This fully illustrated guide to modern acupuncture technique explores the foundational skills of the craft from a primarily energetic perspective, showing how perfecting these skills can have a profound effect on the practice of Chinese Medicine. The goal is for the clinician to be able to fully grasp what they are doing on the channels and the tissues with each of the classic manipulation techniques in a way that has hitherto been unexplored in technique textbooks, which tend to focus on ...

Epiphany Gale has never believed the stories her Grandpa told her; never believed in gods or angels. When her Grandpa is murdered by agents of the sinister High Church however, her whole world is turned upside-down, as with his dying breath he entrusts Epiphany with a secret that her family has been keeping for generations. She is torn out of her comfortable life mendinag clothes on the edge of a half-drowned world and catapulted into a race against time, hunted by the very forces she didn...

Kyle stepped out for a midnight hit of nicotine, what he got was a hollow point shot of adrenaline. Primal fear and raw instinct are all he has in this hyper violent fight for survival.

Epiphany Gale has never believed the stories her Grandpa told her; never believed in gods or angels. When her Grandpa is murdered by agents of the sinister High Church however, her whole world is turned upside-down, as with his dying breath he entrusts Epiphany with a secret that her family has been keeping for generations. She is torn out of her comfortable life mendinag clothes on the edge of a half-drowned world and catapulted into a race against time, hunted by the very forces she didn...

Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of elite categorizations of contemporary US television programming that center on HBO and it...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Catastrophic storms, searing heat waves, crumbling waterfronts, warming oceans, air-fouling forest fires and mass extinction have become facts of life. Under these conditions, it is difficult to imagine that the global industrial civilization will continue in its present form. This requires us to reconsider the subject of ecocomposition from a new perspective: “What does it mean to teach college writing in the face of this sobering reality?” The introduction reviews the history of ecocompo...

White evangelicals have struggled to understand or enter into modern conversations on race and racism, because their inherited and imagined world has not prepared them for this moment. American Southerners, in particular, carry additional obstacles to such conversations, because their regional identity is woven together with the values and histories of white evangelicalism. In Know Your Place, Justin Phillips examines the three community loyalties (white, southern, and evangelical) that sh...

When the line between saviour and sinner blurs, who do you become?In the shadow of a U.S. military base in Naples, Italy, Navy paramedic James Rush is teetering on the edge of disgrace. After his latest reckless stunt, he’s faced with a choice: a dishonourable discharge or a dirty deal. Chief Palmer offers him an illicit lifeline—moonlight as his courier, ferrying designer drugs to Naples’ elite.Thrown into a volatile partnership with Dani, a cunning local ...

The topic of privacy has become a priority for boards, the executive leadership team, and privacy and security leaders alike. Regulations including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and sector-specific regulations including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) all require important treatment of personal data, personal information, personally identifiable information and protected health inf...

With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through original data. Thad Kousser and Justin H. Phillips argue that negotiations over the budget, on the one hand, and policy bills on the other are driven by fundamentally different dynamics. They c...

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of fa...