It has long been the habit of persons unfriendly to the Orthodox Churches of the East to speak of them as well nigh dead Churches. The charge has been but too eagerly repeated by such as, determined upon a certain course of public policy, through a blind selfishness which must surely bring, if persisted in, a dread Nemesis, were not inclined to think well of Eastern Christians, whom it would have been inconvenient to recognize as brethren. A favorite specification in the accusation brought...

Clint Harrison, a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, sees his world come to a violent end one sunny day when a car bomb meant for him takes the lives of his wife and his young son. Fleeing from a past that haunts his every waking moment, Clint suddenly finds himself embroiled in an adventure that combines romance, greed, treachery and spine-tingling danger. The saga begins in the small southwestern Colorado town of Climax, where blind fate plunges Clint headlong into a clash betw...

The third in a series of adventures involving Clint Harrison, a Sheriff in rural Colorado

After assuming the position of Sheriff following the untimely death of Sheriff Jim Jensen, Clint Harrison, who first appeared in Heaven's Gate, is called to Capitol City to meet with the governor, who asks him to undertake a high-level and very sensitive investigation of possible corruption in the Capitol City Police Department. Clint teams up with two highly-skilled and seasoned state agents, Alex Arrowsmith and Ray Montijo, as they seek to discover the truth behind a bizarre and evil plo...

Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participat...

It was probably the French chemist Portes, who first reported in 1880 that the mucin in the vitreous body, which he named hyalomucine, behaved differently from other mucoids in cornea and cartilage. Fifty four years later Karl Meyer isolated a new polysaccharide from the vitreous, which he named hyaluronic acid. Today its official name is hyaluronan, and modern-day research on this polysaccharide continues to grow. Expertly written by leading scientists in the field, this book provides rea...

The chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacology of heparin and heparan sulfate have been and continue to be a major scientific undertaking - heparin and its derivative remain important drugs in clinical practice. Chemistry and Biology of Heparin and Heparan Sulfate provides readers with an insight into the chemistry, biology and clinical applications of heparin and heparan sulfate and examines their function in various physiological and pathological conditions. Providing a wealth of useful in...

Hearth & Home Audio are proud to present this new abridged audiobook of Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol'Performed by Callum Hale with Music by Dylan Allcock.Ebenezer Scrooge is infamous throughout London as a cruel miser, but one Christmas evening; he is visited by the spectre of an old acquaintance, an acquaintance who urges Scrooge to repent his penny pinching ways, and seek redemption.Experience this classic, uplifting fable anew with this fresh produ...

Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas is an essential roadmap to understanding contemporary racial politics across the Americas, where openly white supremacist politics are on the rise. It is the product of a multiyear, transnational research project by the Anti-racist Research and Action Network of the Americas in collaboration with resistance movements confronting racial retrenchment in Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. How did we get h...

Example in this ebookCHAPTER IGETTING READY FOR THE PARTY"What's Hallowe'en mean, Father?" asked Thomas Brown as the family was seated at breakfast one morning late in October."It means the evening before All Saints Day," answered Father Brown."Do you remember what fun we had last year, Chuck?" remarked Toad, for Thomas was called "Toad" by his friends, and Charley was known as "Chuck.""I should say I do," he answered.

Following the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the global politics of climate change depends more than ever on national climate policies and the actions of cities, businesses, and other non-state actors, as well as the transnational governance networks that link them. The Comparative Politics of Transnational Climate Governance sheds new light on these critical trends by exploring how domestic political, economic, and social forces systematically shape patterns of non-state actor par...

Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you’ll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection—not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors.Rhys Ford - Dim Sum AsylumGinn Hale - Swift and the Black Dog