Hiding just behind the fragile skin of reality, like a parasite beneath the flesh, festers a world where nothing makes sense. Time doesn't move—it twitches, stalls, reverses in spasms, dragging you through the same moment again and again with subtle, sickening differences. Space twists into unnatural shapes, folding in on itself like a body contorted in agony, corridors stretching into infinity before snapping shut behind you. The very laws that govern existence—gravity, light, sound—fract...

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina’s sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state’s Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling and travelogue to create a portr...

From beyond the unknowns of the Mighty Brim Mountains of the west they camehordes of nomadic giants called Troguares led by a merciless warlord, Obizar, their king. With the use of dark sorcery and having an insatiable appetite to conquer an entire world, he and his armies slowly swept across the land for nearly thousand years, bringing kingdom after kingdom of men to their knees, leaving death and destruction in their wake. While both enslaving and supplementing them as food, he held all ...

She's a quiet, simple girl,  living a quiet simple life, but she has an overwhelming desire to be something else - someone else - she just doesn't know what it is yet.  Overcoming her hesitation to move along in the direction she subconsciously knows she was destined for, join her on her journey into the amazing depths of submission.   Sometimes light-hearted, brutally honest, but always entertaining, The Submissive Virgin is a true life tale of submission at...

Do you need help with your relationship? Do you need help finding the right one? Do you want to find out why men and women act the way they do? Unlocking & Understanding Mysteries About Your Mate by Pastor C. Giovianni Simpson is the book for you! Written to answer hundreds of your hardest questions about the opposite sex, single life, marriage, and true love, this book is a guarantee to help fix your relationships, change your heart and change your life!

Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly addressing many of the urgent issues of today.Simpson demonstrates that hermeneutics exhibits significant interpretive advantages compared to co...

The Winds of War blow across Mareshna. Swords are brought to bear. The end of the world looms.The armies of the western horde stand between King Ainslen Cardiff and his mad dream to conquer the world. But even as he’s massed his forces at the Swords of Humel, another enemy has taken advantage of the opening he leaves behind.Queen Terestere maneuvers her pieces across the board to complete her vengeance, see her people rise, and to face a man she has often dreamed of killing...

My writing evolved from journaling during several peripatetic years including a stint as a sailor in the Navy. Most pieces are transcribed from napkins which I found to be widely available when I had momentary urges to record random streams of consciousness. Many of those which seem to be directed at someone specific are in fact merely daydreams with noone particular in mind. The collection here is a fraction of those writings I have saved - and is a preliminary effort to publish many thou...

Incorporating Compass Computer Access Assessment software, Computer Access for People with Disabilities: A Human Factors Approach provides the information clinicians need to know in order to provide effective alternative computer access solutions to individuals with disabilities. This book presents technology for individuals with physical, cognitive, and sensory impairments, and for older adults. The text covers text entry devices, pointing devices, switch access, automatic speech recognit...

This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.

An urban fantasy short story incorporating:A curious fairy.A terrified cargo hidden in a truck.An illegal auction.A troll.And desperate measures.When Mélange sneaks aboard a long-distance hauler to look for those in despair, she finds herself taken far from home, to the sinister side of humanity’s contact with the Otherworld.Faced with unfamiliar technology too big for a fairy to operate, and hunted by a troll, can she stay alive long...