The first of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the eve of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. By comparing and contrasting Spanish documents with Hopi oral traditions, the editors portray a balanced presentation of their shared past. Translations of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century documents wr...

'Something Wicked: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries' presents an unparalleled compilation, intricately weaving the profound themes of human fear, supernatural intrigue, and psychological complexity. This anthology spans a broad spectrum of literary styles, from the gothic allure of 19th-century narratives to the eerie ambiguity of modern psychological horror, showcasing the evolution of the genre within its rich historical tapestry. Standout pieces, imbued with ...

Psychopaths are not human. Psychopaths will leave effusive and flattering comments on your social network page after you friend them. They will text you numerous times a day and call you on the phone just to hear your voice before they sleep. They continually quiz you about your sexual fantasies then enthusiastically promise to fulfil them all on the day you physically meet. Steadily and by degrees they build a comprehensive profile of you in order to create a blueprint for constructing a ...

Thomas Sheridan’s A Discourse serves as an introduction to his lectures on elocution and the English language. In this work, Sheridan emphasizes the importance of proper speech and pronunciation, presenting elocution as a vital skill for effective communication. He argues that mastery of language not only enhances personal expression but also contributes to the intellectual and moral development of society.Sheridan outlines his belief that the decline in proper speech reflects broader cult...

This book presents theories and models to examine how humans interact with complex automated systems, including both empirical and theoretical methods.Provides examples of models appropriate to the four stages of human-system interactionExamines in detail the philosophical underpinnings and assumptions of modelingDiscusses how a model fits into "doing science" and the considerations in garnering evidence and arriving at beliefs for the modeled phenomena

"Astronomical Weather” A decade ago there arose a realization that burning fossil fuels, thus discharging CO2 into the atmosphere, raises earth’s temperature. In due course, it is feared, increasing temperatures will expand oceans and melt polar ice caps. Oceans will rise, submerging coastal cities under the seas like ancient Atlantis. Curtailing carbon fuels will cause economic chaos across the world as we have no economic alternative. “Astronomical Weather” informs the reader of the char...

Thrown in a cage and stripped of my dignity, I was auctioned to the highest bidder, but I never imagined that I'd end my night in the home of Killian DeLorenzo—head of the Romanian Mafia and the most powerful man in the country.To know him is to fear him, and I just became his newest possession.Pleasing him comes easily, but what I didn't expect was the effect he would have on my heart.This world is no place for a girl like me, and navigating it mig...

Vampires...fearful undead creatures of myths and legends, supernatural terrors from our darkest nightmares, the inspiration for so many tales of tragedy and horror.Explore the birth of vampires and their evolution in Vampire Classics.Vampire Classics brings together many classic tales of vampires in a single volume.In this horror anthology, undeath abounds in:Dracula by Bram StokerDracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (ano...

From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted to much but left dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers struggled to create and the existing social spaces the...

The Devil’s Highway—El Camino del Diablo—crosses hundreds of miles and thousands of years of Arizona and Southwest history. This heritage trail follows a torturous route along the U.S. Mexico border through a lonely landscape of cactus, desert flats, drifting sand dunes, ancient lava flows, and searing summer heat. The most famous waterhole along the way is Tinajas Altas, or High Tanks, a series of natural rock basins that are among the few reliable sources of water in this notoriously par...

20 Must-Read Memoirs of Civil War assembles a capacious documentary literature of the American Civil War, juxtaposing battlefield recollection, military analysis, political observation, domestic testimony, and accounts of irregular warfare. Its range extends from commanders' strategic narratives to nurses' and civilians' intimate records, rendering the conflict as both a national crisis and a sequence of intensely local, embodied experiences. Particularly compelling are the contrasts betwe...

American against American: 20 Gripping Civil War Memoirs & Diaries assembles a capacious archive of conflict, testimony, and remembrance from the United States' defining internal war. Ranging from diaries and military narratives to reflections on campaigns, captivity, guerrilla violence, nursing, and civilian endurance, the volume juxtaposes terse eyewitness record with retrospective memoir. Its standout materials illuminate both celebrated operations and the war's intimate dislocations, r...