This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology. It demonstrates that not-believing—like not-knowing—is a worthy and distinct subject and not merely a vacuum where belief (like knowledge) is lacking. Several contemporary issues appear repeatedly in the book, such as conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism, climate change denial, and fake news. Each chapter begins with a vignette on one of these topics and...

Patent drafters charge $75 to $100 per sheet to prepare drawings -- but you can draw them yourself! How to Make Patent Drawings is an essential guide for inventors who want to complete a crucial step in the patenting process themselves -- creating formal patent drawings that comply with the strict rules of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (and save hundreds or even thousands of dollars). Written by two experts in the patent field, How to Make Patent Drawings shows you how to: make util...

Could you save your dog's life? YES! You could!Could you relieve your dog's pain and suffering? YES! You could!All living creatures can become sick or injured. When it happens, and it is your dog, what do you do?A visit to your veterinarian may well be needed but often it is possible to do a simple diagnosis yourself before deciding.This book provides an essential guide to checking your dog's condition when something appears to be wrong or your dog has suffere...

Start NOW and discover how to quickly and easily train your dog using simple science and a step-by-step system that will produce successful results that your dog will love, and you will too!How you can train your dog, young or old, Yorkshire Terrier or Wolfhound… and get astonishing results.Your starting point is not important, what is important is that you start NOW.You may have just collected your new pup and you know that good habits should start early.Maybe...

The first ever translation (from Scots to English) of George MacDonald's debut novel!"I would rather be what God chose to make me, than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about-born in God's thoughts-and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking." -Chapter XXXIVFollowing the success of David Jack's two-column "Scots-English" editions (which feature both languages ...

Featuring new illustrations by artist Carrie Stout, English translation of all Scots dialogue, and an introduction by Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society.ALEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN is George MacDonald's second Scottish novel, and the ninth to be included in this translation series. Set in the environs of the author's home town, it is a blended history of light and shade, in which floods and school thrashings are alleviated by outrageous childhoo...

Contains: The Misadventures of John Nicholson; Markheim; A Lodging for the Night; A Christmas Sermon and A Christmas PrayerIn this collection of festive gems, master tale-teller Robert Louis Stevenson mixes the humorous with the macabre, and the gifts of Fortune with the mistakes and mis-steps of erring man. His stories, sermon, and prayer remind us of the Light which came down at Christmas, and the hope of redemption that, at th...

Featuring vintage illustrations, English translation of all Scots dialogue, and an introduction by Dr. Carolyn Weber, award-winning author of Surprised by Oxford, speaker and professor at New College FranklinTHE ELECT LADY is the story of three childhood friends, whose histories become entangled with a fabled golden cup. Declared by its possessor to be the Holy Grail itself, it has by that time wormed its way into his heart, imperilling hi...

The award-winning author and Medal of Honor recipient shares an insider's history of bootcamp that's "authentic, entertaining, and often funny as hell" (Corporal Brian Dennehy, Ret.).Every American fighting man and woman share one thing in common: they have all survived basic military training. Basic tells the story of that training. Col. Jack Jacobs and co-author David Fisher recount the funny, sad, dramatic, poignant, and sometimes crazy history of how Am...

Written in 1906, Before Adam is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventure novel, this one revolves around the dreams of a young boy, dreams that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth living in prehistoric times. "These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we...

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into service as sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a har...