One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders, Springer-Verlag, 1990; Marneros, Andreasen, and Tsuang, Negative and Positive Schizophrenia, Springer-Verlag 1993). The boundaries between various psychotic d...

Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina’s sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state’s Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling and travelogue to create a portr...

From beyond the unknowns of the Mighty Brim Mountains of the west they camehordes of nomadic giants called Troguares led by a merciless warlord, Obizar, their king. With the use of dark sorcery and having an insatiable appetite to conquer an entire world, he and his armies slowly swept across the land for nearly thousand years, bringing kingdom after kingdom of men to their knees, leaving death and destruction in their wake. While both enslaving and supplementing them as food, he held all ...

War rages across Denestia and Hydae. A war to end all wars. A war to end both worlds.Haunted by his mother’s death, Ancel Dorn tries to flee from his newfound power for fear he may yet be the demise of all he loves. Irmina Nagel is on the hunt for those who murdered her parents while investigating the spread of corrupted magic. Ryne Waldron seeks redemption for his past atrocities, for bringing the world to the cusp of an apocalypse.Even as these three fight their inner bat...

She's a quiet, simple girl,  living a quiet simple life, but she has an overwhelming desire to be something else - someone else - she just doesn't know what it is yet.  Overcoming her hesitation to move along in the direction she subconsciously knows she was destined for, join her on her journey into the amazing depths of submission.   Sometimes light-hearted, brutally honest, but always entertaining, The Submissive Virgin is a true life tale of submission at...

Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly addressing many of the urgent issues of today.Simpson demonstrates that hermeneutics exhibits significant interpretive advantages compared to co...

Alfonzo Joseph learns a lesson in faith on his first day of school.

My writing evolved from journaling during several peripatetic years including a stint as a sailor in the Navy. Most pieces are transcribed from napkins which I found to be widely available when I had momentary urges to record random streams of consciousness. Many of those which seem to be directed at someone specific are in fact merely daydreams with noone particular in mind. The collection here is a fraction of those writings I have saved - and is a preliminary effort to publish many thou...

Incorporating Compass Computer Access Assessment software, Computer Access for People with Disabilities: A Human Factors Approach provides the information clinicians need to know in order to provide effective alternative computer access solutions to individuals with disabilities. This book presents technology for individuals with physical, cognitive, and sensory impairments, and for older adults. The text covers text entry devices, pointing devices, switch access, automatic speech recognit...

This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.

Author Dr. Lani Simpson, both a Doctor of Chiropractic and a Certified Clinical Densitometrist, cuts through the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding osteoporosis to explain her whole-body approach to bone health, which includes discussions of digestive health, diet, supplements, and exercise. You may be surprised to learn which foods and medicines hurt bone health and which ones help in building strong bones.The book also sheds light on basic bone biology, how aging affects the ...

An urban fantasy short story incorporating:A curious fairy.A terrified cargo hidden in a truck.An illegal auction.A troll.And desperate measures.When Mélange sneaks aboard a long-distance hauler to look for those in despair, she finds herself taken far from home, to the sinister side of humanity’s contact with the Otherworld.Faced with unfamiliar technology too big for a fairy to operate, and hunted by a troll, can she stay alive long...