Richard Diamond, Private Detective is a detective drama which was on radio from 1949 to 1953 and on television from 1957 to 1960. Dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a rather light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen (played by Virginia Gregg). It began airing on NBC on April 24, 1949, picked up Rexall as a sponsor on April 5, 1950, and continued until December 6, 1950. The shows were written by Blake Edw...

Are dark romance, paranormal gothic horror, and spice your vibe? Look no further.An abandoned French château, a home of mass murder during the French Revolution, is purchased by a grief-stricken couple hoping to convert it into a hotel to aid in their recovery. However, a powerful spirit resides within that catapults their lives down a path to madness.Written by independent author Blake Edward Andrew and narrated by Joel Terkeurst, this audiobook will leave you guessing wit...

Author Jennifer Blake-Edwards started writing as a young girl. But it was a trip to Jamaica that allowed her to find herself after college. For two months, she weathered Jamaicas rainy season by writing poetry while it rained daily for hours. It was also during this trip that she met a dark, handsome, and dimpled Caribbean man who not only ignited her love for poetry, but for warm showers and getting wet.In WET, she shares an anthology of poetry with many of the selections carrying...

Edward James Blakely was born on April 21, 1938 San Bernardino, California to a modest African, Native American family. His life mirrors a racially and socially divided post World WarII America. Ed parents and grandparents along with his uncles and aunts were social & civil rights pioneers. His autobigrphy traces how he followed th journey of civil liberty across the United States. Ed carried his famil aspirations into the White House and leading cities and nations globally to become a wor...

Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a...

In an age when the buzzword is 'sustainability', why do we continue to build unsustainable cities and regions? This book brings planners back to the centre of the debate. It shows that sustainability can no longer just apply to the subfield of planning called 'environmental planning' but has to permeate all aspects: housing, economic development, transport, regional coordination and urban design.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA collection of one hundred deeply personal stories—covering love and heartbreak, growth and resilience—brought to life by the creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @HunterProsper.Every person has a story.Dick knew that it was love at first sight when he saw Nancy across the church steps—they got married a week later and have been best friends ever since, sti...

Though the Civil War short story "An Echo of Antietam" marks a notable departure from the utopian fantasy that helped author Edward Bellamy rise to literary acclaim, it highlights similar themes of community and solidarity. In the tale, a young man signs up to fight for the Union forces. Though he is initially ambivalent about this decision, he ultimately comes to appreciate the virtue of sacrificing oneself to a just cause.

Published in 1754 amid post–Great Awakening controversy, The Freedom of the Will offers a rigorous compatibilist account of agency under divine sovereignty. Edwards distinguishes natural from moral inability and argues the will follows the strongest motive arising from one's prevailing disposition. Combining scholastic logic, scriptural exegesis, and Enlightenment precision, he contests Arminian libertarianism and clarifies necessity, contingency, and the renewal of the affections. Edwards...

The Freedom of the Will (Vol. 1-4) offers Edwards's rigorous compatibilist account: the will follows the strongest motive, and moral, not natural, necessity grounds responsibility. Defining terms with scholastic clarity, he rejects self-determining power and chance, and reconciles divine foreknowledge with accountability. Its exacting, scripture-laced prose situates the treatise within eighteenth-century Calvinist–Arminian debates and engages transatlantic interlocutors such as Daniel Whit...

The late Ken Coon spent 13 years of his life, during the 1960s and 1970s, following every lead on Bigfoot sightings that he could in the U.S., A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officer, he retired from the force to engage in his search for Sasquatch full time. This book documents the extensive research he compiled but was unable to publish before his death on July 10, 2013.According to Coon, Bigfoot lurks in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. It defies...

A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more.Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error—as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine—but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she h...