The Kennedy assassination has produced a number of conspiracy theories based largely upon intriguing questions, speculation, and inference. Thousands of books and articles have been written about the assassination with a large majority of the published material arguing for a conspiracy of one kind or another. However, a relatively small volume of literature has been written from a scholarly and academic perspective.The Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald provides the first comprehensive sch...

Political assassinations and terrorism have both outraged and fascinated the public throughout American history, particularly in the modern era. Providing biographical summaries of more than 100 assassins and terrorists, this book aims at a more complete understanding of the motivations behind violent extremism.The lives of the subjects are analyzed with a focus on psychological and ideological factors, along with details of investigations and criminal trials. Conspiracy theories a...

This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape constitutional law concerning rights in the criminal justice process. It was an era in which the Court produced many hotly-debated decisions concerning such issues as capital punishment, searc...

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a k...

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diaboli...

When a quiet half-elf boy finally awakens his passive skills, everyone laughs.He doesn’t mind. He’s never cared much for fitting in—small talk, training-yard politics, any of it. But the strange passive he’s given isn’t useless. It’s rare. It’s wrong, in the way powerful things often are… and it comes with hidden abilities no one else can see.Abilities that could change the fate of his kingdom.Because something is s...

A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous ...

The eighteenth Tarot card is the Moon, and those who raise their arms to her know she offers Mercy and Severity in equal measure. This is the great river at night, where wolves howl and all doors are open. All futures are possible, and every truth is elusive. This is the source and passion of Eighteen: Stories of Mischief & Mayhem. These twenty-four stories from voices—old and new—celebrate the inevitability of fate, the horror of prophecy, and the shivering delight of not knowing...

Are you ready to ace your UK Driving Theory Test and hit the road with confidence? Whether you're a first-time driver or looking to refresh your knowledge, this comprehensive guide is designed to make your theory test preparation simple, effective, and stress-free.The UK Driving Theory Test can feel like a big hurdle, but with the right tools and strategies, passing it can be easier than you think. This book provides a clear, step-by-step approach to mastering every aspect of the t...

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.This box set includes:SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH (A Colorado K-9 Unit novel)by New York Times bestselling author Laura ScottOfficer Autumn Riley and her K-9, Bear, are jolted awake in the middle of the night by an intruder—and just barely escape the shots fired their way. When rancher Jordan Clarke, who has b...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Tim Ellingwood has a penthouse apartment, an overpaid job, and a knock-out girlfriend. It’s just enough to keep him happy, so long as he can soak the haunting memories of his time overseas in enough booze and sex to keep the voice in his head quiet - without drowning his own soul first. Then he meets Will Flint, a mysterious neighbor who convinces him to try for more. They risk everything and set out on an epic adventure that takes them...

You have never met reality directly. You have only ever known the version your mind lets in: filtered, steadied, narrowed to what you can handle and what you cannot afford to ignore.That narrowing is what makes experience possible, and most of the time it runs quietly beneath awareness. But its grip can become impossible to ignore: the deep groove of an addiction that a person understands completely and still cannot climb out of, or a moment in an altered state when the boundary be...