Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and rac...

Weird Fiction Quarterly continues the tradition of bringing you the finest in 500 word flash-fiction! (We dare you to find better!)In this, our fifth anthology, we bring you 41 wintry tales of weird wonder guaranteed to make you want to pull up a chair before a warm fire and wrap yourself in blanket and cat, because these stories are cold and will chill you to the bone. You won’t have time to do that, though.This is, after all, Weird Fiction Quarterly.You can never ...

Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world’s first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams’ commitments to faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its conception of itself. Through crisp essays that show how Americans demolished old prejudices while invent...

David Dirksen inherited two things from his father; a truck, and a frightening ability. After a member of his family is unfairly imprisoned in Russia, he devises a plan for her escape.

Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national security problems. This second edit...

'Exciting, entertaining . . . This series is swiftly becoming a personal favourite!' The Eloquent Page'You owe it to yourself to read this!' Reader reviewFans of Ben Aaronovitch and Jim Butcher will revel in this fiery tale of magic, mayhem and modern-day mythology.Ben Garston has broken the Lore. Now it's time to face the music . . .Life isn't treating Red Ben Garston well. He's lost every...

'Magnificent' Daily Mail'A thrilling fusion of myth and modernity' Kevin Hearne on Chasing EmbersThe Lore is over. For Ben Garston, the fight is just beginning.The uneasy truce between the human and the mythical world has shattered. Betrayed by his oldest friend, with a tragic death on his hands, there isn't enough whiskey in England to wash away the taste of Ben's guilt. But for a one-time guardia...

**After being stranded in the remote Alps of Europe, a shipwrecked crew of knights are stalked by both human and monstrous threats in this medieval horror that’s perfect for fans of The Terror and Between Two Fires.There are strange things in the mountains, my lord. Things older and darker than our Christian God. And hungrier.**1192 AD: Jean is a teller of tales meant to bring sense to a world emerging from the darkest of ages steeped in ...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The Terms & Conditions of Kindness" by James Bennett"That Maddening Heat" by Ray Cluley (reprint)"The Debt I Owe" by Alex Sobel"Solivagant" by Angela Slatter (reprint)

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Some There Be That Shadows Kiss" by James Bennett"Dusk" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"You, the Listener, on a Heavenly Trip" by Françoise Harvey"W is for Whispers" by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Sulta" by James Bennett"Belly-Slitter" by H. Pueyo"Y is for Yesterday" by Steve Rasnic Tem"The Cat" by Morana Violeta (translated by Clara Madrigano)

"Behold the Miraculous!" written by an acclaimed artist, is a collection of seventy-two short essays that uncover the artist's beautifully inspiring and metaphysically insightful perspective on life. Numerous full-color illustrations created by the author are included. Throughout the book, there is a recurring theme that emphasizes the unity and interconnectedness of all aspects of reality, ranging from the vastness of the universe to the tiniest subatomic particles. "Behold the Miraculous...