This fully dramatized audio adventure with sound effects and music is a follow-up toThe New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 1, which was a finalist for the prestigious Audie® Award in 2009.Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as "minor," and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman. Marty's lady friend, Helen Venn, turns to th...

The Ketamine Papers opens the door to a broad understanding of this medicine’s growing use in psychiatry and its decades of history providing transformative personal experiences.Now gaining increasing recognition as a promising approach to the treatment of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other psychological conditions, ketamine therapies offer new hope for patients and clinicians alike. With multiple routes of adminis...

A myth-busting pamphlet that charts a course out of the current cost of living crisis, focusing on Britain's current economic situationWe are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening?Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has "printed" too much money or that events far away, such as the war in Ukraine, are solel...

Master identity solutions and strategies and prepare to achieve Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator SC-300 certification Purchase of this book unlocks access to web-based exam prep resources such as mock exams, flashcards, and exam tipsKey FeaturesGain invaluable insights into SC-300 certification content from industry expertsStrengthen your foundations and master all crucial concepts required for exam successRigorous mock exams reflect...

Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political candidates use the media to frame their discourse? What responsibilities does the media have in maintaining or promoting democracy? In this broadly interdisciplinary volume, top scholars in communication, political science, sociology, law, and philosophy offer new perspectives on these and other intersections within democratic discourse and media. Interweaving elements of...

The web services architecture provides a new way to think about and implement application-to-application integration and interoperability that makes the development platform irrelevant. Two applications, regardless of operating system, programming language, or any other technical implementation detail, communicate using XML messages over open Internet protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. The Simple Open Access Protocol (SOAP) is a specification that details how to encode that information and ha...

M.R. James' classic mystery about a disappearing and reappearing hotel room, can you guess the room number?

In this thrilling story from the world's #1 bestselling author, after losing the love of his life, a defense lawyer takes a lifeguard job at the beach ... but he's in for the wildest part of the summer yet.Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a lifeguard job at the beach. But there's one wave he'll never see coming ...BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James ...

An orphan discovers his foster father has evil plans for the children he takes in, past...and present.

Midland was a young farming and ranching community on the southern edge of the Llano Estacado when the real-photo postcard era began near the opening of the 20th century. Businesses, residents, and promoters embraced this new technology to produce images capturing Midland's unusual rural-and-cosmopolitan mix. As postcards changed to linen and chrome, Midland also underwent dramatic changes. The city on the plains worked hard to become an indispensable part of the vast 1920s Permian Basin o...

An archaeologist unearths an ancient crown said to protect England from invasion. It is also rumoured to be protected by unnatural powers. Powers that will seek to restore the crown to the earth and punish those that remain.

Welcome to Volume Three of what is on the way to becoming the world's largest collection of quality, classic horror short story audiobooks.This volume starts with the famous M.R. James' story of occult revenge, 'Casting the Runes', about a slighted occultist out for murderous revenge and using his diabolical black arts to achieve it. It was adapted into the equally chilling movie 'Night of the Demon' in 1957.Next up is another famous classic, WW Jacobs' 'The Monkeys Paw', a...