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Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting interviews with investigators as well as extensive field observations, it explores their reasons for getting involved, their use of different investigative methods, the interpretive processes by which they individually and collectively 'sense' spirits, the ways in which these processes are influenced by small group power dynamics, and what paranormal investigation ultimately means to those who participate. While focusing on the practices by which investigators 'sense' spirits in small groups, the author also situates paranormal investigation within a broader cultural context and attends to how investigators attempt to legitimize their practice despite being marginalized by both science and religion. A fascinating study of ghosts as an inherently social phenomenon, Sensing Spirits will appeal to sociologists with interests in ethnography, interactionism, cu...

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Audie Award, Fiction, 2013 Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Temple Grandin, Homeland) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time. After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of endi...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm23661623London: Routledge, ...

This step-by-step guidebook describes the most effective, evidence-based way to implement ASI into clinical practice by using a data-driven decision-making approach. Practical information guides practitioners in methodologically understanding the child and creating effective interventions with measurable outcomes. Forms and case examples throughout the text allow readers to efficiently apply ASI in pediatric practice. Highlights include an overview of autism and sensory integration, identifying a child's strengths and challenges, conducting a comprehensive assessment, and measuring outcomes and monitoring progress. Includes a flash drive with forms. Product details Format Paperback | 209 pages ...

What is important to understanding American law? What is important to understanding hip hop? Wide swaths of renowned academics, practitioners, commentators, and performance artists have answered these two questions independently. And although understanding both depends upon the same intellectual enterprise, textual analysis of narrative storytelling, somehow their intersection has escaped critical reflection. Hip Hop and the Law merges the two cultural giants of law and rap music and demonstrates their relationship at the convergence of Legal Consciousness, Politics, Hip Hop Studies, and American Law. No matter what your role or level of experience with law or hip hop, this book is a sound resource for learning, discussing, and teaching the nuances of their relationship. Topics include Critical Race Theory, Crime and Justice, Mass Incarceration, Gender, and American Law: including Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, and Real Property Law. ...

Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years. Product details Format ...

Five months after the events in The Creeping Shadow, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fittes lies. Or does it? This is just one of the many questions to be answered in Book 5 of the Lockwood & Co. series. Will Lockwood ever reveal more about his family's past to Lucy? Will their trip to the Other Side leave Lucy and Lockwood forever changed? Will Penelope Fittes succeed in shutting down their agency forever? The young agents must survive attacks from foes both spectral and human before they can take on their greatest enemy in a climactic and chaotic battle. And to prevail they will have to rely on help from some surprising--and shadowy--allies. Jonathan Stroud once again delivers a rousing adventure full of danger, laughs, twists, and frights. The revelations will send readers back to Book 1 to start...

In The Devil and Philosophy, 34 philosophers explore questions about one of the most recognizable and influential characters (villains?) of all time. From Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion to Bram Stoker's Dracula to Darth Vader to Al Pacino's iconic performance in The Devil's Advocate, this book demonstrates that a little devil goes a long way. From humorous appearances, as in Kevin Smith's film Dogma and Chuck Palahniuk's novels Damned and Doomed, to more villainous appearances, such as Gabriel Byrne's cold outing as Satan in End of Days, The Devil in Philosophy proves that the Devil comes in many forms. Are there any good arguments for the actual existence of the Devil? Does demonic evil thrive in Gotham City? Can humans really be accountable for all evil? Which truths about the Devil are actual facts? Is Milton correct, in that the Devil believes he is doing good? Through the lenses of Jung, Kant, Kundera, ...

