John Jordan is getting married and you are invited! Join the wedding celebration of the year in this short story from New York Times Bestselling and award-winning novelist Michael Lister

A man walks into a bar and never walks out again.How does someone vanish from the face of the earth —especially with so many people and security cameras watching?Sawyer Payne and Kace Mason, two very different amateur detectives must put aside their sexual tension to see if they can somehow solve the case the authorities haven't been able to. But powerful and evil people don't want the truth coming out and will do anything to stop these two new sleuths from exposing their p...

Tiana Capri, a young pre-teen girl from a good family goes missing on Christmas Eve. She vanishes without a trace from her locked house while her mom and brother sleep nearby, leaving no clues and little hope of finding her alive. Can John Jordan find her before it's too late? For the first time in his career, he enlists the help of his daughter, Johanna Jordan, who is a friend of Tiana's and who might just hold the key to discovering what happened to Tiana and the sinister forces behind h...

You can do more of what matters most. Starting now. Here's how.New York Times Bestselling author and inspirational speaker Michael Lister has spent a lifetime trying to get the most out of life. In this informative, inspiring, and practical book he shares his methods for living a life of meaning, purpose, and productivity.Here is your guide to doing and experiencing MORE. But not just more—more of what truly matters most.

From Michael Lister, the acclaimed author of “The Meaning of Life in Movies” and “The Meaning of Jesus,” comes a meditation on mindful, meaningful living not to be missed.“You and I can have deeply, profoundly fulfilling and meaningful lives, but not automatically, not effortlessly, not without mindfulness and intention.” Michael Lister

This book covers new conceptual, methodological, and empirical issues that will progress debate on Vernacular Security Studies (VSS) and the value of studying ordinary articulations of (in)security. Bringing together established and emerging scholars, it offers a timely and much needed engagement with this explicitly critical – and increasingly prominent – framework in security research. Demonstrating its value in different geographical, thematic, and historical contexts these experts cons...

This edited collection offers new engagement with important case studies and contexts that have been neglected in the field of vernacular security research. With cutting edge scholarship from fieldwork and primary research in Georgia, Tunisia, Bangladesh, the Pacific Islands, and beyond, the book's international focus takes vernacular security research far beyond its traditional focus on migration and counterterrorism policy in the global North. Engaging with unusual and untouched sources ...

This book examines the ways in which the views of the public inhabit the counter-terrorism policy space, with a focus on the UK case.Drawing insights from Critical Terrorism Studies, Critical Security Studies and studies of public opinion, the book develops an argument that the relationship between public opinion is complex, iterative and mutually instantiating. Rather than public opinion and counter-terrorism policy existing in a simple, uni-directional causal relationship, the bo...

Written by a team of experts, this text introduces all of the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state, including pluralism, Marxism, institutionalism, feminism, green theory and more. A brand new 'issues' section enables readers to apply these key concepts and theoretical approaches to important developments in the state today.This new edition offers:- Coverage of all key empirical and theoretical developments in the field, with analysis of the impac...

It’s not too late to discover the lost gospel of Jesus and begin to live by it, to change our direction, to once again become people of the way. We could, with humility, embody compassion and justice. We could so completely trust God that we dare to share what we have with those in need, love those who hate us, bless those who curse us.What’s been lost can be found again. Do we dare? Can we hear the call clearly and be so moved we must respond? If we sense that something profound a...

From the pine-tree lined rural highways of North Florida through the tourist traps of Central Florida to the tropical, international environs of SOBE, come stories of sun-faded noir, orange pulp served up freshly squeezed by the Sunshine State’s very best practitioners.

“'The Meaning of Life in Movies' is a Rashomon ride. Michael Lister's perceptions of film and the life it captures are guaranteed to be unique and intriguing. He sees things you just don't see and leaves you scratching your head as to why you didn't. Read this book and you won't be disappointed.” ---Michael Connelly