In the fall of 2000, a veteran NYPD detective with a record of always catching the bad guy is tasked with tracking a serial rapist. But this is no ordinary criminal. This guy seems to be uncatchable, and something has to give.Knock-Knock is the true story of the intense search for a ruthless rapist posing as a maintenance worker before invading the homes of his innocent victims. He terrorizes a community of young women, many of whom are in their early teens. No one in New York City...

A guide to treating psychosis that provides information on drug options and side-effects in order to allow for weighing treatment options knowledgablyThe Maudsley Guidelines on Advanced Prescribing in Psychosis offers a resource that puts the focus on the need to treat the individual needs of a patient. The authors – noted experts on the topic – offer an alternative to the one-size-fits-all treatment of psychosis and shows how to build psychiatrist and pat...

"The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or creditability is already in doubt." So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling polemic, which takes as its point of departure Foucault's famous remark that sex is "the explanation for everything."Combining psychoanalytic, literary, and queer theory, The Explanation for Everything seeks to account for the explanatory power attributed to homosexuality, and its relationsh...

The first true pyramid, the Shining Pyramid of Pharaoh Snefru is completed in 2601 B.C. One god is elevated and another demoted in the eyes of Pharaoh and the people. Murder and chaos soon follows, with the priests of the demoted god demanding revenge on the one who has wronged them. This man is Quom, Royal Architect to Pharaoh, the man who has designed and constructed the pyramid for his pharaoh.Set against the beginnings of the magnificent pyramid age of Ancient Egypt, THE DIVINE...

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood – Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor – and the gay male fetishization of those faces.Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between rival scopic economies: an erotics of “to-be-looked-at-ness” is countered by a hermeneutics of “to-be-seen-through-ness.” The latter emerges triump...

EATING WITH THE PHARAOHS is a collection of recipes and stories written by Pentu the Scribe, (a fictional character) who served as Master of Pharaoh's Kitchen during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, 2589 - 2566 B.C. They bring to us part of the struggle of working as a cook in the Egypt of the pyramid builders. The recipes describe the ingredients and the ways of preparing the food more than four thousand years ago when accurate measuring was something not applied to food. In this intriguing co...

While the Southern Baptist Convention has so often been a step behind on the issue of race since its formation, there was still light shining in the darkness: a group of biblically faithful men and women who both recognized and fought for their racially marginalized brothers and sisters. Chief among these men and women was Thomas Buford Maston. T. B. Maston faithfully engaged the topic as the SBC's preeminent ethicist from 1922-1963 as a professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Semina...

A Yankee Doodle original, the American Water Spaniel hails from the state of Wisconsin, where in the town of New London Dr. F. J. Pfeifer developed this all-around sporting dog that could retrieve and flush for the upland hunter. Medium in size and colored in chocolate or liver, the American Water Spaniel excels as both a retriever and a spaniel. Author Paul R. Morrison, an active AWS breeder and sportsman, traces the breed's origins back to Civil War days, chronicling the many legends tha...

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very form—futuristic, majestic, and progressive—perfectly exemplifies the City of Angels.From the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which began construction during the Great Depression, to the Century Freeway, completed in 1993, author Paul Haddad provides an entertaining and thought-provoking history of the 527 miles of roadway...

At Easter of 1916 an armed insurrection, launched by paramilitary republicans, took place in Ireland. When the General Post Office in Dublin was seized on Easter Monday, the rebels declared a free Irish Republic, independent from Great Britain. In the century that has passed since the Easter Rising, each generation of Irish republicans has mounted their own paramilitary campaign to bring about an independent united Ireland, from the War of Independence, to The Troubles, and right up to the...

If you are a student of medicine, nursing, health, and social care, then this revised edition is an invaluable learning resource for you.Introduction to Health Psychology, fifth edition, is a must-read, widely praised textbook that provides the learning resources you need from theory and research to real-world examples, helping you develop a better understanding and critical thinking on the issues explored.This revision provides a compreh...