John Snyder's memoir of growing up the the Depression era south evokes a time gone by. It is written with affection and non-judgmental understanding of people dealing with hard times, sometimes with cruelty, sometimes with violence, including an unsolved case of arson that changed the author's life. In three parts, it is about early childhood among North Carolina mountaineers, living for a time with two eccentric aunts, and growing up on a sharecropper farm before the author went away to t...

Smart, sharp and downright daffy, 123 Weird Facts About Absolutely Real Made-Up, Improbable, Fantastic People, Places and Events is a big hit with kids and clever adults. Written to inform, entertain and inspire audiences of all ages, the book delivers a vast and dazzling territory bursting with people, history, geography, heroes, food, weather, legends, laws and customs. If your child or student loves story, words and whimsy, start here. The perfect e-reader companion.“Dragons! Sn...

JOHN SNYDER'S memoir of growing up in the Depression era south evokes a time gone by. It is written with affection and understanding about people dealing with hard times, sometimes with cruelty, sometimes with violence..including a mysterious case of arson that forever changed the author's life. In three parts, It is about early childhood among North Carolina mountaineers, living for a time with two eccentric aunts, and growing up on a sharecropper farm before the author went away to colle...

The video game industry has quietly evolved from an entertainment medium into the most sophisticated, highly unregulated behavioral laboratory in human history. Under the guise of colorful, free-to-play mobile applications, massive international technology conglomerates are deploying weaponized casino psychology to systematically extract billions of dollars from a highly addicted, mathematically disadvantaged global player base. This investigation deconstructs the aggressive, algorithmical...

Ernie Brandts of the Netherlands scored a goal for each team and injured his own goalkeeper in a 1978 World Cup match against Italy. Liverpools Robbie Fowler was suspended for four games and fined for pretending to snort the white chalk endline while celebrating a goal. In 1970, after El Salvador defeated Honduras in a World Cup qualifying match, the two countries severed diplomatic relations, and a four-day Soccer War broke out, in which more than 10,000 people died. A 1995 match in South Af...

Genre—the articulation of "kind"—is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable, let alone viable. By combining theory with dialectical literary histories of three significantly different genres—tragedy, satire, and the essay—John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power.One purpo...

Estranged from his family, a grieving father begins a journey towards redemption and forgiveness in a story full of love and the spirit of Christmas.

With the advance of science and technology, there have been breakthroughs in the field of classical research and methods of map projection. Among these, computer science and space science have had the greater influence upon the field of research and the formation of a working body of map projection, developing them in breadth and depth. This book reflects several aspects of the development of modern mathematical cartography, especially the theory and methods of map projection transformatio...

Map projection concerns the science of mathematical cartography, the techniques by which the Earth's dimensions, shape and features are translated in map form, be that two-dimensional paper or two- or three- dimensional electronic representations. The central focus of this book is on the theory of map projections. Mathematical cartography also take

In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think twice about taking that long-awaited cruise, going for a midnight swim, or taking your next sh...

***Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Anthology category***Want to see something weird?Embrace the odd? Satisfy your curiosity? Surrender to wonder?From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-winning co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between...

A new generation of teachers envisions a liberal arts education that is good for everyone.Why would anyone study the liberal arts? It’s no secret that the liberal arts have fallen out of favor and are struggling to prove their relevance. The cost of college pushes students to majors and degrees with more obvious career outcomes.A new cohort of educators isn’t taking this lying down. They realize they need to reimagine and r...