Ghostly Rites anthology is back again with another spine-tingling collection of short stories and haunting poems that will curl your toes and send shivers down your spine.Get comfy with our largest collection of mysterious, unearthly and brain-twisting tales, written by authors from all over the world.

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

Our world presents daily distractions that can easily displace Christ as the center of a man’s heart and life. The goal of the ESV Men’s Devotional Bible is to strengthen and encourage men through the life-giving Word of God and sound devotional content aimed at nurturing godliness.With 365 theologically rich and gospel-centered devotions drawn directly from the Bible, this all-new resource was created under the editorial oversight of Dr. Sam Storms with contributions from...

Get ready to pass the certification exam on your first attempt by gaining actionable insights into AI concepts, ML techniques, and Azure AI services covered in the latest AI-900 exam syllabus from two industry experts Key FeaturesDiscover Azure AI services, including computer vision, Auto ML, NLP, and OpenAIExplore AI use cases, such as image identification, chatbots, and moreWork through 145 practice questions under chapter-end self-assessment...

Daily Strength, a year-long devotional, walks Christian men through Scripture passages that speak to their most pressing issues. Featuring content from the ESV Men's Devotional Bible, each daily devotion features a short summary of a Bible passage with a thought-provoking message from from one of more than forty contributors. Arranged canonically from Genesis to Revelation with short introductions to each Bible book, Daily Strength encourages and enlightens men t...

Fifteen-year-old Pinky Green has always felt destined for ridicule, until Lucy Miles shows up and flips his world upside down. Lucy is extraordinary, artistic, and hiding dangerous secrets about herself and her father. When her estranged mother washes up on Calamity Beach and her father turns up dead the next day, Lucy disappears, and everyone points the finger at her. Determined to help, Pinky teams up with an unlikely crew: Gilda Montgomery, the sharp-tongued owner of Cockaroost Concessi...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambit...

Daily Strength, a year-long devotional, walks Christian men through Scripture passages that speak to their most pressing issues. Featuring content from the ESV Men's Devotional Bible, each single-page daily reading features a short summary of a Bible passage with a thought-provoking message from author and pastor Sam Storms. Arranged canonically from Genesis to Revelation with short introductions to each Bible book, Daily Strength encourages and enlightens men th...

What if the most important changes in our world didn’t arrive with noise —but with comfort?Mile Marker 2026 is not a book about technology.It is a book about attention.Written as a quiet reflection rather than a warning, this work pauses at a single moment in time — a point on the road where humanity has gained extraordinary tools while slowly surrendering effort, responsibility, and presence without fully noticing the trade.Moving through visible wo...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Human resources directors job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into ...

From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston HughesIn his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwaver...

How is it legally and geographically possible that an 800-square-mile wedge of land sitting right between Egypt and Sudan is claimed by absolutely no sovereign nation on Earth? The bizarre anomaly of Bir Tawil is the last true "terra nullius" outside of Antarctica, born from the absurd arrogance of British colonial mapmaking. In 1899, the British Empire drew a straight, geometric border between Egypt and Sudan. However, in 1902, they drew a second, jagged administrative border based on tri...