2024 Spur Award Winner!2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner!Grand Prize Winner for the 2023 Chanticleer Laramie Award for Americana Fiction!"A novel as compelling as the incredible true story it's based on." James Wade, two-time Spur Award-winning author of Hollow Out the Dark.When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank just before Christmas in 1927, no one expects him to pull a gun.

If you like epics like Leon Uris and James A. Michener, you may like the shorter, Road From Odessa: A heartwarming thriller where jazz and the mafia collide in Ukraine, New York and New England - A Family's Century of Sin and Song. The book captures Goodman's active imagination and evokes the reader's deepest emotions. It tells the tale of an Eastern European immigrant family who has the determination, resilience, and willingness to do whatever it takes to survive. In the port city of Odes...

Relationships take work. But just what is that work?We — Mardi Thomas Goodman and Shelley Pomerantz — are therapists and relationship consultants who have been practicing for three decades. Over the years, our personal and professional experiences have led us to develop The Inner Power Process, an approach to relationships that helps individuals deepen the intimacy and passion they share with their partners. Now we want to pass on our years of learning to you.

Looking for a convenient language course that gets you speaking Mandarin Chinese in hours, not years? The Michel Thomas audio courses have helped over five million language learners to master a new language, with no writing, no stress and no memorisation.Perfect for absolute beginners, little or no prior knowledge of the language is needed for the Foundation course. The audio course provides everything needed to build your confidence and start speaking.During the course, yo...

Would you like to improve your spoken Mandarin Chinese and gain the confidence to take part in everyday conversations with other Mandarin Chinese speakers? The Michel Thomas approach makes language learning feel natural. Learn without stress, pressure or homework and see genuine results that you can use straight away.Designed for anyone with a basic understanding of Mandarin Chinese, or anyone who has already completed Michel Thomas Foundation Mandarin Chinese, this six-hour audio ...

What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget**.** - Michel ThomasExperience significant results in a remarkably short period of time thanks to the unique Michel Thomas Method, perfected over 50 years by celebrated psycholinguist Michel Thomas. The method works in tune with how the brain prefers to receive, store and then retrieve information. You'll stick with it, because you'll love it.* Improve your Mandarin Chinese naturall...

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) – human rights commissions and ombudsmen – have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political science, sociology and human rights practice, ...

Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France.Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural cont...

A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921–1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary personality among food lovers. The Happy Table of Eugene Walter, which introduces a new generation of readers to Walter’s culinary legacy, is a revelation to anyone interested in today’s booming scene in vintage and artisanal drinks — from bourbon and juleps to champagne and punch — and a southern twist on America’s culinary heritage....

Anthropology, with its dual emphasis on biology and culture, is--or should be--the discipline most suited to the study of the complex interactions between these aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, since the early decades of this century, biological and cultural anthropology have grown distinct, and a holistic vision of anthropology has suffered.This book brings culture and biology back together in new and refreshing ways. Directly addressing earlier criticisms of biological anthro...

Authoritative coverage of more than 70 pediatric procedures, including peripheral IV insertion, sedation and pain management, blood pressure management, gastric lavage, suturing of lacerations, tympanometry, corneal abrasion and eye patching, regional nerve blocks, , and more!Cohesive organization that begins with the ABCs of procedures (airway, breathing, circulatory support) and progresses to a detailed overview of procedures by organ systemImportant section on ...

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, shedding new light on how his administration tied the pandemic to the president’s political fate in an election year and chose partisanship over public healt...