“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase “Banned in Boston.”Bankrolled by society’s upper crust, the New England Watch and Ward Society acted as a quasi-vigilante police force and ...

A journalistic account of gay and lesbian life in the diverse gay communities of Thailand, Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and other locales, sheds light on the cultural, political, and social factors influencing gay life.

Life is a marathon, a long drawn out battle with many ups and downs. Life can become a marathon for those individuals, and anyone connected with them, who enter the London Marathon every year. "Life is a Marathon" is a humorous fictional story of seven wildly different yet somehow connected individuals from the same small town who take the plunge and enter the London Marathon for the first time. You will find someone you can relate to amongst an obsessive runner, an overweight jilted wife,...

What if listening to God was easy? What if you could learn how to hear God's voice and hear him speak to you all within fifteen minutes? What if after developing a practice of listening to God, your life was totally transformed? God wants to talk to us, and he doesn't want it to be difficult. With over sixty stories of listening to God interspersed throughout the text, this highly readable book gives a simple method we can immediately adopt to help us hear God's voice on a daily basis. The...

Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts on the environment and food system. In addition, agricultural land use in Africa today faces major challenges including increased costs, climate change and a need to transform to more sustainab...

Offering authoritative, concise coverage of today’s neuro-ophthalmology, Walsh & Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology: The Essentials distills the most vital information from the esteemed three-volume parent text, Walsh & Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, into a convenient, single-volume resource. A practical and intuitive organization provides quick access to the essential information you need to effectively evaluate and manage the majority of neuro-ophthalmic conditions. Written by lea...

Baron Von Stupor is his name, or so he thinks. For the past year the eccentric patient has been living in a mental asylum, struggling to understand himself in a world that doesn't understand him. While he yearns to be able to live a normal life, his long days of checkers and psychological therapy is doing nothing more than despond him further. To make matters worse, Stupor has found a new bully in the egomaniacal William Lanzendorf, who prefers to treat this minimum-security mental hospita...

Are You Ever Overwhelmed by Anger?Do you find yourself getting angry over daily events you have no control over? Has anger been an emotion you would like to do away with, but can't seem to overcome? Have past injustices left you wounded and upset?Rage is today's ruling emotion, and it rips apart communities, families and friends. Authors Neil Anderson and Rich Miller teach how you can manage your anger on a daily basis and overcome the mental strongholds an...

Experience Freedom by EmbracingOne Fear—and Releasing All OthersIt sounds strange, doesn't it? Exchanging your fears for another. But the fear of God has the power to extinguish every anxiety that keeps you from living in hope.Bestselling authors Neil Anderson and Rich Miller want to show you how to let go of the common but harmful fears of failure, evil, and death and find safety in your relationship with God. As you uncover the pat...

Spawn è un eroe diverso da tutti gli altri. Un agente governativo, Al Simmons viene ucciso dai suoi stessi uomini. Risorto dalle profondità degli inferi, ritorna sulla Terra come il guerriero Spawn, per proteggere i vicoli dimenticati di New York City. E cercando risposte sul suo passato, Spawn deve vedersela con le forze oscure che lo hanno fatto tornare sulla Terra, combattendo nemici e scoprendo improbabili alleati. Mentre apprende come imbrigliare i suoi straordinari nuovi poteri, iniz...

1992 wurde eine der unvergesslichsten Figuren der Comic-Geschichte erstmals auf ein nichts ahnendes Publikum losgelassen: Spawn. Und dies sind die Geschichten, mit denen alles begann. Die ersten zwölf Hefte der erfolgreichsten Independent-Comic-Serie aller Zeiten endlich in einem Band. Mit umfangreichem Bonus-Material! Die ultimative Sammlerausgabe für alle SPAWN-Fans! Inklusive der bisher in Deutschland unveröffentlichten Heft-Ausgabe Spawn 10! Die Grundlage für die erfolgreichste Indepen...

The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in "synthesis:" programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective has proven elusive, leaving nearly as many syntheses as synthesizers. This volume considers an...