All Souls' Day: In Madrid, Canadian Dan Durand is approached by shadowy strangers offering him a job. Once a high-achiever, Dan has hit rock bottom and is living a makeshift existence. His under-the-table assignment is to trail a suspected criminal-a woman with a mysterious history. Dan begins to sense that their stories may intersect more than he at first realized. He also realizes that he has become unwittingly involved in a life-and-death chase. When pursuer and pursued eventually come ...

For almost a century the islands of Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of the Stewart earls, father and son, a rule remarkable for its infamous reputation in island history. Robert Stewart was an illegitimate son of James V, king of Scots, who seized power in Orkney in the 1560s and was created earl of Shetland in 1581. Robert's son was the extraordinary and ill-starred Earl Patrick, 'Black Patie', whose execution for treason in 1615 brought the era to a close. This book has its found...

In 2001 Peter Anderson was 37 and had the perfect life: very much in love and recently married with an infant daughter he adored; an intelligent and sensitive man working a job he loved as a popular secondary school teacher and a talented sportsman training for a marathon...The bubble was about to burst.Peter was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a physically crippling disease that destroys nerve cells controlling muscular movement. He was told that over time his ...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 1.The year is 2012. In CERN, the huge research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, a crucial experiment is reaching its final stage. Its objective: to send a manned space probe to a distant planet, in order to find a cure for Earth's dwindling mineral resources. But then, something unforeseen happens. Lost in an unknown place, the crew of the SURVIVOR is revived from a deep-freeze sleep. Three of its members have no recollecti...

In an era that oscillates regularly between nihilism and the erosion of moral vision, on the one hand, and pseudo-gnostic myths of self-apotheosis on the other, the classical Christian claim of human participation in the divine as the story of the transformation of human life in its physical, moral, spiritual, and eschatological dimensions takes on radical, counter-cultural color. It is an affirmation that offers hope and meaning for humanity secured by God’s participation in human life th...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. This is the Collector's pack including all 12 episodes.The year is 2012. In CERN, the huge research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, a crucial experiment is reaching its final stage. Its objective: to send a manned space probe to a distant planet, in order to find a cure for Earth's dwindling mineral resources. But then, something unforeseen happens. Lost in an unknown place, the crew of the SURVIVOR is revived from a deep-freeze s...

In a world where instant gratification reigns supreme, patience is often overlooked and undervalued. "Peeling an Orange" by Stephen Peter Anderson delves into the essence of patience, offering a profound exploration of its significance in our lives.Through a tapestry of personal anecdotes, historical references, and philosophical insights, Stephen takes readers on a journey to rediscover the transformative power of patience.This enforced stillness, though challenging, revea...

Take a drive into the literary landscapes of Colorado. Meet Kent Haruf's bachelor farmers in the Eastern Plains, ford the South Platte with Mark Twain, rail against nuclear weapons with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, hitch a ride to Denver with Jack Kerouac, climb the highest peaks with Isabella Bird and Enos Mills, explore the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde with Willa Cather.Reading Colorado, a high-octane road trip through the diverse literary landscapes of the Centenni...

At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways Spaniards tried to survive, the regime's reluctance to accept international relief, the politics of cooki...

A frigid, gray winter in Berlin: On the night after the matriarch of a small group of close friends is found mysteriously dead in a river, five large photographic artworks created by one of the group are stolen from a glitzy gallery. Death and theft trigger searches and discoveries, personal and historical, by each of the once-glamorous but now aging friends. Their personal quests spread them from Berlin to locations across northern Europe. Secrecy and revelation, perception and misinterpr...

Black Mirror, Netflix’s dystopian anthology, probes what it means to be human in a technological world. While the show raises interesting, if not disturbing, questions, it refrains from giving answers, putting the onus on viewers to continue the conversation. Accordingly, Theology and Black Mirror engages questions and prominent themes in the show with resources from the Christian tradition, including the academic disciplines of biblical studies, theology, philosophy, and ethics.

The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to 'unfit' parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile-court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal that severely curtailed the p...