Drawing on accounts of ordinary Americans, Hidden Terrors offers the first comprehensive history of the enigmatic illness behind the 1830s cholera pandemic--and its profound consequences for the nation. From 1832 to 1836, cholera erupted across US cities as well as in small towns, rural farms, prisons, and plantations. Its victims experienced ghastly symptoms--vomiting, explosive diarrhea, painful spasms, turning blue, and collapsing into comas--and often perished within hours of ...

Before smartphones, social media, and helicopter parenting, there was a generation of kids who roamed neighborhoods until the streetlights came on, rewound VHS tapes, and learned life's hardest lessons without a safety net. They were Generation X - and they turned out just fine. In Back in the Day: A Tribute to the '80s Generation X, Dr. Paul Samuel Young takes readers on a vivid, heartfelt journey through the decade that forged one of history's most resilient, self-reliant, and quietly in...

O, the trees are dancingIn their green leotards!The branches are talkingIn their lumberyards.I'm lost in the babbling.I'm like a house of cards.Fallen and now scrabblingIn root-like boulevards.

Two thousand years ago, a Galilean Jewish man was executed by the Roman Empire as a political threat. Almost everything you think you know about what happened next was shaped, edited, and in places invented by the institution that later claimed his name.THE JESUS THEY BURIED is a rigorous, evidence-first investigation into the most contested figure in history: the man Rome killed, the woman who stood at his tomb, the gospels that were buried in the Egyptian desert, the forgeries ma...

Many reject baptism as being necessary for the remission of sins and entrance into God's Kingdom, the Church. This volume provides biblical answers to 26 common objections to baptism.Originally, Paul Mays created a video series answering these objections. Those answers have been compiled, edited, and summarized for the purpose of easy reading and quick reference. We hope this work can be a benefit to all-from the seeking soul to the studious Christian looking to evangelize.

A memoir of British middle school bullying and one precocious comic nerd’s fight to make it through while remaining as invisible as possible.Paul B. Rainey takes a look back at his middle school education and the indignities suffered—a mix of stalled friendships, pitched battles with martinets, and exasperated pleading with intractable parents. Playground games take on outsized importance as Paul and his friends seek respite from a particularly abusive science teac...

This book examines the decision-making of the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, of England and Wales in appeals against conviction through the lens of risk. This is achieved by normative evaluation of the concept of risk and how it is tolerated within the wider criminal justice system, and the implications of that tolerance for the Court of Appeal. This analysis involves consideration of recent Court decisions to further our understanding of its decision-making process, to advance the no...

Paradise fit in a van. The apocalypse fit in eight bars.If the blindfolds in Bird Box kept you up at night, the silence in The Rhythm Is Going to Get You will finish the job. If you've ever had a song lodge in your head and play all day long, consider this your warning. Invasion of the Body Snatchers gave you neighbors who came back wrong. Station Eleven gave you a world worth mourning. This gives you both, and one man who can't hear it coming.

A British PI goes undercover when a ghost threatens the outcome of the Cold War in this mystery from the author of The Poseidon Adventure .Alexander Hero knows a fake when he sees one. As the chief investigator for the British Society of Psychical Research and a private detective of the occult, being a professional skeptic of the paranormal is his job. Of course, he is just as eager to find proof of life after death as he...

In this sequel to the hit film The Poseidon Adventure , survivors and salvagers find treasure and terror in the cruise ship's sinking wreckage.When an underground earthquake in the Mediterranean created a massive tidal wave, the Athens-bound luxury liner SS Poseidon was capsized. Six out of 1,600 people survived after fighting their way through an upside-down chaos of wreckage, bodies, and water to be rescued thr...

In this classic from the author of The Poseidon Adventure , a New York copyeditor embarks on a heroic journey in Europe at the dawn of World War II.Who is Hiram Holliday?On the surface, Hiram is a bespectacled, middle-aged copyeditor at an esteemed New York City newspaper. Punctual and polite, he leads a mundane existence behind a desk with a well-sharpened pencil in hand. The only excitement that he ever sees is ...

Five veterans of the French Resistance fight crime on the Côte d'Azur in this spellbinding novel from the author of The Poseidon Adventure .During World War II, five men joined the underground French Resistance. They became known as the Zoo Gang thanks to their code names: the Tiger, the Elephant, the Leopard, the Wolf, and the Fox, their leader Colonel Pierre Roquebrun. Each had his own special skill, and together, they ...