Entertaining and intriguing, "Who Moved My Illusion?" offers wide-ranging musings that stimulate thought on a host of social, political, intellectual, and spiritual dilemmas. Examining topics from themes as diverse as tsunamis and bliss to common sense and war, author David Cain presents personal and spiritual issues in veracious terms, suggesting potential solutions while encouraging readers to come to their own conclusions. Engaging, playful, and thought-provoking, "Who Moved My Illusion...

Infinite Dead is a new, groundbreaking guide to Grateful Dead concerts. Authoritative and entertaining, Volume Two features detailed reviews of every Grateful Dead concert performed in the month of July - over 170 shows, including:Their first performance of Dark Star in over two-and-a-half years, on a Friday the 13th, during a full moon, at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA in 1984The band's maiden voyage at Red Rocks in Colorado, the first of twenty concerts they'...

Infinite Dead is a new, groundbreaking guide to Grateful Dead concerts. Authoritative and entertaining, Volume 1 features detailed reviews of every Grateful Dead concert performed in the month of October—over 200 shows, including: ● The three-set, acoustic-electric performances at The Warfield in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York City; ● Their five-night "final" stand at the Winterland Ballroom in 1974; and ● Thirteen Halloween performances, from their first in 1966 to th...

Keepers of Magic: The Psyche Tree: Book OneBy: David CaineJeremy wants to change the world, but his controlling parents hold him back, claiming his differences would have left him friendless anyway. When the opportunity of a lifetime comes to him, young Jeremy pursues it, running away to join Mrs. Hearther’s School of the Sciences. With his new friends Amanda and Rohan, Jeremy discovers that the “sciences” taught there include magic.However, the school also holds gr...

Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond.The guide outlines innovative projects developed to address the problem, and provides tailored guidance for professionals spanning education, health and social care, and criminal justice. It also offers recommendations for effective multi...

Dessie Harper faces a crossroads in her life. Shes lost her cousin and lover, gained a brother, and carries an unborn child. During a tropical getaway to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dessie meets a captivating man named Danielbut even the prospect of romance cant deter her from what she needs to do. She reveals her situation to her faithful friends, Vicki, Sharon, and Debra. With their help, she formulates a plan to begin the next phase of her life. That plan involves quitting her job, moving to ...

Eighteen-year-old Iren Cunningham is quickly approaching manhood and on the verge of gaining more freedom than he has ever known. But after he chooses to attend Morehouse College, his mother, Dessie, worries that his handsome looks and headstrong attitude would cause him not to take school too seriously. Iren and his best friend, Rob, head to Atlanta, Georgia, with hopes of making their dreams come true. Rob is a basketball player who wants to be eventually scouted for a spot in the NBA. I...

For over 130 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a symbol of the ethics, values and romance at the heart of rugby union. To represent the Lions is the pinnacle for every international player in Britain and Ireland, and the dream of tens of thousands of avid fans who fol-low them. A Lions tour, undertaken every four years to the southern hemisphere, is more than a series of rugby matches played out on foreign fields; it is an epic crusade where the chosen few face a succession...

Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important t...

This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading scholars in the fields of political science, law, and religion examine the roots of the Court’s affirmation of same-sex rights in a number of areas related to marriage and the family including t...

Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends that are often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits, this volume develops comparisons of states with term limits to similar states without term limi...

This book introduces a cutting-edge continuous time stochastic linear quadratic (LQ) adaptive control algorithm for fully observed linear stochastic systems with unknown parameters. The adaptive estimation algorithm is engineered to drive the maximum likelihood estimate into the set of parameters representing the true closed-loop dynamics. By incorporating a performance monitoring feature, this approach ensures that the estimate converges to the true system parameters. Concurrently, it del...