Clericalism confronts what many consider the most urgent and unresolved issue facing the Catholic Church today: the systemic failure to enact lasting reform in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis. Moving beyond surface-level explanations, this timely and courageous book draws on insights from a wide range of secular disciplines—including organizational behavior, sociology, economics, and psychology—to diagnose the deep structural and cultural forces that have allowed clerical abuse and cov...

Two sisters, both born with a Gift…Samantha leads lost spirits home,Hanna can see Beyond the VeilBut both are in terrible danger...Are you ready for two Spicy and Spooky Kindred Tales in one book? Get ready for Wicked and Wild…In "Possessed by the Wulven," Sam's ghost-hunting mission collides with skeptic R'orn, creating sparks of annoyance and attraction. She’s stuck with the huge Kindred warrior in a haunted inn, one room, and a single bed—temptation ...

Thirteen stories of magic and mystery reveal things that exist if you're prepared to scratch the surface of reality. Within these words, you will find witches, demons, ghosts, vampires, angels, werewolves, centaurs, dragons, and creatures of the night, it's a monstrous menagerie to cause delight.From thirteen different authors, we bring you tales of those things that walk among us. The inexplicable, the strange, and perhaps deranged. What lies behind the everyday mundane reality th...

As the sun rose on the morning of June 6, 2044, 100 years after the D-Day landing, it ushered in a new age of American governance devoid of politicians and political parties, administered solely by next-generation artificial Intelligence technology. Eclipsed by China a decade earlier as the dominant world power, Americans had been steadily losing faith in their form of government and vaunted Constitution. When a crazy national crisis descends out of the blue, it precipitates a complete col...

Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and w...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 301 through 320 takes you deep into the golden age of science fiction, where every story opens a new doorway into strange futures, impossible inventions, alien encounters, and the mysteries of time itself. This collection gathers twenty unforgettable tales from some of the greatest names ever to write science fiction, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg, Lester del Rey, and John W. Campbell...

Sometimes called the “literature of ideas,” science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction’s focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms, and parallel universes cannot help but invoke the perennial questions of political life, including the nature of a just social order and who should rule; freedom, free will, and autonomy; and the advantages and disadvantages of progress. Rather than offering a reading of a work inspired by a pa...

World-changing inventions have revolutionized the way we live our lives today. In the past 300 years, mankind's ingenuity has seen the human race leap through the Industrial Revolution and soar into a scientific era of breakthroughs and discoveries. Radio, central heating, toilets - these are but some of the countless inventions that have transformed our lives.Who made these discoveries? And what led them to their breakthroughs? Meet the brilliant, eccentric, and occasionally errat...

What if the car meant to protect your family became the very thing trying to kill them?Michael Bauer helped build the future of transportation: a fully autonomous smart vehicle designed to eliminate human error and keep passengers safer than ever before. But when a routine family trip through the scorching Arizona desert turns into a nightmare, Michael realizes the technology he once trusted may have been weaponized against him.Trapped inside a locked vehicle with his wife ...

Few scholarly constructs have proven as influential or as durable as the Johannine community. A product of the era in New Testament studies dominated by redaction criticism, the Johannine community construct as articulated first by J. Louis Martyn and later by Raymond E. Brown emerged with an explanatory power that proved persuasive to scholars deliberating on the provenance and emergence of the Johannine literature for the next 50 years. Recent years, however, have seen this once dominant...

We are at war right now. The forces of light and darkness are lined up in battle array as the world moves closer to the end of the age.Using both military and spiritual warfare tactics, this US Army colonel and Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist equip you as a believer to be battle-ready. This training manual will teach you to be empowered to counter the darkness of approaching end-times forces; develop your spiritual gifts so you can walk in the supernatural power and protection ...

God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology. Too often, dialogues on sexuality and gender devolve into the repetition of party lines and defensive postures, without considering the interdisciplinary body of scholarly research on this complex subject. This vo...