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Holding the photograph in his hands, Oxford stared into his, dead wife's face...stared deep into those eyes that had him captivated him. The window to her soul, but he couldn't get over the fact that concealed behind that windowpane lay many secrets. And then something shocking happens when he is hired by an ex-con to look into a twelve year old cold case. Soon he is consumed by the investigation. Has he done the right thing by digging up the...

Jacob Zvi has turned his back on everything he was taught to value. His faith, his family, his citizenship, and even his morals. Yet seemingly divine fate introduces Jacob to the struggling members of an Orthodox congregation in the middle of ghetto in New Orleans while terrorists explode a purloined Soviet nuclear artillery shell atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But things quickly take a turn for the Biblical, for the worthy dead are ret...

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Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year's later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the n...

How does organizational culture affect the health and productivity of its members? Why do people like to do business with certain organizations more than others? In what way does organizational culture retain members and grow with new members? What is the process for an organization to become a household name? I found certain dysfunctional patterns in organizations that prevented them from becoming a healthy organizational culture that could p...

Andrew Fox shows how to predict and assess the most dangerous terrorist threats likely to emerge in the near future in order to focus on countering them.

Portly vampire Jules Duchon is in a whole heap of hot water with the High Krewe of Vlad Tepes - the fearsome Triumvirate, rulers of the High Krewe, have learned that Jules brought his vampire wife Maureen back to the land of the undead using body parts stolen from three High Krewe women. Seeking revenge and a restoration of their lost honor, the Triumvirate hire a deadly Japanese super-hero assassin, Hiro Mitsuba, the Matter Master, to rub out...

200 colour images of steam railway operations in Austria both narrow and standard gauge in the post-war years.

Manchmal schnell, manchmal beschaulich - so ging es bis 1976 noch mit Dampf durch die Alpenrepublik. Ein Muss für Dampflokenthusiasten ist dieser eindrucksvolle Bildband, zusammengestellt aus bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos britischer Eisenbahnfreunde, erinnert an die letzte große Blütezeit der Dampflok in Österreich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Andrew Fox, ein exzellenter Kenner der österreichischen Eisenbahnen, berichtet in seinem neuen Buch...

Science fiction is NOT a safe space!¿Two short novels and three stories by the author of Fat White Vampire Blues push the boundaries of taboo in science fiction. An English archeologist who yearns for the love of a young Jewish refuge sets out to convince a majority of the world's population that the Holocaust never happened - hoping to not only wipe it from the annals of history, but also from reality. The Martian colony Bradbury sends an inv...

Hurricanes and vampires and superheroes... oh, my!Following the events of Bride of the Fat White Vampire and The Bad Luck Spirits' Social Aid and Pleasure Club, Jules Duchon and his vampiric family suffer through Hurricane Antonia's devastating floods. In an emptied city, where will they get their blood? Salvation arrives from a highly unlikely source: a trio of Japanese superheroes working with the International Red Cross. But the help of Bon...

A tie-in to the Fat White Vampire Series, takes place between Bride of the Fat White Vampire and Fat White Vampire Otaku. An epic urban fantasy set in New Orleans. A confederation of trickster and bad luck spirits, each sprung from the fears and imaginations of a different ethnic group inhabiting South Louisiana, scheme to magnify the inadequacies of the leadership of the Big Easy in advance of the approach of a tremendous hurricane. Their pla...

Science fiction is NOT a safe space!In this companion volume to Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction, fourteen stories by Ian Creasey, Andrew Fox, David Wesley Hill, Liam Hogan, Claude Lalumière, and other writers from around the world push the boundaries of what is considered taboo in science fiction. From a society where telling an insult joke is a capital crime to one where letting your faucet drip m...

This book explores lived experiences of college students that represent late Millennials and Generation Z with a post- modern/post-Christian worldview. The qualitative method of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to reveal what those experiences were, and four interpretative lenses were used that revealed how the perception of those experiences can be understood.The research involved 425 students from St. Edward's Universi...

Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts from key cases and writings in this incredibly dynamic field of law. The authors' expert commentary and questions enliven each topic and emphasize the practical application of the law in its business context.

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Nytrax - Das Phönixsiegel" ist ein High-Fantasy-Roman voller Magie, rätselhafter Geheimnisse und ungleicher Liebender.Wenn sich die Prophezeiung bewahrheitete, würde der schwarze Phönix nicht nur seine Stadt, sondern mit ihr alles Leben im Universum vernichten.In Andralon, der letzten Hochburg der Menschheit, beginnt Nytrax' Reise in eine Welt, in der sich der Mond mit bloßem Auge erklimmen lässt. Bewaffnet mit kaum mehr als Büchern, durchbric...

Das waren noch Zeiten, als die eleganten 01er in Oberfranken ihr letztes Refugium gefunden hatten, Kohle- und Stahlzüge durchs Ruhrgebiet mit Dampf befördert wurden und im Weserbergland tagtäglich der Klang der dreizylindrigen 44er durch die Täler dröhnte. Doch 1977 endete bei der Deutschen Bundesbahn (DB) unwiderruflich der planmäßige Einsatz von Dampflokomotiven. Mit dem Abschluss dieses letzten Kapitels einer glanzvollen Geschichte ging in ...

The Editors of this unique volume asked some of the world's leading emotion researchers to address 14 fundamental questions about the nature and origins of emotion. Each chapter addresses one of these questions, with often divergent answers from the more than 100 experts represented here. At the end of each chapter, the Editors highlight key areas of agreement and disagreement. In the final chapter, they outline the most important challenges f...