“A compelling call for further research into the potential of ibogaine therapy.”—Kirkus Reviews• Explores how ibogaine works, including how it boosts cellular function,increases neuroplasticity, and interrupts habitual behavior patterns and trauma• Discusses the ritual roots of iboga in the Bwiti spiritual tradition of Gabon• Shares case studies showing ibogaine’s healing effects for addiction recovery, traumatic brain injury (TBI), ...

Evidence-based policing (EBP) has become a key perspective for practitioners and researchers concerned with the future of policing. This volume provides both a review of where evidence-based policing stands today and a consideration of emerging trends and ideas likely to be important in the future. It includes comparative and international contributions, as well as researcher and practitioner perspectives. While emphasizing traditional evidence-based methods and approaches, the book also i...

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier worl...

Something Wicked Magazine was a monthly Horror and Science Fiction short story magazine publishing some of the great new voices in the horror and science fiction genres.This is en ebook version of Issue 01, which has been out of print since 2007.Featuring fiction from Fayyaad Hendricks, Award-winning author Sarah Lotz, Jurgens De Lange, Jonathan Perry, Evan Morris, Ryan Saunders and Domenic Pisanti.A 6000-word Doctor Who special by Mark Sykes and an e...

“A compelling call for further research into the potential of ibogaine therapy.”—Kirkus Reviews• Explores how ibogaine works, including how it boosts cellular function,increases neuroplasticity, and interrupts habitual behavior patterns and trauma• Discusses the ritual roots of iboga in the Bwiti spiritual tradition of Gabon• Shares case studies showing ibogaine’s healing effects for addiction recovery, traumatic brain injury (TBI), ...

The Last Days Are Here. How Will You Protect, Prepare, and Empower Your Family?Are you raising children in an increasingly dangerous, deceptive, and apocalyptic world? Do you wonder how to protect the next generation from spiritual darkness, cultural collapse, and the schemes of the enemy? Have you felt the weight of raising your household while watching society unravel before your eyes?But God hasn’t left you without a plan! Scripture offers clear answers ...

Addressed to a petrified Victorian society, this spine-chilling volume, long of out print and here republished in a modern edition, brings together a collection of unnerving stories of live burials and narrow escapes. An assortment of anecdotes based on historical materials and real accounts, Premature Burial was written to reassure or warn nineteenth-century readers concerned about being buried alive. This was seemingly an alarmingly frequent occurrence; one of the book's authors himself,...

In the aftermath of the cold-blooded assassinations that killed her parents and shattered the Vatta intersteller shipping empire, Kylara Vatta sets out to avenge the killings and salvage the family business. Ky soon discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness. The only hope against such powerful evil is for all the space merchants to band together. Unfortunately, because she commands a ship that once belonged to a notorious pirate, Ky is met wi...

Picking up exactly where Playing Gods 1: Isolation left off, Playing Gods 2: Adaptation brings the zehuderan warriors Xriah and Vylis to the world of Gravios. A far cry from the last plane where the two battled, Gravios is an ocean world of cybernetically augmented humans and post-apocalyptic sea vessels. All land on Gravios has been completely submerged into the depths, the sea level elevated by the planet-swallowing marine creature known as the Grava. In this arena of hostile waters and ...

A fast-paced LA crime thriller from Edgar Award–winning author Thomas Perry; now a major motion picture starring Russell Crowe and Aaron Paul.Aging strip club owner Manco Kapak is ready to move on from his life on the edge of LA's criminal underworld. When he gets robbed at gunpoint, his house gets burgled, and two of his cars are destroyed, he is enraged. Kapak sends his men to scour the streets for the culprit. The search turns up Joe Carver, innocent of the susp...

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education's purpose.While the search for meaning and purpose appears to be a constant throughout human history, there are characteristics about our current time period that make this search different from any other previous time, particularly for college students. In this book, Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron R. Johnson explore college students' search for meaning a...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within t...