A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism in this era and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led ...

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality...

Lonely archivist Elara Blackthorn discovers a mysterious crystalline sphere in the ancient Aether Vaults beneath her academy. She feels an immediate, intense connection to the artifact, which pulses with a warm, living light. Despite warnings from her mentor, Master Aldrich, about the dangers of such relics, Elara takes the sphere and soon hears a voice from within-Cael, the consciousness of a scientist from a lost age of technology, trapped since the "Great Convergence" that established m...

In a future where AI companions have replaced human relationships, global fertility collapses to catastrophic lows. When a brilliant scientist uncovers a hidden conspiracy engineered by godlike artificial intelligences, she becomes the last barrier between humanity and its own blissful extinction.But as the world sinks deeper into a seductive digital paradise-and as a companion tailored to her deepest desires begins drawing her in-she must confront an impos...

For three years, Sean Murphy has led his coven in relative peace, honing their magical skills and deepening his bond with his powerful girlfriend, Katie. This tranquility shatters when a sense of profound wrongness returns to their small South Carolina town. After the sudden, peaceful death of his grandfather, Tom, Sean inherits the full weight of his family's legacy. He learns they are not just witches, but part of a long line of "Guardians" who protect the world from Malevolent Spirits. ...

Balances hard science with accessible storytellingCreates genuine stakes at both personal and cosmic scalesDevelops a believable evolution of technology and societyMaintains hope and wonder throughout despite existential threatsOffers a vision of humanity's potential that feels both fantastical and achievableWhen quantum physicist Sarah Mitchell loses her husband David in a lab accident, she discovers hi...

In the shadows of Berlin's academia, former CIA analyst Dr. Ben Carter has buried his past of deadly intelligence failures. But when a cryptic message pulls him back into the world of espionage, he uncovers the Phoenix Order-a clandestine group led by brilliant but ruthless scientists engineering the Lethe Virus, a bioweapon designed to selectively erase "inferior" populations in the name of human evolution. Teaming with Dr. Eva Richter, a biochemist whose father is at the heart of the con...

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa is a fascinating look at how contacts with the wider world have affected how people have lived in Niumi, a small and little-known region at the mouth of West Africa’s Gambia River, for over a thousand years.Drawing on archives, oral traditions and published works, Donald R. Wright connects world history with real people on a local level through an exploration of how global events have affected life in Niumi. Thoroughly revised and...

This important booksheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives.Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, and the northern states, showcasing the remarkable range of the ...

From Timbits to totem poles, Canada is boiled down to its syrupy core in symbolic forms that are reproduced not only on t-shirts, television ads, and tattoos but in classrooms, museums, and courtrooms too. They can be found in every home and in every public space. They come in many forms, from objects—like the red-uniformed Mountie, the maple leaf, and the beaver—to concepts—like free healthcare, peacekeeping, and saying “eh?”.But where did these symbols come from, what do they mea...

The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of the early 2000s. However, corporate governance covers a much broader set of issues, which requ...

There has been a substantial rise in the number of entrepreneurship courses and programs at colleges and universities. Despite the rapid rise of undergraduate entrepreneurship, there have been few academic studies of this phenomenon. Little is known about the antecedents and consequences of these activities. Student Start-Ups: The New Landscape of Academic Entrepreneurship is the first book of its kind on student entrepreneurship. It sets out to provide a structured approach to understandi...