18 Erzählungen des Nobelpreisträgers Die beliebte Satire 'Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit' und 19 weitere Erzählungen Weihnachten, Inbegriff eines deutschen Festes im Kreis der Familie, ist für Tante Milla zum Lebensinhalt geworden. Nachdem sie durch höhere Gewalt einige Jahre lang an der von ihr gewünschten ausführlichen Übung des Weihnachtsbaumschmückens gehindert worden ist, kommt es zu einer monströsen Steigerung ihrer Festeswut, die darin gipfelt, daß auch im Juli die Englein noch singen und die Wachskerzen tropfen. Gerade junge Menschen, denen die Butterplätzchen und das 'Süßer-die-Glocken'-Gedudel in den Einkaufspalästen unweigerlich irgendwann zu den Ohren rauskommen, haben diese Satire 'Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit' seit jeher geliebt. Inhalt: - Abenteuer eines Brotbeutels - Das Abenteuer - Die schwarzen Schafe - Der Zwerg und die Puppe - Mein Onkel Fred - Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit - Krippenfeier - Der Engel - Der Lacher - Die Waage der B...

This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system. Showing how the Japanese "miracleaEURO is actively planned, directed, and implemented by a constellation of institutions, government policymakers, and big business, Huber argues that Japan, Inc., can best be compared to a modern military system rather than exclusively to a free-market economy. The author highlights particularly the similarity between Japan's strategic economy and some of the structures and policy dynamics of the U.S. military and shows how Japans economic strategies have the capability of adversely affecting its trading partners. Product details Format Paperback | 173 pages ...

Die größten Wrestlingstars zwischen 1992 und 1998: Im Ring, am Ring, in Studioposen und privat. Product details Format Hardback | 240 pages Dimensions 245 x 306 x 25mm | 2,300g Publication date 01 Nov 2005 ...

Meet Beardo in his second volume! An art school graduate working at a coffee shop, our hero has a new girl, a new mortgage, and no idea how to pay for it all. Find out why Beardo won the 2012 and 2013 Shel Dorf Award for Syndicated Print Strip of the Year-let Beardo grow on you! Product details Format Paperback | 144 pages Dimensions 216 x 216 x 10mm | 372g ...

'BRILLIANT. I don't understand how a book on this subject can be so enjoyable, but it is. I love it.' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Absolutely blew me away... I cannot think of another book in the field that would come close to this. In my opinion it is an essential read for those in the mental health arena and anyone whose relative has been touched with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.' JO BRAND 'Erudite, well-researched, and full of compassion... This book will change the way people understand schizophrenia, and that change is long overdue.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness 'A truly important book. ' MAX PORTER, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny 'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health. it has the ability to change the way people think about mental illness.' JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people i...

This book details the communication and conflict-resolution skills that happy couples use to deal with differences. Psychologist Susan Heitler clarifies the basics of collaborative dialogue and shows how these techniques can be applied to even the most sensitive issues in ways that respond to both partners' needs and help to strengthen their relationship. Use this book to learn strategies for making decisions together, resolving conflicts, recovering after upsets, and converting difficulties into opportunities for growth. Product details Format Paperback | 208 pages Dimensions ...

Fantastical felines Owen and Hercules are ready to help librarian Kathleen Paulson pounce on a killer art thief in this novel in the Magical Cats Mystery series. Normally, the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for celebration. But thanks to the overbearing curator and high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen's life has been completely disrupted. Even Owen and Hercules have been affected, since their favorite human doesn't seem to have a spare moment to make their favorite fish crackers or listen to Barry Manilow. But when Kathleen stops by the library late one night and finds the curator sprawled on the floor--and the exhibition's most valuable sketch missing--it's suddenly time to canvass a crime scene. Now Kathleen, her detective boyfriend Marcus, and her clever cats have to sniff out a murderous thief, before anyone else has a brush with death... Product ...

Las comedias de capa y espada son la rama del teatro de Calderón que más se asemeja al de Lope. Calderón simplificó las tramas de sus comedias y les dio mayor vigor narrativa suprimiendo las escenas públicas que tanto gustaban a Lope y a su generación. El eje de la acción suele ser el amor, los celos y el honor. Los personajes se mueven de acuerdo con el decoro de su nivel social y la acción se funda en el equívoco. Es el caso de La dama duente; El astrólogo fingido; Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar; Hombre pobre, todo es trazas; El alcaide de sí mismo; Guárdate del agua mansa o No hay burlas con el amor. Product details Format Paperback | 162 pages ...

