John Seraph's life is jeopardized when he begins looking for a missing woman and learns she was involved with one of his brothers and a New York State Senator.Family Ties recounts how John Seraph is asked by a former classmate to help find his missing sister, because John's father is Stefano Angelo, head of the local organized crime family. John has not seen or dealt with his family in over three years since he walked away from them over moral differences about the criminal organiz...

They say the holidays are murder and for John Seraph it's the truth. In this eight story anthology John deals with mysteries & murders before & after the events in Family Ties, Family Plots, & the upcoming Family Education.Killer Holidays is an eight-story anthology where John deals with a headless motorcyclist in All Hallow's Evil; a murdered co-worker in The Fight Before Christmas. In Fashion Statement John must clear his sister of a murder charge, then a mysterious secret admire...

As Grandmother Earth retaliates against the ravages of industrial greed, natural disasters ravage the land, calling forth the one who would stand as a symbol of unity and protector of life. Alex, a seeker of his past, finds his future rewritten when he is imbued with powers that transcend human understanding—powers foretold by Native American legends.The White Buffalo Calf Woman’s prophecy of a golden era hangs in the balance as Alex faces Regino Segel, a billionaire industrialist ...

When college student Jacob Ragnar is found shot to death, suspicion immediately falls on Professor Burke Kendall. After some time, John Seraph begins to investigate, leading to threats against him, and a murder attempt on his life.Meanwhile, John’s old friend, Denise, has asked for his help with a delicate situation she’s in. A psychotic sadist, who happens to work for John’s father, is stalking one of her employees, an escort. This turns into a bigger problem for John than he can ...

What happens when an ordinary man gains the power to reshape reality itself? How dangerous can a seemingly harmless scientific breakthrough become? And what waits for humanity in the dark spaces between worlds, where survival is never guaranteed and the unknown is always watching?Lost Sci-Fi Books 321 Through 340 delivers another remarkable collection of Golden Age science fiction from some of the most imaginative writers ever to put words on paper. These twenty stories transport y...

This book examines how the logistical and technological demands of the Second World War fundamentally restructured the modern corporate landscape. It explores the transition from artisanal production to the standardized mass manufacturing systems that paved the way for global supply chain management. Readers will learn how military strategies like operational research and crisis-driven innovation were adapted into civilian business practices to drive rapid scaling and market dominance. By ...

China's rise in the global arena is undeniably altering the global status quo. Its rise is closely linked to and reflected in its rising dependence on imported oil, adroit soft power, economic prowess and corresponding impressive economic growth, its military modernization, and its strategic engagement of the world as an alternative model of political and economic development. As the status quo changes, the United States theoretically becomes less influential politically, economically, and...

Future Oil Demands of China, India, and Japan examines how Chinese oil energy will likely shape future Sino-Indian and Sino-Japanese relations under conditions of dependency and non-dependency, and whether competition or cooperation for scarce energy resources will result. The author lists and describes three possible Chinese oil energy futures or scenarios (Competitive Dependency, Competitive Surplus, and Cooperative Surplus) using Scenario Analysis and the PRINCE Method to subsequently e...

This book examines China’s bilateral relations with its established suppliers of crude petroleum and on occasion, petroleum gas products including liquefied natural gas (LNG) based on a five- dimensional framework: political-diplomatic relations, economic-trade relations, military- security relations, cultural relations, and petroleum-energy relations. A five-dimensional approach is comprehensive in nature and offers a complete understanding of China’s complex relationships rather than loo...

The Handbook of the Study of Play brings together in two volumes thinkers whose diverse interests at the leading edge of scholarship and practice define the current field. Because play is an activity that humans have shared across time, place, and culture and in their personal developmental timelines—and because this behavior stretches deep into the evolutionary past—no single discipline can lay claim to exclusive rights to study the subject. Thus this handbook features the thinking of evo...

This comparative volume provides a comprehensive cross-national account of media coverage and public attitudes toward migration both within and into the European Union.Using empirical research from across Germany, Hunary, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, Media and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most prominent social and political topics of the decade in Europe. Drawing on a large scale, cross-national ...

Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an edited volume that explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse. The focus of the shared inquiry are various films comprising the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and corresponding Netflix series. The contributors explore various religious themes and how they intersect with culture through the canon on the MCU. The first p...