Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ Maya community of San Andrés Xecul in the Guatemalan Highlands and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of locals who have migrated to the United States.Author C. James MacKenzie explores the relationship among four coexisting religious communities within Highland Maya villages in contemp...

From author Charlie Jane Anders comes a Tor.com Original, Six Months, Three Days, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can't both be right, but over and over again, they are.Obviou...

When the Faerae folk flee their world and come to ours, running from the nightmare of war, nobody in the everyday knows what to do. So they are locked away. Thirteen-year-old Samm Wolfback lives in Glass Forest, a sprawling Faerae refugee camp in England. Life in Glass Forest is hard, poisoned by disease and crime and poverty. But Samm has a unique gift that lines his pockets – he can find lost things. When Samm is thrust into the centre of a plot to escape Glass Forest and return home, he...

In this latest edition of THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alison Littlewood, Graham Masterton, Michael Marshall Smith, Damien Angelica Walters, Reggie Oliver and Than Niveau, amongst many others. You'll also find the usual Introduction: Horror in 2018 and Necrology of those who have left us.

Wisdom of the Scots brings together 365 traditional Scottish proverbs, each presented in Scots, translated into clear modern English, and explained with careful attention to meaning, context, and practical use.These sayings were never intended as decoration. They emerged from everyday life shaped by work, weather, scarcity, kinship, authority, and long memory. Spoken rather than written for much of their history, they survived because they were useful. They warned ...

Neurological disorders are diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. Examples of symptoms include paralysis,muscle weakness, poor coordination, loss of sensation, seizures, confusion, pain and altered levels of consciousness. Thereare many recognized neurological disorders, some relatively common, but many rare. They may be assessed by neurologicalexamination, and studied and treated within the specialities of neurology and clinical neuropsychology. Neurosurgicalnursing is a s...

Tiny cues shape your days and, compounded, shape your destiny. Catalyst Habits shows why your brain obeys triggers instead of willpower and teaches a four step “Catalyst Method” to hijack those cues for good: spot the current trigger, hitch a two minute micro routine onto it, reward the win instantly, and let compounding do the heavy lifting.James Mackenzie breaks the process into environment design, habit stacking, identity based change, and the inversion strategy for breaking bad...

THE Indian’S CONDITIONS OF SETTLEMENT. The conditions which govern the Indian’s occupation of his Reserve are, probably, so well known, that any extended reference under this head will be needless. He ceded the whole of his land to the Government, this comprising, originally, a tract which pursued the entire length of the Grand River, and, accepting it as the radiating point, extended up from either side of the river for a distance of six miles, to embrace an area of that extent. The Gover...

Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book was created from an amalgamation of the most commonly used words in fantasy and science fiction novels over the previous decade.

Hope is a cornerstone of human existence. Hope may even define what it means to be human. It is such a visceral emotion that it can be even more enduring than love. For when love fails, the hope for love can endure.Three individuals, eagerly pursuing their own version of hope, arrive on the idyllic island of Owls Nest. Believing they will find hope through the others, they soon learn that they must find it alone.Sitting alone on the funeral parlors porch, Beth Morgan slowly...

The complete BBC radio adaptations of Alexander McCall's bestselling seriesInspired by Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, 44 Scotland Street started life as a serial in The Scotsman. It was a huge hit, and was soon novelised, adapted on stage and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. Collected here are all five radio series, in which we follow the interconnected lives of the residents of adjoining flats in a tenement in Edinburgh's Georgian New ...

He wants her soul. Too bad she already sold it. Family is everything to gambling den darling, Teresa Valentini. Blood comes first, especially before men. So when her brother lands himself in hot water, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to save him. And showing up topless in her unwitting savior’s motel room is turning out to be the furthest thing from a hardship…Will Caruso is the bad boy of New York’s financial scene…and he just found out the very thing that drives his success is a da...