Providing a format that engages students to discuss real world issues, this book features seventy-five video clips from recent movies you can use to illustrate topics, including summaries of the movie and the clip, start-stop times, and Scripture references.

The Ketamine Papers opens the door to a broad understanding of this medicine’s growing use in psychiatry and its decades of history providing transformative personal experiences.Now gaining increasing recognition as a promising approach to the treatment of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other psychological conditions, ketamine therapies offer new hope for patients and clinicians alike. With multiple routes of adminis...

Stunning photos and expert text reveal the secret lives of salt marshes. Along the coasts, where ocean tides mix salt water with fresh water, nature has created salt marshes - soggy places full of natural wonders. For years, salt marshes were maligned, drained, or filled in. Now salt marshes are valued as the home of fascinating wildlife, including more than twenty different species of birds. Ornithologist and photographer Doug Wechsler takes the reader on a down-and-muddy tour of the year...

We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has "printed" too much money or that events far away, such as the war in Ukraine, are solely to blame. The plain argument that high prices go together with high profits, falling wages, and weak production is often distorted and hidden by mainstream commentar...

In this thrilling story from the world's #1 bestselling author, after losing the love of his life, a defense lawyer takes a lifeguard job at the beach ... but he's in for the wildest part of the summer yet.Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a lifeguard job at the beach. But there's one wave he'll never see coming ...BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James ...

M.R. James' classic mystery about a disappearing and reappearing hotel room, can you guess the room number?

An archaeologist unearths an ancient crown said to protect England from invasion. It is also rumoured to be protected by unnatural powers. Powers that will seek to restore the crown to the earth and punish those that remain.

Midland was a young farming and ranching community on the southern edge of the Llano Estacado when the real-photo postcard era began near the opening of the 20th century. Businesses, residents, and promoters embraced this new technology to produce images capturing Midland's unusual rural-and-cosmopolitan mix. As postcards changed to linen and chrome, Midland also underwent dramatic changes. The city on the plains worked hard to become an indispensable part of the vast 1920s Permian Basin o...

Sir Matthew Fell witnesses an enigmatic woman perform curious night rituals to a strange Ash Tree, as tragedies befall the local people. What dark powers does the tree invoke.

Two men investigate a mysterious alchemist who kills his rivals with arcane magic.

An orphan discovers his foster father has evil plans for the children he takes in, past...and present.

An ancient whistle holds the power to summon a creature beyond reason. Once blown little can stop its hideous purpose.