What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on...

What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs to belligerent birds, the stories in this collection enter the rabbit hole to explore its hidden corners and winding ways. Through all the variety, what they have in common is originality, creativ...

The second installment of this saga of gangland lore follows gregarious gangster, Michael Hardy, further down his twisted criminal path. The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to twelve years in the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother's counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her love and respect.Once he's released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts ...

This compelling novel follows serial mass shooter Tyler Stone as he sows division and calamity across the United States. The narrative is interspersed with incisive and trenchant political commentary about a country that is on the precipice of a modern civil war. The book's protagonist is a fascinating enigma, as he exhibits the behavior of a deranged sociopath while taking on the mantle of galvanizing his fellow Americans to unite against a common enemy. By Targeting specific demographics...

In this irreverent examination of the alien abduction mythos Mike has been abducted by aliens. He awakens not knowing how he got where he is. Bob, a wisecracking “alien,” greets him. Bob looks exactly like a human being. After much questioning, Mike discovers that people from Bob’s planet have been abducting humans for thousands of years. As part of that conversation, Mike learns that the reason Bob looks so much like Earth humans is that Earth had been colonized by Bob’s people. Due to ci...

William Bennet Sterling and his best friend Jacob Brown enlist in the famed seventh cavalry and find themselves fighting for their lives in and around the area of the Little Bighorn Valley. This book covers Custer's operation from the point of leaving Fort Abraham Lincoln all the way to the historic massacre and 36 hour siege on Reno Hill. Everything is factual right down to the wounds received and the point in the battle they received them. Only Jake and Will are fictional.

Air Traffic Control is one of the most misunderstood occupations in the world, and yet it effects anyone that has ever...or will ever fly in an aircraft. This book tells it all. you will never look to the sky in the same way again.

This work has all the gripping excitement of the American west in postbellum America and the operations of the seventh Cavalry in and around the Little Bighorn valley. Heart stopping cavalry charges, desperate solders surrounded and cut off from the rest of the command, forced to fight their way out, the Indigenous struggle to freely live a life they had lived for thousands of years, and the gut-wrenching sadness the futility of war producesExcept for Will and Jake, all the charact...

Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees won the 1932 World Series. Afterwards, Ruth and three others, went to Springfield Illinois to do some fishing. As they were returning, Ruth and friends, gave out souvenirs up and down the road know as, 'The Mother Road', Route 66. After 90 years, autographed baseballs from that trip start becoming targets with arson, theft, and murder. State Police detectives, Beth and Joe Clayton are tasked with finding out who is behind the crimes. The pair were put tog...

"The Pariahs" is an undercover thriller that sees two detectives forced into witness protection after breaking the blue code. Living now as husband and wife, the Pariahs assume their new identities and are set loose in central Illinois. Their investigation takes them to strip clubs, college campuses, diners, a casino, and a river boat. Will two protagonists, with different styles, learn to work and live together? The case has stumped local police for over a year. A young woman, strangled, ...

William Benet Sterling and his best friend Jacob (Jake) Brown, two Kansas farm boys, realize their dream of riding with the famed seventh cavalry joining the unit at Fort Abraham Lincoln. The two teenagers gallop headlong into battle with Major Reno and A company as they mount a breath-taking charge against the Sioux and Cheyenne village along the river. They live the terror of being forced back into a small grove of cottonwood trees helplessly watching wounded friends being butchered and ...