On the heels of her runaway hits The Fixer and The Red Hot Fix, T. E. Woods ratchets up the tension with her newest explosive thriller in the fast-paced Justice series.The killer won’t come for you, you fool. He’ll come for me*.*Detective Mort Grant of the Seattle PD has finally decided to sell. The home where he and his late wife raised two kids feels too large and too full of old memories. His son is married and raising a family...

All her life, Midwest restaurateur Sydney Richardson has been searching for answers about her past. Now, in this riveting thriller, the truth hits home—with a vengeance.Billy Tremble thought he had finally made it out of the skids. He was happy to share his good fortune with his less fortunate friends . . . and that’s why he ended up dead.Sydney Richardson’s enjoying a rare night out in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, when she learns that one o...

The Devil's Elixirs is the confessional manuscript of the monk Medardus, whose discovery of a forbidden potion propels him into desire, crime, and fugitive wandering across baroque Europe. Hoffmann splices Gothic sensationalism with psychological inquiry, multiplying doubles, misrecognitions, and ominous coincidences that unsettle identity and guilt. Braided plots and inset tales, indebted to Lewis's The Monk and German Romantic framing, exploit monastic spaces and relic-cults to blur mira...

4th edition of this classic Ecology textComputational methods have largely been replaced by descriptions of the available softwareIncludes procedure information for R software and other freely available software systemsNow includes web references for equipment, software and detailed methodologies

The Essential Gothic & Supernatural Omnibus – 6 Classic Horror Fiction presents an enthralling tapestry of dark imagination and spectral encounters, spanning the height of literary horror's formative era. This anthology collates an impressive array of narratives that masterfully weave elements of the gothic and supernatural. Offering a diverse spectrum of terror, the collection showcases a breadth of narrative styles and haunting themes—from the phantasmagoric to the macabre, and the refle...

The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradigm that facilitates the development and application of ideas, theories, and methods that do not fit within the confines of mainstream scholarship. Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in ...

Over thirty courageous women joined together to tell a small piece of their autobiography that had a profound impact on their lives. Within these pages, the authors have poured their hearts and souls into their story by unveiling a time in their life where they had to find the deep inner strength, faith, and determination to see the beauty in their mess. They are stories of pain, healing, perseverance, and victory. They are their stories for HIS glory!

Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary maternity both within and in light of these late-twentieth century understandings. Employing a variety of femin...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

This open access book explores synergies between two of the most ambitious high technology challenges of the twenty-first century—lunar settlement and nuclear fusion energy. Governance arrangements for the Moon are weak, and the world is in a period of intense geopolitical competition. In both the space and fusion sectors, private enterprise is taking the lead where once national laboratories and public sector technology developers were dominant.This book envisages a scenario where...

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural habitat. It also looks at the environmental impact of each species, as well as current and future...