"... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a Dog," where a musician turns PI to track down a stalke...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This sixth volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis S...

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book emphasizes a conceptual understanding of this approach. A special feature is the integratio...

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense. The authors explicate the processes and situational conditions that facilitate opportunities for white-collar crimes and the likelihood of being victimized by white-collar crime. In addition, they offer potential policy solutions that will mitigate this persistent and widespr...

Ferdinand Magellan was the famous explorer best known for having planned and led the Spanish expedition which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history."Magellan is one of those who, as Robert Browning says, are “named and known by that moment’s feat,” and though that feat took three years in the doing, he is still a man of one achievement. Unlike some great general who has half a dozen victorious campaigns to justify his title to immortality, unlike some great painte...

Erik Varangr is the quartermaster on the Bartered Soul, a pirate vessel newly captained by his friend, William Lennox. When the two find a priestess hiding before they set sail, Erik discovers she is more than just another woman seeking escape from the harsh new regime that's taken over Selennia.Siobhan is a priestess on the run from captivity in one of King Dargan Blackwell's army camps. When two brutal pirates save her from being re-captured, she...

The Grémillet sisters are staring down a cold and rainy week at the beach... But as they soon find out, even the drabbest of places can hide marvels!Sarah, Cassiopeia, and Lucille have stumbled into another adventure, this one prompted by a secretive ancestor, a rumored pirate treasure, and a beached whale... The biggest mystery, however, might be little Lucille, who's behaving more oddly than ever. As the trio follows the trail of clues before them, will they be able to overcome their dif...

In this book, Professor Stephen Vicchio gives a comprehensive analysis of the religious beliefs of the first president of the United States, George Washington. After discussing Washington's early religious life in the Anglican and Episcopal churches, Professor Vicchio goes on to analyze Washington's views on God, the Bible, religious toleration, ethics and virtue, prayer, and whether or not America was established as a Christian nation, as well as his understanding of the problem of evil a...

The Canadian theatre has seen an extraordinary growth in writing talent and new professional companies in the last two decades. This is the first book accurately to chart its expansion and development from the beginnings to the present day. With some 680 entries including biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers and details of major plays, and such diverse subjects as theatres and companies, collective theatre, ethnic theatre, musical theatre, and radio and television dram...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

If there were a prize for the best pet, dogs would win, no contest. Sure, a crocodile, tiger, or hippopotamus would be cool, but who wouldn't want their own little puppy to cuddle, love... and train? It's going to take some patience, and this little Nunuche isn't going to make the job easy!

The Grémillet sisters are heading to the mountains for a long-awaited reunion with their dad. But as always, things don't go as planned... With their astronomer father preoccupied with a soon-to-arrive comet, Sarah, Cassiopeia, and Lucille set out on their own to explore the region and it isn't long before they stumble onto a new (four-legged) mystery!