Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of both the scientific and religious spheres.Why does the tension between science and religion continue?...

Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, two men who struggled mightily to reconcile their religion and their science, then looks to more recent times when scientific challenges to religion (evolutionary theory, for example) have given rise to powerful political re...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** --- Emilia Hart (author of Weyward)From acclaimed author Keith Stuart, author of A Boy Made of Blocks and The Frequency of Us, comes a daring and unique story of heartbreak and hope.A single sentence was all it took to define Cammy's life. They came as her beloved artist aunt was dying, a tee...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** - Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward and The Sirens'Did your mother ever tell you about the curse?'Spoken by her dying aunt, these were the words that would come to define Cammy's life.As a teenager, Cammy dismissed the warning that the women in her family were doomed to lose th...

'A story of life, love and hope - the perfect antidote to today's world. Phenomenal'CLARE MACKINTOSHThe incredible, life-affirming new novel by the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Bestseller A Boy Made of Blocks for fans of Matt Haig and Jojo Moyes.Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical pro...

The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.Setting the stage with an ove...

With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and fi...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has ende...

A laugh-out-loud tale of love, life lessons, and an odd little man named Mungo Thunk.Bathroom scales were not an appropriate gift for his fiancée’s birthday … apparently.Ever since he ate seven pickled gherkins for lunch at school, and subsequently shat himself during a maths lesson, Adam Maxwell has been cursed by a lack of common sense.Now in his early thirties, that lack of common sense is about to throw Adam’s life into turmoil after one particularly ill-judged ...

Stigma is one of the major barriers to care for people with mental health and related disorders. Stigma includes negative beliefs about and hostile perceptions towards others, shame and self-stigma, discriminatory practices in hiring, promotion and recognition of people who suffer from mental health challenges, and structural and organizational policies and processes that result in inequalities for people who have mental health challenges. Stigma has been recognized as a significant factor...

Collects Annihilation #1-6 & Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus #1-2. Nova! Drax! Super-Skrull! Ronan! Quasar! Thanos! Annihilus! Silver Surfer! Galactus! With the power of Galactus behind him, is Annihilus unstoppable? The universe’s one hope may be Thanos the mad Titan as sacrifices are made, ancient evil strikes, and new heroes rise!

What Silence Will Not Bury Genre: Southern Gothic / Historical Fiction Setting: A rural, ridge-top farming community in 1937. In the summer of 1937, the quiet world of Att and Vicary is shattered by the brutal lynching of their friend, Waite Reynolds, a Black farmer on their ridge. After finding Waite's body, Att retreats into a paralyzing guilt and silence. Unable to express his outrage or pain to the world, he instead pours out his broken heart to Vicary, his best friend, his only friend...