Welcome to Thorneside. If you’re a new arrival, the place may look like just another sleepy town nestled among the rolling hills of Lindisfarne County. But spend some time here, meet the people, and you’ll soon see much more. Meet a church choirmaster who has been scanning obituaries for over twenty years, searching for one particular name. Meet a former big-city paramedic who now drives a hearse for the local funeral home so he doesn’t have to worry about killing his passengers. Meet a my...

Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents.The Abolitionist Movement: Documents Decoded collects primary sources pertaining to various aspects of the American anti-slavery movement in the 18th and 19th centuries and presents these firsthand sources alongside accessibly written, ex...

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life.Advaita Vedanta, the most iconoclastic and liberating of the classical Indian philosophies, profoundly altered the author’s experience of self and worl...

Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants like “All night! All day! We’re gonna fight for Freddie Gray!” and “No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!” give voice simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that sustain BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of individuals whom religious institutions ...

Layla Harrison seems to have gotten more than she expected when she was hired as a live in housekeeper and errand girl for Wayne Patterson, his brother Elton, his best friend Dennis and his cousin Brian. To help pay her way through college and desperate to stay out of her mother’s cramped house with four other siblings, Layla does whatever she can to stay financially independent. As she embarks on her new occupation she makes every effort to stay focused on what she was hired to do and not...

Two friends—a Democrat and a Republican—travel across America "on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation . . . to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives" (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad.In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan...

A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this ""faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing"" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness).An American couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. This difficult journey leave...

Epic McDade is not ready for middle school.Luckily, he’s got all summer to prepare at his family’s dog-friendly hotel, the Perro del Mar. And what a summer it will be … Carmelito, California, has been named America’s #1 Dog-Friendly Town, and puppies and owners alike arepouring into Epic’s sleepy seaside neighborhood for a week of celebration!Business is booming, and the McDades are in dog heaven—especially Epic’s little sister, Elvis, whose favorite celebrity canine...

An insider's account of the rise of digital money and cryptocurrenciesDubbed "CryptoDad" for his impassioned plea to Congress to acknowledge and respect cryptocurrencies as the inevitable product of a fast-growing technological wave and a free marketplace, Chris Giancarlo is considered one of "the most influential individuals in financial regulation." CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money describes Giancarlo’s own reckoning with the future of the gl...

An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and relevant bones, conclusions can be reached regarding the probable musculature, stance, brain size, age, weight, and sex of a particular fossil specimen. The sort of deductions which are possible are illustrated by reference back to contempor...

In Christopher Morley's novel "Kathleen," the reader is invited into the vibrant world of a young woman's coming-of-age journey, filled with rich characterizations and a blend of humor and poignancy. Morley expertly weaves a tapestry of life in early 20th-century America, employing a narrative style that is at once lyrical and conversational. The book captures the cultural and social nuances of its time, reflecting the complexities of identity and self-discovery amidst the constraints of s...

Landmarks in Nephrology points the reader to some of the seminal observations which have led to the practice of nephrology as we know it today. Twenty areas of nephrology are covered by discrete chapters, with the editors selecting the ten most important papers ever published in that field. These range from observational and experimental studies from the 18th century, which laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the kidney, through to recent randomized controlled clinical tri...