Julien Wilson survived Brookside High.But surviving the Monster inside him was only the beginning.Months after the violence that left his school shattered, Julien is still confined to Havenford Adolescent Psychiatric Institute. He barely speaks. He follows the routines. He keeps the Monster buried as deeply as he can.Then he realizes he isn't the only one carrying something in the dark.Ellie Goodman has spent her life learning how to be good—how to sit corre...

What if Christian thought was thinking in the time just before the second coming of Christ? What if Christianity was residing within the living reality of Christ's horrifying question: When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on earth? In this time the days must be shortened for the sake of the elect, for even they are subject to the deception of this Luciferian apostasy. Prologue to a Metaphysics of Patmos is a metaphysical-theological thought experiment that projects Christian tho...

Silence has teeth.Julien Wilson has spent years hiding what hurts. At home, he buries his fear. At school, he lets cruelty pass without answering. But the pain he refuses to name has begun taking shape inside him.It whispers from mirrors. It laughs behind his teeth. And every lie, every denial, every truth left unspoken makes it stronger.Then Julien meets Zoe and George, two outsiders carrying monsters born from wounds of their own. Together, they form the Monsters ...

the centuries wrap round us emerges from John Paul Lederach’s lived experience as a conciliator, mediator, and social change activist. He writes from a lifetime of vocational accompaniment alongside communities who find extraordinary ways to engage, transform, and transcend repeating patterns of violence. In this wisdom-full text, Lederach offers a much-needed message for the practices of hope and dignity in midst of today’s fragmented and too often fear-driven world. By way of personal st...

The Wit and Humor of America gathers ten volumes of American comic writing into a capacious archive of satire, burlesque, dialect sketch, parable, anecdote, verse, and social observation. Moving from early republican wit through nineteenth-century regionalism and the modern magazine sketch, it reveals humor as both entertainment and cultural criticism. Comic monologues, mock-heroic poems, and sharply observed tales sit beside enduring reflections on politics, manners, sentiment, class, and...

Thwart hackers by preventing, detecting, and misdirecting access before they can plant malware, obtain credentials, engage in fraud, modify data, poison models, corrupt users, eavesdrop, and otherwise ruin your dayKey FeaturesDiscover how hackers rely on misdirection and deep fakes to fool even the best security systemsRetain the usefulness of your data by detecting unwanted and invalid modificationsDevelop application code to meet the security...

This sweeping history of thirteenth century England examines how the successive reigns of two very different kings established the English way of life.In 1204, the great Angevin Empire was fragmenting under King John's rule. Unable to withstand France's invasion of Normandy, John also faced difficult relations with the papacy, and rising dissent among his barons. By the time John died in 1216, the failed Magna Carta gave way to civil conflict, and more than half of ...

You will enjoy meeting Souchy the Tomboy! She loves her male friends, and she enjoys playing and hanging out with them as well as her three older brothers. She likes the roughness of sports, male clothes, and male shoes. She really hates dresses and has made sure her mother knows just how much she hates them! But she is still a girl, and she loves her jewelry and painted nails! Her father doesn't like her playing with or hanging around the boys. He thinks boys and girls should be separated...

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke.To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contour...

Inspired by such a rich tapestry of tales, this history provides an essential introduction to the nation many regard as "The Land of Castles."Even before the construction of Edward I of England's infamous 'Iron Ring' of castles built in the wake of his invasion of Wales, castles were by no means rare in Wales. Both before and simultaneous to William the Conqueror's establishment of timber and stone fortresses in the south and borderlands, a process continued by man...

In 1051, a monk of Canterbury Cathedral made a bizarre observation in what would eventually form part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In his chronicling of the year's events, he described the establishment of a new fortification in Herefordshire by French members of the king's party. More sophisticated than the typical Saxon burh, the word provided was alien to his vocabulary. In Latin, its builders had christened it: castellum. Little did anyone at the time know, this unique building would ...

Private reflections of the Roman Catholic pope elevated to sainthood, collected from journals spanning from 1962 to 2003.As the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II shaped his times in ways few other popes could claim. This powerful and now sainted leader made headlines by conferring with heads of state, inspiring and leading fellow Catholics and other Christians, and building the foundations for making Rome the head...