The Poisoning of the POTUS is a political thriller in which three patriotic Americans-an FBI agent, a teacher, and a scientist-are recruited by former government officials in a dangerous plot to assassinate the president of the United States, a president who has suspended civil rights and is moving the nation toward a fascist dictatorship. To avoid civil unrest, the three must make the president's death seem natural.

An important and little-known chapter of Michigan's Civil War history, drawn from the letters, diaries, and regimental records of the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment.As volunteer engineers for the Union army, the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment was made up of skilled artisans, craftsmen, railroad men, and engineers whose behind-the-scenes work was crucial to the Union victory. Charged with maintaining the Union supply line in the wes...

Dripping Silence is a new form of expressive poetry. Its poetry based less on self experience, and more on self observance. Dripping Silence occurs when you want to say something, but for some reason it won't come out your mouth the right way. Dripping Silence is when you wish you had the nerve, another opportunity, or chance to say exactly how you feel.

Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires.Born Chester Burnett in 1910, the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hardscrabble youth as a sharecropper in Mississippi. He began his career playing and singing with the first Delta blues stars for...

Victor Ernest Hoffman: the Shell Lake MurdererIn the early morning of August 15, 1967, the peaceful silence of rural Saskatchewan was shattered by an unthinkable act of violence. Victor Ernest Hoffman, driven by psychotic command hallucinations and a belief that he was battling demonic forces, entered the Peterson family farmhouse and murdered nine people, including six children. The only survivor was four-year-old Phyllis Peterson, spared by a killer who claimed s...

Based on the latest current scholarship, Atlas of the Biblical World features striking full-color maps and insightful commentary to make the ancient biblical world come alive. The complexities and questions that accompany the responsible study of the ancient world and its intersection with the biblical narrative are addressed through innovative map design and analysis. Sharp commentary that accompanies each map provides factual data, addresses questions of interpretation, and loca...

Die 50 besten Romane zu Weihnachten offenbart eine beeindruckende Bandbreite literarischer Stile und Erzählweisen, die von den fantasievollen Reisen Jules Vernes bis zu den zeitlosen Märchen der Brüder Grimm reicht. Diese Sammlung verbindet meisterhaft historische Romantik mit scharfsinniger Sozialkritik und bietet eine erlesene Mischung aus klassischer und moderner Literatur. Die ausgewählten Werke sind in verschiedenen Epochen und Kulturen verwurzelt und bieten dem Leser eine kaleidoskop...

I had seriously reached a point in my life where I wasn't scared of anything. Panic was replaced by awww, shit, how can I fix this before I hit the ground?Childhood for Mat Hoffman was packed with hazardous behavior and a constant searching for a new rush: sliding down the laundry chute, blatantly misusing a trampoline, leaping off the roof holding an umbrella, executing a two-story bomb drop into a swimming pool on a bike, and more. After experimenting with his bike on a plywood r...

Since the publication of Daniel Pinchbeck's "Breaking Open the Head" there has been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics in general and mushrooms in particular. Professor Carl Ruck has been researching and writing about mushrooms and culture for decades, and is one of the preeminent scholars on classic mythology and mushrooms. The many people who follow news and developments in the psychedelic community will embrace “Mushrooms, Myth, and Mithras” as a classic and will be fascinated by ...

Diese Sammlung enthält die Geschichten, die den Geist von Weihnachten widerspiegeln; die Bücher, die die Lehren der Hoffnung, Vergebung und Dankbarkeit vermitteln: Der Weihnachtsabend (Charles Dickens) Ben Hur (Lew Wallace) Heidi (Johanna Spyri) Wolfsblut (Jack London) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Vor dem Sturm (Theodor Fontane) Trotzige Herzen (Wilhelmine Heimburg) Der Maskenball (Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem) Trix (Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem) Jane Eyre...

In der beeindruckenden Anthologie '50 Klassiker für Weihnachten' wird der Leser auf eine literarische Reise durch die weihnachtlichsten Werke von 30 renommierten Literaten aus verschiedenen Epochen und Kulturen mitgenommen. Diese Sammlung verkörpert eine unendliche Bandbreite an literarischen Stilen - von den geistreich verspielten Abenteuern eines Jules Verne bis zu den tiefsinnigen psychologischen Einsichten Fjodor Dostojewskis. Das übergreifende Thema der Sammlung ist die Erkundung der ...

Diversity plays an important role in how people experience illness and healthcare as patients. Listening carefully to stories of how race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and disability can affect patient experience can be revealing and provide much needed change to health communication in the patienthood narrative. This book is a collection of vibrant and engaging essays by scholars of narrative methods in health communication. Each chapter takes readers into the fascinating world of patie...