This comprehensive guide to the flags of the world provides concise, accurate coverage of every country in the world, giving the history, meaning, and symbolism of national flags, together with large-scale and smaller locator maps. The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition includes the history of flags, the color flags in over 220 countries and territories, flags of international organizations, large-scale and detailed locator maps for easy reference, up-to-date data a...

It's 1881...Murderous outlaw Seth Granger and his gang, Granger's Dozen, have terrorized southern Louisiana for several years. From their cabin hidden deep in a swamp, Seth leads his men in roughing up homesteaders, businesses, and peaceful Indian villages for a "protection fee".When Chief Red Bear and his peaceful Choctaw village refuse to give in to Seth's threats, the gang decides to make an example of them by slaughtering the entire village... every man, woman, and chil...

Nine tales await you in this new collection of horror and suspense from Clive Carpenter."La Piedra Maya" - A stone from an ancient Mayan temple has a deadly surprise in store for the woman who stole it."Scritching" - A camper is awakened when his tent is invaded by creatures so creepy they will make your skin crawl."The Thing in the Hall" - A man wakes up in the middle of the night to find a blood-thirsty creature standing at his bedroom door."Beneath the Cl...

BRAIN MATTER is a collection of 6 original horror and suspense tales with a little something for everyone. From werewolves and grim reapers to walking corpses and heartless psychopaths, this short story collection explores a wide range of content in the horror genre.In CONFESSION, a newspaper reporter visits a dying old woman in a nursing home to chronicle her life's story, only to learn that she has been harboring a gruesome secret for almost six decades.In LUNATIC, a man ...

Young Andre Mitchell is a gifted football player who is adept at dodging tackles and dodging trouble. In junior high he was a star. But now---in high school---Dre must not only make the grade in the classroom, he must hold his own on the field and in the streets.At John L. LeFlore, Dre is a small fish in a pond full of piranhas. He's uncertain if new love interests can be trusted or if old puppy love can mature. All of this becomes even more complicated when a run-in with ...

A Relationship Destined to be Off the Record...Ian Stirling, publisher of the Daily Herald, is rich, powerful, and undeniably sexy. Never good combination in any man. Especially in a man who’s about to offer a job of a lifetime to young reporter.Merideth Gardner is tenacious, curious, and brilliant. When she leaves her interview at the Daily Herald ready to give up on her dream of working for a daily city paper fate intervenes. All she has to do is help Ian...

The corona-virus global pandemic is here. Back to normal could be a matter of years. Giving to churches is plummeting. So is the economy, leaving church members with less to give. Many congregations are forecast to go out of business. The survival of our churches is at stake. As church leaders scratch their heads to figure out how to triage the church's declining income, this book provides guidance for how to fund the church's mission and ministry during a global pandemic of unknown length...

The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman is a compact but revealing documentary study of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts criminal case: the poisoning of Captain Codman and the prosecution of enslaved people under the archaic doctrine of "petit treason." Written in an antiquarian-legal style, the work reconstructs indictments, proceedings, punishments, and public memory, placing colonial slavery within English common-law categories and...

The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (Vols. 1 & 2) is a richly illustrated survey of Britain's maritime and coastal identity, moving from busy commercial docks to fashionable resorts, fishing towns, ruined castles, cliffs, bays, and estuaries. Its prose combines topographical description, antiquarian notice, and picturesque sentiment, while the engraved views place it within the early nineteenth-century culture of illustrated travel books, where lan...

Vladimir Putin: Authoritarianism and Anti-Americanism gathers analytical perspectives on the ideological, strategic, and rhetorical foundations of contemporary Russian power. Framed by questions of authoritarian governance, nationalist legitimacy, and opposition to American influence, the volume examines how Putin-era politics have reshaped domestic institutions and international alignments. Its style is policy-oriented yet scholarly, combining historical interpretation, strategic assessme...

Simon Dubnow's History of the Jews in Russia and Poland (Vol. 1–3) is a monumental account of Jewish life from early settlement and medieval communal organization through the partitions of Poland, tsarist domination, pogroms, emancipation debates, and modern political awakening. Written in a lucid, documentary style, it combines archival narrative with moral interpretation, placing Jewish communal autonomy, suffering, and resilience within the broader currents of Eastern European history. ...

The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (Vol. 1–3) gathers foundational writings on the Salem witch trials and the broader crisis of belief, law, and providential interpretation in late seventeenth-century New England. Moving between sermons, documentary narration, polemic, legal testimony, and retrospective controversy, the collection reveals how supernatural fear was translated into public authority. Its most arresting materials juxtapose defenses of spectral evidence and clerical interpr...