In Defense of the Eschaton is an anthology of William D. Dennison's essays on the Reformed apologetics of Cornelius Van Til. Written over the course of Dennison's many years of study, the chapters in this volume investigate Van Til's theory of knowledge, revelation, common grace, antithesis, Christian education, and the history of ideas, as well as examine key Scriptures to identify the redemptive-historical structure of a biblical apologetic method. In the end, Dennison finds that Reformed apologetics must take eschatology seriously. According to the New Testament, the believer has been transferred by faith in Christ into the final stage of history. As a citizen of heaven, the Christian apologist must defend the eschaton of the age to come against the satanic attacks of this present world. Product details Format ...

If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is the prescription. At a time when so much of what we see and read makes us feel bad, Chicken Soup for the Soul's editors chose the 101 craziest, most embarrassing, and most hilarious stories from thousands of submissions. These feel-good stories will bring a smile to your face, make you laugh out loud and brighten your day. In laughter, we often capture the funniest, if not the best, moments of our lives. In in these 101 true, relatable stories, Chicken Soup for the Soul contributors share what got them laughing so hard that they couldn't stop. Imagine a group of friends sharing their funniest stories with you -- in a package you can hold in your hands. Product details Format Paperback ...

Reinforce the lessons in "Stone Soup" by having children work together to prepare and perform this musical play. This easy-to-produce opera is sure to delight your young actors, your audience, and you--the director. Instructions, lyrics, and a music CD help any teacher incorporate drama, music, and art into the classroom. Hours of extension activities are also provided to connect the production to core subjects. Product details Format Mixed media product | 29 pages Dimensions 213 ...

Twenty souls for his brother's life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away. Samuel's faith often wavers. Diagnosed with HIV and in rapid decline, he hides his disillusionment in the rituals of the priesthood. But when Samson brings him the first blood-signed contract for a young woman's immortal soul, the steamy world of high fashion male models and the quiet decay of a sickly priest begin to writhe against the realities of life, death, and otherworldly power. Brotherly love is a deadly seduction, beauty a dangerous game. Come worship in the brutal temple of Orgy of Souls. Your faith will never be the same again. Product details ...

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Product details Format Hardback | 198 pages Dimensions ...

Following the hugely popular Volume 1 book, Volume 2 gives you a rare insight into Pep Guardiola's Training Sessions and another chance to learn from one of the best coaches in the history of football. The 85 Practices included in this book are: Warm-ups Speed & Agility Exercises Technical Circuits Passing Rondos "Juego de Posición" (Positional Games) Possession Games Attacking Positional Patterns of Play Small to Large Sided Games Taken directly from Pep's training sessions at Manchester City, Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona. This is your chance to practice and apply Pep Guardiola's training sessions to develop your players' speed, agility, technique and positional play - a unique opportunity to improve your team's performance using practices from the highest level. PEP GUARDIOLA PRACTICE TOPICS INCLUDED Training Session Warm-up Exercises (3 Man City) Manchester City Pre-Match Warm-up Speed and Agility Exercises Without a Ball (2 Man City, 1 Bayern...

Asia-Pacific Contemporary Finance and Development collects a well-informed range of fourteen chapters, investigating banking, finance, production, and consumer sectors that are vital shares of modern economies and definitive drivers of growth in the Asia-Pacific economies. The chapters, authored by internationally renowned and experienced academics, showcase the most updated economic and entrepreneurial dynamism in the Asia-Pacific, a large and thriving region that is recognized as a driving force of innovation and economic growth worldwide. From the TPP and the U.S., to short-term cross-currency basis swap and Japanese government bond markets, and from volatility and risk-taking firms and corporate diversification strategy and the political effects of the Corporate Social Responsibility, to consumption propensity and entrepreneurship, this volume of The International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics explores and investigates contemporary challenges and issues facing the As...