Lara Croft meets Pulp Fiction…“Elocution Lessons” is an adult action-adventure about a brilliant young linguist, Tina Wood. Through her university mentor, she is hired as an FBI consultant to translate documents that originated in the Middle East. These translation assignments were supposed to be routine. However, they lead Dr. Wood into an ever-expanding labyrinth of international intrigue, double-dealing, and deviant deeds. She will need all her ingenuity, wits, and knowledge to ...

Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other citizen groups, as well as academia. Research into these phenomena has spanned the humanities and social sciences, and the subcultural theories that underlie this work are similarly interdisciplinary. Subcultural Theory brings these diverse analytic issues together in a single text, offering readers...

What if grief was only the beginning-and the end of the world was closer than anyone believed?Reeling from heartbreak and drowning in alcohol-fueled nights, a once-promising college leader struggles just to face another day. His only anchor is Jersey, the loyal black cat who refuses to leave his side. But when a run through Philadelphia ends with an impossible vision-a winged figure suspended in the sky-his private collapse collides with a revelation that could upend reality itself...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if grief was only the beginning—and the end of the world was closer than anyone believed?Reeling from heartbreak and drowning in alcohol-fueled nights, a once-promising college leader struggles just to face another day. His only anchor is Jersey, the loyal black cat who refuses to leave his side. But when a run through Philadelphia ends with an impossible vision—a winged figure suspended in the sky—his private collapse coll...

The concept of ’subculture’ is an invaluable tool to frame the study of non-normative and marginal cultures for social and cultural scholars.This international collection uncovers the significance of meaning-making in the processes of defining, studying and analyzing subcultural phenomena.Examining various dimensions of interpretivism, the book focuses on overarching concerns related to interpretation as well as day-to-day considerations that affect researchers’ and members...

"Secret Service Under Pitt" by William J. Fitz-Patrick delves into the intricate world of espionage during a pivotal time in British history. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of political intrigue and the challenges faced by the British government. Fitz-Patrick meticulously explores the operations of the secret service, highlighting key figures and their contributions to national security. The book offers a fascinating glimpse into the clandestine activities that shaped the cours...

As identity and authenticity discourses increasingly saturate everyday life, so too have these concepts spread across the humanities and social sciences literatures. Many scholars may be interested in identity and authenticity but lack knowledge of paradigmatic or disciplinary approaches to these concepts. This volume offers readers insight into social constructionist approaches to identity and authenticity. It focuses on the processes of identification and authentication, rather than on s...

12 award-winning science fiction authors from around the world offer original tales of relationships in a future world of evolving technology.For fans of anthologies like Soonish and Netflix's Black MirrorIn a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships—in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects t...

Fifteen more fresh tales of madness and monsters from Fractured Mind Publishing that will leave you wanting more while you thank the Old Gods for the Mythos that inspired these stories. The astounding authors that weave these new webs of madness include:EV KNIGHT BECKY NARRON KARI LEIGH SANDERS PATRICK RAHALL CLAIRE DAVON CHARLES REIS RAZ T. SLASHER STEVE VAN SAMSON RYAN COLLEY L. E. HARRISON JON TOBEY LILY LUCHESI TRISHA J. WOOLDRIDGE DALE DRAKE CURTIS M. LAWSON

By 2050, the world’s centenarian population—those aged 100 or more—will increase eightfold. Half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to reach the same heights. It’s going to upend everything we thought we knew about health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Whether we’re 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all. The Big 100 confronts listeners with both the brightness and potential bleakness of a fate few of us thought possible. Journalist William Kol...

What is the endgame of God’s transforming work in human beings?Putting on Christ is the first volume of the Getting Changedtrilogy, which offers the first sustained study of New Testament clothing metaphors. This volumeexamines passages where the apostle Paul speaks of “putting off” the old self and “putting on” the new self to illustrate the past and present spiritual transformation of God’s people. Paul also speaks of “putting on” an immortal, brilliant body lik...

My story is a true life drama set in the remote east Texas woods in 1971. The main characters are ten emotionally disturbed delinquent teenage boys from the Southside of Chicago. The boys had been rejected from Chicago and Illinois juvenile facilities and from the boys ranch in Austin Texas. As a final effort to save these boys from themselves they became part of an outrageous plan to send them into the woods without running water, electricity, shelter, telephones, television, doctors and ...