TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT……And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that leads to him solving a murder to...

Archaeologists and architects draw upon theoretical perspectives from their fields to provide valuable insights into the structure, development, and meaning of prehistoric communities.Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives of the homes, spaces,...

Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives explores mental health through the lens of the communication discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a broader perspective and stigma of mental health. In the second section, contributors investigate mental health through various narrative perspectives. In the third and fourth sections, contributors consider many applied contexts such as...

Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Studentsaddresses how many academics who experience mental distress or mental illness are afraid to speak out because of cultural stigma and fears of career repercussions. Many academics’ reluctance to publicly disclose their struggles complicates attempts to understand their experiences through research or popular media, or to develop targeted mental health resources and institutional policies. This volume builds o...

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history."The genius of Like a Fam...

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archaeol...

The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of faith in a patriarchal blessing’s unfulfilled promise, a survivor of violence calling a divided ...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

Fact or Fiction? You Decide is a rare and powerful spiritual work that dares to challenge the deepest assumptions of human existence. Drawing from more than fifteen years of daily immersion in A Course in Miracles, Robert Hall distills the Course's most profound metaphysical teachings into a clear, accessible, and transformative journey. This book is not simply read - it is experienced. It invites the reader to question the nature of reality itself, to look beyond the surface of l...

What if the world you see, the body you inhabit, and the fears you carry have never been real at all? What if the universe itself began not with a cosmic explosion of matter, but with a single mistaken thought in the mind of Christ - a tiny instant of curiosity that seemed to separate the Son from the Source of all Love? And what if every moment of suffering, conflict, guilt, and death has been nothing more than a dream we are destined to awaken from?This manuscript is a sweeping, ...

A breathtaking spiritual journey through miracles, near‑death experiences, divine communication, and the collapse of time itself. When Lana-seventy‑five, wise, humble, and radiant with faith-was diagnosed with terminal pulmonary fibrosis, doctors gave her a year to live. Instead, she experienced a healing so profound it left medical professionals stunned. Later, during two separate near‑death experiences, she left her body, stood beside Jesus, and witnessed the vastness of creation-from th...

This is not a book about God. It is a book that dismantles everything you thought you knew about God, the universe, the soul, and your own identity - and then rebuilds it with a clarity that feels both ancient and shockingly new.In these pages, Robert Hall takes readers on a journey that begins with the deepest human pain - loss, tragedy, impossible survival - and rises into a breathtaking exploration of metaphysics, consciousness, and the true nature of existence. Drawing from dec...