The Burntwood Anthology is a collection of six stories of dark fiction from Minnesota Book Award Finalist David Loring Nash (In Wells' Time, Unsolicited Press, 2024). It is a braided narrative of Northwoods horror, eerie introspection, subtle witchcraft, and self-proclaimed kings getting what they deserve. The collection explores topics ranging from hubris and revenge to commentaries on the fluidity of sexuality and dating in the digital age.

Blasphemy is the battleground where religious and secular worlds come into conflict. It has a history which reaches into issues of religious belief, freedom of expression, and is bound up with the growth and development of new media. This title draws together a variety of primary sources relating to blasphemy from the Enlightenment onwards.

Sergeant Davis had been in the US Marines for 7 years when he stumbled into a knife fight outside the local bar. He ended up killing the wrong alien. Now, as a human that interfered with a galactic plot and killed a Confederation enforcer, his actions sentenced earth to die.His only choice, desert the Corps and take the punishment on himself.Join William Tell Davis as he saves Earth from a plot to destroy Earth by creating a secret military force called the Legion.

Pete is an adventurous T-Rex and his best friend Charley is an energetic Triceratops. These two boys are about to be very surprised. A day that has started out very boring will certainly not end up that way. Something completely unexpected is about to unfold in the dusty Western town of Bone Valley. A crook and his gang are on the loose!Sheriff Herb and his close friend Jerry are a pair of cowboy dinosaurs living in the Wild West. Its a mostly untamed land filled with mystery, and ...

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of crime and the law in historical context. The methodology used unpacks the wider historiographical and contextual issues related to each thematic area and facilit...

This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social and ancient history, as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies.Honor and shame in Western History brings together 14 texts of interdisciplinary scholars from Europe and North America. It covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in historic...

More than 150 years have passed since the apocalypse that nearly destroyed the Earth. Today, the planet is a torn remnant of its former glory, ravaged by nuclear fallout and mutagens. New lifeforms – Mutants and Synthetics – challenge True Humanity for dominance, while warring factions compete for survival and supremacy, and all must carve out their place in this brutal landscape, or else perish as billions before them.Scrappers is a skirmish miniatures game set in the wastelands, ...

She came to Silver Creek Ranch for peace.She never expected to find love in the arms of the local vet.After losing everything in the military—her fiancé, her identity, and her hard-won reputation—Melah Battle was desperate for a fresh start. Silver Creek Ranch offered a quiet escape and a place to rebuild. But peace was hard to hold onto when the past refused to let go.Ridge Harvey, the local veterinarian, wasn't l...

Now in its fourth edition, The Brain and Behavior introduces the field of neurobiology of human behavior to a wide audience, from graduate students to professionals in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology. This comprehensive resource focuses on locating human behaviors to specific regions of the brain, aiming to make a complex topic visually accessible through the inclusion of clear and focused illustrations. This important new edition emphasises recent developments in our u...

The histories of the first three SS corps are well known—the actions of I, II, and III (Germanic) SS-Panzerkorps and their subordinate divisions, including the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend, Hohenstaufen, Frundsberg, and Nordland divisions, have been thoroughly documented and publicized.Overlooked in this pantheon is another SS corps that never fought in the west or in Berlin but one that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front d...

An assessment of current trends in Marxist anthropology, thiscollection of essays reflects both the unifying force of Marxist thoughtand the diversity of contemporary anthropology. Linked by a commonapproach-a shared commitment to Marxist analysis-the contributorslook at a variety of phenomena, including the problems of labor andwork, in terms of a coherent theory of Marxism. Examining political,economic, and ethnic situations, the authors discuss social structures,ideology, and class form...

"From a Hugo Award-winning author comes the third dramatized audiobook in this action-packed sci-fi caper, starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder.Fergus is back on Earth at last, trying to figure out how to live a normal life. However, it seems the universe has other plans for him. When his cousin sends him off to help out a friend, Fergus accidently stumbles across a piece of an ancient alien artifact that some very powerful people seem to think me...