The walls remember everything in Ravenswood, an award-winning supernatural horror that doesn't let go.Ghost hunters seek to contact the restless spirits of Ravenswood Asylum, an abandoned building devoid of hope. The decaying walls of this long-abandoned institution hide more than just memories of suffering; they conceal a force that defies comprehension. When contact is made, an unspeakable evil is found, an entity that feeds on fear and despair. As reali...

A bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map var...

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured 200 years of displacement. As a result, relatively little is known about the location, organization, or ambience of their ancestral villages. Perched on a triangular finger of land against...

Come along for the professional life journey of Dr. Smith as he weaves together the world of medicine from medical school through the crucial years of internship and training into the work world taking him from Boston to the West Coast. For several years he treats patients in clinics and emergency rooms before joining a multi-specialty group treating spine disorders. He spends the last 25 years in solo private practice in a working class, ethnically diverse area south of San Francisco, dea...

Examining the First World War through the lens of the American SouthHow did World War I affect the American South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did regional considerations and, more generally, southern values and culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a distinctive southern experience of WWI?Scholars considered these questions during “Dixie’s Great War,” a symposium held at the University of Alabama in October...

Hiding just behind the fragile skin of reality, like a parasite beneath the flesh, festers a world where nothing makes sense. Time doesn't move—it twitches, stalls, reverses in spasms, dragging you through the same moment again and again with subtle, sickening differences. Space twists into unnatural shapes, folding in on itself like a body contorted in agony, corridors stretching into infinity before snapping shut behind you. The very laws that govern existence—gravity, light, sound—fract...

This book explores the role and experience of African American women scholars and educators in the field of human, family, and consumer sciences. Its five sections cover careers in education, the role of historically Black colleges and universities, opportunities and challenges brought about by the internationalization of the field, opportunities for new careers paths in the human sciences, and the current and future role of technology. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds w...

Martin Smith—one of the leading voices in the modern worship movement—shares his story, his insight, and his challenge to change the world.For seventeen years, Smith held the microphone for Delirious?—the mega-selling, Dove Award-winning, Grammy-nominated band that helped bring the modern worship movement into existence. Here Martin reflects on everything from the craft of leading worship to the challenges of parenthood to how to find a place of compassion within a...

Agent Dana Cole had spent her life striving for justice. As a dedicated member of the FBI, she believed in the law's power to uphold order, to protect the innocent, and to bring down those who preyed upon the vulnerable. With her steely resolve and unyielding ethics, she had earned a reputation as one of the bureau’s most promising agents. In her mind, there was no room for compromise, no place for shades of gray—only a world painted in black and white, where she stood firmly on the side o...

Description ‘Daniel’s Uncle’ is a Middle Grade children’s book that adults will also enjoy, is the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose parents are tragically killed in a skiing accident. He ends up spending his summer holidays at an uncle’s in Scotland on the banks of Loch Ness. His uncle is a bit eccentric but extremely clever and Daniel slowly begins to enjoy his time there. He discovers more and more out about his uncle and thus a mad adventure begins where he finds a lost City, a ni...

Most parents hear about the 3 day potty training method and picture a single miracle weekend. You block off Friday through Sunday, your toddler runs around without pants, and by Monday they are wearing big kid underwear and waving goodbye to diapers forever. There is real value in that promise, and the intensive 3 day approach can absolutely work. But the version shared online is often incomplete. It sells the weekend and stays quiet about week 2, week 3, and the very normal moments when y...

There are two amazing forces that exist in the world: Compassion for those in need and Art that helps us see beyond ourselves. The Art of Compassion brilliantly brings the two together by gathering the top songwriters in Christian music to help raise money for relief and suffering around the planet.Legendary Christian worship songwriters Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, Darlene Zschech, Israel Houghton, Andy Park, Tim Hughes, and many others have each...