migrating, how should Christians and the church respond? Leading Latino-American biblical scholar M. Daniel Carroll R. helps listeners understand what the Bible says about immigration, offering accessible, nuanced, and sympathetic guidance for the church. After two successful editions of Christians at the Border, and having talked and written about immigration over the past decade, Carroll has sharpened his focus and refined his argument to make sure we hear clearly what the Bible says about one of the most pressing issues of our day.

William E Simon - quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, Treasury Secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic. Simon's insightful and often humorous autobiography, A Time for Reflection, includes a diverse cast of characters whose lives intersected with his own.

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. R. M. Ballantyne, a devout Christian and outspoken advocate for Christian boyhood, changed the lives of hundreds of thousands with his globe-trekking adventure stories that emphasized Christian character in the face of adversity. In The Coral Island, three Christian boys, shipwrecked in the South Pacific, rely on godly wisdom, biblical insight, and plucky courage to outwit and overcome pirates and cannibals.

The 18:05 commuter train was supposed to take him home. Instead, it took him fifty years into the past. Briggs Worth is a forensic structural engineer. He doesn’t believe in ghosts; he believes in load paths, shear forces, and the inevitability of collapse. He has spent his life calculating risk and pushing his estranged daughter away to keep her safe. But when Briggs falls asleep on his evening commute, the world shifts. The smell of stale sweat is replaced by ozone and unfiltered tobacco. The plastic seats turn to crushed red velvet. And the date on the newspaper across the aisle ...

Carla married Pete after her former fiancé, Wayne - Pete's best friend since childhood - cheated on her. Lately, she's begun meeting Wayne as a friend, but she's also been gauging her smoldering attraction to him. Then Pete lays a shocking secret on Carla and asks for her forgiveness: he's been unfaithful.

Some secrets aren't buried to hide the dead. They are buried to starve the impossible. Investigative journalist Jessica Holt trusts only what she can measure. Raised in the shadow of her mother’s severe schizophrenia, Jessica uses hard data, digital recordings, and empirical facts as psychological armor against the unexplainable. When she arrives in the isolated, rain-slicked town of Oakhaven to expose a corrupt AI data center expansion, she expects a straightforward story of corporate greed and environmental negligence. But the massive excavators haven't disturbed a standard burial ...

Royel M. Johnson and Shaun R. Harper's book, The Big Lie About Race in America's Schools, delivers a collective response to the challenge of racially charged misinformation, disinformation, and censorship that increasingly permeates and weakens not only US education but also our democracy.

In the quiet suburbs of Indiana, Herbert Baumeister appeared to have it all: a thriving business, a loving family, and the perfect home. But beneath the polished veneer of success lay a predator whose crimes would shock the nation. Known as “The Bone Collector”, Baumeister preyed upon young men from Indianapolis’s gay community, luring them to his secluded Fox Hollow Farm—where investigators later uncovered thousands of bone fragments scattered across the property.

Physical control of the mind by direct manipulation of the brain is a novel event in human history. In this volume, Dr. Jose M. R. Delgado describes his pioneering work in implanting electrodes in the brains of cats, monkeys, and men. Through electrical stimulation of specific cerebral structures, Delgado demonstrates how movements can be induced by radio command, hostility may appear or disappear, social hierarchy can be modified, sexual behavior may be changed, and memory, emotions, and the thinking process may be influenced by remote control.