Filmmaker and former radio-host Brian MacDonald explores the complexities of growing up with wounds inflicted by a life shaped by childhood abandonment, abuse, addiction, and broken systems.Presenting raw honesty and gentle reflection, Brian reveals that even the most damaged beginnings can lead to unexpected rebirth. This is not merely a story of hardship; it is a testament to resilience. At age 42 while receiving addiction treatment, the severe childhood trauma's that wounded Bri...

Magic, Mischief, and Mayhem is the second quarterly anthology from House of Loki. Magic, Mischief and Mayhem is not only the title of this book but it is also the motto for everything we do at House of Loki. This book is filled with fairies, dragons, wizards, and witches. We have stories based on fantasy and folklore from around the world by writers from lots of different backgrounds. As soon as the authors saw the artwork for the cover by the amazing Greenspike, they were falling over the...

The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home.From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy...

A wonderful and wide variety of short stories for talented authors.Nicole Givens KurtzRod A. WhiteMike RusetskyBrenda CarreJohn A. TuresDarin KennedyH.K. SladeAaron DaMommioShane PorteousBrian MacDonaldKelly ZimmerSierra JacksonLarina WarnockAna CordobaRosemary Williams

Short Spooky Stories sure to please by these amazing authors: S. Y. Coffelt, Dawn DeBraal, Jenny Perry Carr, Tim Lewis, Marc Sorondo, Melody E. McIntyre, J. E. Tamber, Julie Dron, Robert E. Stahl, Kay Hanifen, Michael La Ronn, C.A. Verstraete, Brian MacDonald, Caitlin Barbera, Sara Jordan-Heintz, Kelly Zimmer

This book explores the discipline of psychology through in-depth dialogues with scholars who have lived at the turbulent edges of mainstream psychology in the USA, and who have challenged the most cherished theoretical frameworks. It includes researchers whose work has been widely esteemed in recent decades, but has ultimately not been taken up to reconstitute the theoretical direction of the field. This volume chronicles perspectives from select scholars on the current states of their res...

At a celebration on Mount Olympus, a golden apple marked “for the most beautiful” appears without warning—setting off a bitter rivalry among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. What begins as a divine dispute soon spills into the human world, drawing Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Hector, and Achilles into the legendary ten-year war between Greece and Troy.Adapted and translated into Ancient Greek by Seumas Macdonald—one of the world’s leading teachers of communicative and comprehensi...

Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide ...

MermaidensThe thing about mermaids is, they have a tail problem.It seems they either want to get rid of their tail so they can walk on land,Or they want to get their tail back, having somehow lost it so they could be on land.Or they fell in love with someone who doesn't have a tail...It never seems to end.All we know for sure is that it's a problem...And that there's always a tale.19 Tales About Mermaids and Their Tails.

Transform Big Data into Insight"In this book, some of Oracle's best engineers and architects explain how you can make use of big data. They'll tell you how you can integrate your existing Oracle solutions with big data systems, using each where appropriate and moving data between them as needed." -- Doug Cutting, co-creator of Apache HadoopCowritten by members of Oracle's big data team, Oracle Big Data Handbook provides complete coverage of Oracle's comp...

Transform Big Data into Insight "In this book, some of Oracle's best engineers and architects explain how you can make use of big data. They'll tell you how you can integrate your existing Oracle solutions with big data systems, using each where appropriate and moving data between them as needed." -- Doug Cutting, co-creator of Apache Hadoop Cowritten by members of Oracle's big data team, Oracle Big Data Handbook provides complete coverage of Oracle's comprehe...

If you're a novice programmer and you want to learn C#, there aren't many books that will guide you. Most C# books are written for experienced C++ and Java programmers.That's why Jesse Liberty, author of the best-selling books Programming C# and Programming ASP.NET, has written an entry-level guide to C#.Written in a warm and friendly manner, Learning C# assumes no prior programming experience, and provides a thorough introduction to Microsoft's premier ....