Gotham Express magazine founder and editor Jonathan Daly had it all. Talent, money, fame, charm, good looks, and success. But he also had a huge ego, tremendous arrogance, a volcanic temper, and the ability to alienate even those closest to him. So there is no shortage of suspects when Jonathan is brutally murdered. And no shortage of danger when Jonathan's estranged spouse and widow, Ellen Foley, is threatened with the same fate.It's up to former Gotham Express star investigative ...

Originally published in 1988, Effective Psychotherapy: The Silent Dialogue, reissued here with a new foreword by the author’s son, explores various debates within psychotherapy. The book offers a transtheoretical psychotherapy seeking to explain its covert processes – its “silent dialogue” – together with an accompanying operative strategy and set of technical principles. The attempt is made to define the patient’s dis-ease, to describe its etiology, to outline a remedial procedur...

This book critically examines the development and operation of administrative justice in the UK.Every day, people have millions of interactions with government and public services. Administrative justice is concerned with the fairness of these interactions and the redress mechanisms people can use when things go wrong. Administrative justice is a large and expanding part of the legal system and of governmental activity in the United Kingdom. It inc...

Pierre Eggar is an insurance investigator for Alliance Insurance, which operates within Independent Worlds Alliance. He’s looking into a claim over the death of one Al Lund. But something about Lund’s death doesn’t quite make sense.Lund was a common mechanic living a quiet life. Yet he was murdered by a professional killer. Eggar suspects that Lund might have once been a criminal. He has to travel all over the Alliance and dig up the past to sort out why Lund met a violent end.

This book argues that while the interwar period is generally seen as a period of Evangelical withdrawal from American public life, Evangelical leaders of varying sub-groups remained acutely aware of foreign affairs, speaking on US foreign affairs to large groups of congregants and beyond. Contributing to the spread of themes that emerged during this era regarding concerns of anti-Semitism, skepticism of the League of Nations, and preoccupation on biblical prophecy seen in current events. S...

Not Dreaming: Martin Luther King Jr’s Critique of America seeks to deepen the American public’s understanding of its most famous African American protest leader. While Americans venerate MLK as a great orator who dreamed of a world free of racism, most are unfamiliar with King’s penetrating and radical social criticism. Not Dreaming reveals that MLK spoke and wrote extensively about what he termed the “triple evils” afflicting the United States: racism, militarism, and th...

In this authoritative study, originally published in 1980, R. J. Bennett examines who receives what benefit, where and at what cost, from the social services. He adopts an integrated approach to taxes, benefits and intergovernmental grants, drawing empirical examples from a wide range of countries, including the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe.

**Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park presents a new tale of contemporary cosmic horror, along with his inspiration from Robert W. Chambers’s horror classic The King in Yellow.Designed and illustrated by Jeff Wong, the award-winning artist of Weird Tales magazine, this ebook features interior art.**Sid Feelings, a successful children’s entertainer, is trapped in a modern nightmare. She’s canceled when a man with whom she shares a name commits a heinous crime. ...

It has become a near-universal assumption that Jesus was a courageous champion of Pacifism and non-violent resistance. But for many years, a few maverick scholars have made the case for Jesus having been an armed insurrectionist. This version of Jesus is the "black sheep" of gospel studies, unthinkable equally to conservative and liberal Christian scholars, who want the historical Jesus to have been a peace-loving precursor to Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin...

No matter how smart we are, we end up grappling with ideas that resist understanding. In this book, Byzantium is identified as the archetypical civilization that nurtured its innermost doubts. It shows how religious dogma was riddled with inscrutable quandaries, where the highest imaginable entity—God—is considered incomprehensible. Byzantine writers develop a doctrine of divine knowledge as a holy hiatus; and many of the features of Byzantine culture that look odd or irregular to modern e...

This fascinating new study from renowned historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of the Wehrmacht from its birth in 1935 through to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938.Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933 on the back of a populist agenda, and a promise to lead the nation back to unity, stability and prosperity. A key part of that was his promise to restore Germany's military which had been reduced to little more than a well-armed police force by the prov...

International trade is undergoing profound transformation. The liberalization paradigm that characterized much of the twentieth century has given way to renewed tariff conflicts, systemic disruptions caused by war and geopolitical rivalry, and mounting pressures to align trade with sustainability objectives. These shifts underscore the urgent need to re-examine the intellectual and policy foundations of global commerce in light of twenty-first century realities. This book offers a comprehe...