Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social dimensions underpinning the experience of sport. By challenging the idea that sport offers an “escape” from reality-a realm separate to the politics of everyday life-each chapter critically considers the unconscious desires, fantasies, and fears that underpin the sporting spectacle for...

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy-an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect economics to the human good. Economics as a discipline deals with the production and distribution o...

The doorway to the unknown……is always opened with the key of imagination.Step through…if you dare.Ideal for fans of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. Journey into a world where only the echoes of reality exist. The Boy Beneath the Bridge, The Last Transaction, The Wall, Waiting for a Table, and nine more tales that will keep your lights burning.The Boy Beneath the Bridge: Journey with a young boy suffering from Down's Syndrome as he is confronted by bullies...

Broadening its scope to nonstatisticians, Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis, Third Edition provides an accessible introduction to the foundations and applications of Bayesian analysis. Along with a complete reorganization of the material, this edition concentrates more on hierarchical Bayesian modeling as implemented via Markov chain Monte Carlo (

Ross needed a pacemaker……what he got was a trip through hell.And the nightmare was just beginning.Ross was a scientist, a loving husband, and dedicated father. When an illness struck, all that changed. In the blink of an eye, everything he knew and cared for was about to disappear.Sometimes……death is just the beginning.It started with a mild cold and a case of mistaken identity. Too late Ross learns when man plays god, the outcome is always t...

In A House That Hungers For More Than Blood...No One's Soul Is Safe!Annabel and Brian have lived their whole lives in the town, and they really should have known the history behind the old Wickersham place before they decided to buy it.Behind its façade hides a horrific secret dating back to 1697. On All Hallows Eve, a deal was struck. A deal was forged in the fires of hell, and now it waits, hiding in the shadows.Waiting for the next soul to arrive...

The relic was found……and hell came with it.Could this be the end of everything?Sheriff Jack Dougherty runs a peaceful town. But when a convenience store clerk is murdered and two deputies go missing, things begin to unravel. He would soon learn some things were beyond the law.Jack never believed in the supernatural……but a ghost in your kitchen is hard to explain.It began with the arrival of a powerful relic and mysterious stranger. The small ...

Timothy, a man awash in self-doubt and plagued by nightmares of the past, turns to the bottle and a life of no responsibility as a hobo, jumping trains and moving from town to town.Unfortunately, no one can escape themselves or their past entirely. For Gabriel Timothy Jacobs, a priest who has lost his faith, that truth must be learned the hard way.When a dark stranger shows up and expresses an interest in the former priest, his past and future, things begin to unravel, and ...

A Historical Fiction tells the story of the challenges and triumphs of negro leaders and courageous men lobbied and established the first black Army Officers Training School during WWI. There were very few negro Army officers and none in the Marines and Navy. Breaking that barrier would knock down a door that might open up opportunities and prove that black men could lead men in battle and succeed.

South Street is a brilliant, heartfelt portrait of Black urban life and a man grappling with the messy, uncontainable truths of life, love, and survival.Philadelphia’s South Street in the 1970s is a place of sharp contrasts. On one block, working stiffs swap stories with winos at Lightnin’ Ed’s bar; a few doors down, gangsters and sex workers navigate a world on the edge. The neighborhood hums with life, even as the old guard ages out, the disenfranchised ...

Locke Be A Lady Tonight, book #2 in the Singular Ladies Series, is a tale of love, courage, Biblical truth & faith, and self-sacrifice in defense of dear two-legged 'deer,' couched in truthful themes.In the first sequel to A Singular Lady: A Most Singular Lady, Marie Stephenson’s dearest friend Chernobyl 'Shirley' Locke, who resigned her prestigious tenured graduate school professorship to return to America, with her younger sister Nanushka, and Nan’s clo...

A Resolute Woman: Resolute Daughters of God, book #6 in the Singular Ladies Series, is a tale of love, courage, Biblical truth & faith, and self-sacrifice in defense of dear two-legged 'deer' & others as directed by the LORD, couched in truthful themes.In the fifth sequel to A Singular Lady: A Most Singular Lady, Marie’s family pursues the man of Satan’s left hand, to prevent him from accomplishing his mission, or, failing that, to delay him succeeding in...