This illustrated ultimate collection gathers Richard Marsh's fiction across horror, crime, and supernatural suspense, revealing the range of a writer who helped define late-Victorian popular imagination. Moving from uncanny visitations and occult menace to ingenious murder mysteries and sensation-driven thrillers, the volume showcases Marsh's brisk plotting, theatrical dialogue, and gift for atmosphere. His work belongs beside fin-de-siècle Gothic and detective fiction, engaging anxieties ...

Is the answer in her past?Or in someone else’s future…Her body is found on Wednesday morning.Hanging from a tree. Halfway between May Beck and Falling Foss.Brady’s got one clue.And only one clue.Five tarot cards.But are they a message for him?A warning for the dead woman?Or a reading for a client?Is the answer in her past? Or in someone else’s future?The Hanged Woman sees Brady challenged like he’s never been ch...

The History of American Military offers a sweeping institutional and strategic account of the United States' armed forces, tracing the evolution of American military practice from colonial conflicts to modern global operations. Combining narrative history, operational analysis, and interpretive synthesis, the volume situates campaigns and battles within broader political, social, technological, and diplomatic contexts. Its significance lies in its range: frontier warfare, civil conflict, w...

Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries (1984) is an attempt to encourage the collection of analytically appropriate data that can be used to help in the design of migration-related policies. It looks at the theoretical perspectives that have been used in the study of migration phenomena, and brings out implications for data collections. It discusses issues of primary concern in the design of migration surveys, as well as analytical issues. Social and demographic issues, work ac...

The stories in this book were supplied by squadron mates who served with the U.S. Navy's Airborne Early Warning Squadron One or VW-1, a squadron that supported the Seventh Fleet and also engaged in typhoon tracking. The squadron's existence spanned a nearly 20 year period that began with the Korean War and ended with the Vietnam War. This collection is titled “From Guam and Beyond” because the squadron was stationed on Guam but it also includes the authors’ experiences as they were station...

This collection consists of the greatest British mystery novels and detective stories, all concocted by the masterminds of the mystery genre: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Other Mysteries True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men Series Mr. J. G. Re...

An indispensable, up-to-date resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and education.Finding out that you have diabetes immediately raises questions about the condition, its treatment, and its impact on your future. Why did I get diabetes? What will I have to do to treat it? How will my future health be affected by having diabetes? What will my life be like? Getting accurate answers to these and many other questions will...

Are you called to confront spiritual giants in your generation?Giants still rise in the form of cultural darkness, spiritual opposition, compromise, and territorial strongholds. But God still raises consecrated believers to stand with authority.In Giant Killers in God's Kingdom, Richard E. S. Takim presents a powerful apostolic teaching on:Spiritual mantles and divine authorityPrayer burdens and intercessionEnd-tim...

Shapeshifting stories by Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Midori Snyder, Jane Yolen, and others: "Rich reading that meets the editors' high standards." — Kirkus ReviewsIn world mythology, transformation legends are attached to almost every type of animal: a variety of birds, fish, reptiles, and even insects. In this book, you'll find stories inspired by such myths from around the world, retold and reimagined by some of the very best writers in the realm of fant...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues. Whether you're a student grappling with a health communications course or a professional wishing to learn how to communicate health and safety messages effectively to a range of audiences using a vari...

From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to utilitarian and retributive theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rule of law and an essential check on government power. These concepts all embody the fundamental value that government and private actions should not be demonstrably excessive relative to their moral and practical justifications. In the American legal system, despite frequent though unacknowledged use of proportionality...