When a curious young explorer named Chris discovers a strange mask deep inside a forest near Marshville, his Halloween changes forever. The mysterious mask carries him to incredible worlds where every place celebrates Halloween in its own special way. Along the journey, Chris meets friendly ghosts, pumpkin dragons, talking animals, robots, and many other unforgettable friends. Each adventure teaches an important lesson.

Northern Italy, 1944: Gemmano is on the front lines of the battle for the Gothic Line, trapped between German occupation and the allied advance, as shell after shell rains down on the village.Eighteen year old Toni Mazzanti has always been considered 'odd' by the villagers, but as the battle rages and he comes to terms with his personal and spiritual development, his talents come to be viewed as gifts.With his new found confidence Toni increasingly emerges as a village lead...

In Sherwood, Halloween is the most magical day of the year. Costumes sparkle, pumpkins glow, and laughter fills every street. But just beyond the trees lives Grizelda, a lonely witch who decides to stop the celebration with tricky spells. No matter what she tries, the spirit of Sherwood grows stronger.When the neighbors discover her secret, they choose kindness instead of anger. As they listen to her story, everything begins to change. This story shows how friendship, understanding...

Product Research 101: The Essential Guide on How to Find the Perfect Niche and Product That Sells, Discover How to Find Hot Niche Markets and Winning Products That Would SellAre you looking to start your own business? That's great! If you're starting an online business, having a website is not enough to ensure success. You have to do your research and make sure that you find a paying niche that you can market products and services to. When you have a target niche, you can focus all...

Inanimation is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In Prosthesis, Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity within the body itself. In Dorsality, he explored how technology is understood to function behind or before the human. Inanimation proceeds by taking literally the idea of inanimate or inorganic forms of life. Starting from a seemingly naïve question about what it mea...

Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or perverting, the machinery of time ...

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment, etc.Originally published in 1970, this book describes another experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the community. It demon...

The events of September 11, 2001 brought terrorism to the forefront, but Al-Qaeda is not the first group to try using political violence against the United States to make Washington change its policies. In the 1980s terrorism was rampant; from Latin America to Europe and the Middle East, a host of groups demanded changes in American foreign policy and were willing to bomb, assassinate, kidnap, and hijack to pressure the government to act.The First War on Terrorism examines...

"An important contribution to the critical study of ethics . . . [for those] made curious by the controversy that . . . attends Derrida." — Booklist, on the first editionThe Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, executi...

Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortalityFrom Plato’s notion of generation to Derrida’s concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, Adam Rosenthal’s Prosthetic Immortalities shows how the dream of indefinite life has always been a technological one: a matter of prosthesis. He argues that every biological instance of perpetua...

Learn everything you need to know about running, with one of the world’s most popular running books, updated to include Jeff Galloway’s revolutionary method of training.A new runner who’s looking to begin, a high school athlete who’s preparing for track & field season, an experienced marathoner aiming to get faster—whatever your situation, if you’re interested in running, this is the book for you. Olympic athlete Jeff Galloway introduces the same training principle...

An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida.Perjury and Pardon is a two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a “problematic of lying” by stud...