In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is locked inside – a man who has been stabbed in the back. Jimmy London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. He is quick on the trail for clues and agrees to pool his knowledge with Inspector Shelley of Scotland Yard, who is holidaying in the area. Mistrustful of the plodding local policeman...

After experiencing auditory hallucinations, John Perceval was institutionalized against his will for three years. His memoir A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement, was first published in 1838 in London with the aim of exposing the inhumane treatments inflicted on those who likewise suffered—in Perceval's words—"under that calamity."Featuring annotation and perspectives from Lindsey Grubbs, a scholar of the cultural hi...

An essential primer for students of Tennessee history.The first volume in the revived Three Star Series.“This is the greatest calamity that could befall us,” wrote Sallie Gannaway Jamison in 1861, echoing the fears of a generation of Tennesseans. Over the next four years, the Civil War would upend the lives of more than a million residents of the Volunteer State—soldiers and civilians, free and enslaved.The last state to secede and ...

On average, a company will lose 25% of its revenue from an organizational disaster – and that’s the good news. The average cost to have prevented it? Less than one-tenth of 1%. But that’s not the worst of it; in virtually every case, the organization’s leadership will already know this… Cultural Calamity: presents Joseph W. Mayo's breakthrough theory on organizational risk culture. Exploring over a century of such disasters, Mayo introduces his groundbreaking Risk Hurricane model, which id...

The Hess affair requires an understanding of a variety of disciplines and practices: Wartime aviation, political history and human psychology to name but three. Harris and Wilbourn have over an extended period tried to learn as much as possible about all relevant aspects of what is in concert a complicated subject, one that has not yet been satisfactorily explained even after more than 80 years. In the past there have been works that have concentrated on single aspects of the affair; usual...

James Morgan was a notorious gunslinger, until the love of a good woman made him change his ways. Sadly, soon after the birth of their son, his wife Jenna passed away. James tried to drink the pain away, but finally decided that he had to be strong for his son, as well as himself.They moved to the small town of Dusty Hill where the former gunslinger became sheriff and had soon cleaned up the town, making it safe for his son. But complacency set in and Sheriff Morgan wanted more. He...

Sheriff James Morgan liked his job in the sleepy little town in which he was the law. A widower raising a young son, James began corresponding with a mail order bride named Maude Addison, and fell in love. Little did he know that the sweet woman he'd fallen in love with by post was really a notorious outlaw who earned her moniker of Calamity Maude.Shortly after Maude arrived in town, all hell seemed to break loose. First, a gang of outlaws lead by a man who called himself Tex Woods...

The steamer Central America sank on September 18, 1857, taking 560 of its passengers with it to a watery grave. Two days later, American minister Ebenezer Rogers delivered this sermon. In his rousing speech, Rogers argues that God is sovereign in all things, “from the falling of a leaf–to the extinction of a race.” While the tragic events of the world can be hard to fathom, Rogers urges anyone listening or reading to take comfort in the fact that an all-knowing God has directed them.

"The dead walk the land. The dungeon rises. War will move the Heavens and the Earth.Powerful necromancers are on the move, and the dungeon has become a battleground. Without his faithful Wisp, Cal's mind slips—he begins creating traps and monsters that go against his already loose morals.A direct threat from an unexpected force causes Cal's mind to stabilize, but he doesn’t know for how long. Using every resource at his disposal, he works to keep his mind clear while he fun...

This book focuses on threats to the continued viability of Western institutions and practices for which it is not easy to conceive remedies consistent with the Western tradition. Higley argues that structural difficulties in postindustrial societies, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere, threatened troubles that political manipulation by elites might not be sufficient to contain or resolve. Struggling against lethal climate change, politically explosive...

How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial headlines, tracing the rise and fall of free market ideology from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan. Full of wit, sense and, above all, a deeper understanding, How Markets Fail argues for the end of 'utopian' economics, and th...

In the flickering, smoky light of a plastics fire, three men huddle together to plan an escape from the vicious, remote prison camp in which they are held. Little do they know that the horrors on the other side of the fence line will far exceed anything they faced inside... "'The Meat Forest' feels like a nightmare Clive Barker might have if he overdosed on Takashi Miike films and sour milk." - Joshua Jabcuga, Bookgasm "...great horror that has a plot, intere...