A 'Grocery' Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Supermarkets Future explores the extraordinary transformation from American Supermarkets Past - including the meteoric rise over the past 20 years of national / discount grocers Walmart, Target, Costco, Amazon, Aldi, and Dollar General - to Supermarkets Present. It reviews the importance of scale, grocery M&A and regulatory attempts to curtail it, as well as the potential consequences of these dynamics in alternative versions of Supermarkets Future...

Two aliens, Anu and Matrona, who first made their appearance on Earth 5000 years ago to help mankind develop civilization, return after a 2000 year absence. And they're pissed. Instead of cleaning up our mess again, they choose seven humans, calling them angels, teaching them the ways of universal love and joy. Can the angels spread the message in time? Will their opponents succeed in stopping them? Will Anu and Matrona destroy humankind and turn the planet over to the dolphins?

Can a tormented secret agent save the universe without sacrificing his humanity?It’s the year 2115. Corporations have turned most planets into desolate wastelands and the Galactic government into their own immoral regime.Secret agent Joshua Boehm finds himself in the most dangerous battles of his career. He struggles to balance his professional life fighting extremist political cartels and an over-zealous general with his personal life yearning for a more meaningful existen...

Joshua Boehm is an intergalactic spy, loner, womanizer, and a recovering addict. He loves his job, but he also wants something more; the truth and a normal life.Successfully completing his latest mission, Joshua is informed of The Teapar Coalition, a sinister political organization planning to take over the Galactic empire by pillaging planets of their natural resources, replacing organic food with GMO’s, and the demoralization of the Galactic Senate.After a discussion with...

SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The first volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: The Guts of Myth – Carson Winter It' s 1973. British-American thug Byron is tasked with finding the occultist Allosaurus D' Ambrosere, given only handwritten instructions and two hateful associates. Where they' re going, they' ll find blood red skies, obsidian towers, and a deep thirst for violence. But will they find the man who calls him...

Who was Moses, really?From Hebrew slave to Egyptian prince to God's chosen deliverer, Moses' story is one of the most extraordinary in all of Scripture. In this book, learn how Moses finds his true identity face-to-face with God himself.Through the exploration of the biblical, historical, social, and cultural contexts, biblical scholar J. Daniel Hays offers a biographical account of the life of Moses, illuminating the person that G...

When an ancient staff in the Birmingham Museum flickers to life-its shadow twisting into fire-archaeologist Dr. Elias Navarre, Vatican paleographer Sofia Conti, and Israeli ex-agent David Halevi are drawn into a race across Europe to stop a secret order from unleashing biblical power. From flooded crypts beneath Sainte-Chapelle to the storm-lit canals of Venice, they chase the stolen relic and decode millennia of hidden texts that trace the Staff of Moses through royal treasuries and forbi...

These challenging times demand that Christian churches and their leaders faithfully and effectively address diverse global situations with Gospel-rooted compassion and justice. These essays argue that public theology provides the trinitarian theological framework which fuels wise and compassionate public participation in God's mission within the world today. Public church leaders from the Global South and Global North join their voices to explore the global implications of public theology ...

"An intriguing narrative . . . A complementary blend of scripture, ancient legends, history, and archaeology, it will stir your curiosity." —Lorraine Evans, Egyptologist and author of Burying the DeadIn this groundbreaking work, the authors reexamine humanity's most enduring account of bondage, emancipation, and freedom. The Great Exodus is the story of how one man, empowered by divine epiphany, brought the mighty ancient kingdom of Egypt to its kn...

Arguably the biggest blockbuster love song ever composed, the Song of Songs holds a unique place in Jewish and Christian canons as the “holiest” book, in the minds of some readers, and the sexiest in its language and imagery. This commentary aims to interpret this vibrant Song in a contemporary feminist key, informed by close linguistic-literary and social-cultural analysis. Though finding much in the Song to celebrate for women (and men) in their embodied, passionate lives, this work also...

This book is a compendium of key scientific questions, challenges, and opportunities across different areas of exoplanetary science. The field is currently experiencing rapid growth, and the book provides a front-row view of the advancements at the cutting-edge of the field. Each chapter contains a short exposition on the most important open questions, challenges, and opportunities in a specific area from the perspective of one or more top experts in the area. It provides a starting point ...

In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies r...