For millenniums the priesthood has agrandized the value of believing in God, mostly for their own benefit.The truth is out there, but most religious followers care to ignore it.To believe, or not believe, the choice is yours, and there are no penalties for choosing either.

Ash is James Herbert’s last and most controversial novel. It will make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction.Fear will let you in. Terror will keep you there.David Ash, ghost hunter and parapsychologist, arrives at Comraich Castle – a desolate, ancient place with a dark heart – to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse, fed and now unleashed by the evil of...

Agents of the state murdered his wife and took his son. Now they’re coming for Danny Ash.Framed as a terrorist, the mild-mannered stay-at-home dad, desperate to find his child, has to evade both law enforcement and killers in the pay of shadowy vulture capitalist Victor Fabian, whose influence reaches deep into the White House. Fabian, battling political enemies and the creeping dementia that has him in its grip, is determined to silence Ash who has linked him to his wife’s murder....

In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing upon examples from videogame design and work from post-phenomenology, speculative realism, new materialism and media theory, Ash argues that interfaces create envelopes, or localised foldings of space time, around which bodily and perceptual capacities are organised for the explicit production of economic profit. Modif...

Throughout history there have been villains and heroes. This book is about the Seven Deadly Sins and historical figures sometimes venerated as heroes

In Phase Media, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users' experience of their environment. Rather than networks connected by lines of transmission, smart objects generate phases, understood as space-times that modulate the spatio-temporal intelligibility of both humans and non-humans. Examining a range of objects and services from the Apple Watch to Nest Cam to Uber, Ash suggests that the modulation of s...

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars.This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life:Orienting readers with respect to methodologies, research design, and research ethics.Detailing key research methods, including interviews, surveys, ethnograph...

South of Heaven opens with the kidnapping and horrific murder of an eight-year-old girl on Chicago's South Side. The murder rattled the entire city, and with it being a high-profile press case, investigators were under intense pressure to find a suspect and make an arrest.Enter Detective Sergeant James Fitzgerald, who is tasked with investigating the brutal murder of the eight-year-old. Once a popular and pleasant Chicago detective, Fitzgerald regressed into a cold and callous alco...

Agents of the state murdered his wife and took his son. Now they’re coming for Danny Ash.Framed as a terrorist, the mild-mannered stay-at-home dad, desperate to find his child, has to evade both law enforcement and killers in the pay of shadowy vulture capitalist Victor Fabian, whose influence reaches deep into the White House. Fabian, battling political enemies and the creeping dementia that has him in its grip, is determined to silence Ash who has linked him to his wife’s murder....

One wild night with a bad-boy billionaire led to two pink lines on a little blue stick. Now, three hot-as-sin hockey stars are saying I belong to them.Carter, the tattooed hottie with a body built for sin, was supposed to be a one-night escape. But now, I'm the Chicago Icebreakers' new physical therapist, and the team's golden boy is back in my life—setting me on fire every time he's near.His bruiser teammate Axel, my brother's best friend, is all smolderin...

The first book in the No. 1 Times bestselling series‘This is terrific stuff’ Daily Telegraph‘A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era’ Financial Times‘A masterclass in how to weave a well-researched history into a complex plot’ The TimesOver 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!A CITY IN FLAMESLondon, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes ever...

One steamy ride at 30,000 feet led to two pink lines on a little blue stick. Now, three men want to be Daddy this Christmas.I was just trying to rebuild my life after everything fell apart. Moving in with Troy—the grumpy hockey star—wasn't part of my fresh start plan. Neither was falling for him and his tattooed playboy roommate, Jamie—a goalie god with muscles for days.But these men came to my rescue… in the bedroom, the kitchen, against the wall... they r...