During the era of slavery in the Danish West Indies, a distinct Africana heritage religion was developed by the enslaved population that relied on performative expression, and Gregory Carter traces this heritage.This spiritualty shared many attributes with other African heritage religions throughout the African Atlantic, including belief in spirit powers, the veneration of ancestors, polyrhythmic music, dance, costumed masquerade performance, reliance on herbalism ...

Have you heard about the little-known nerve that can drastically change your life?In your body exists a very special nerve that can control your emotions, health, happiness and hormones. Scientists and doctors are now getting more and more interested in this secret nerve than has the potential to be an "off button" for inflammation-related diseases, depression, anxiety and even cancer.In this outstanding book, you are going to reveal the secrets of the Vagus...

Have you heard about the little-known nerve that can drastically change your life?In your body exists a very special nerve that can control your emotions, health, happiness and hormones. Scientists and doctors are now getting more and more interested in this secret nerve than has the potential to be an "off button" for inflammation-related diseases, depression, anxiety and even cancer.In this outstanding book, you are going to reveal the ...

Under Watchful EyesBy: Carter GregoryBen met Edna in Sydney, Australia during the tumultuous time of World War II. Ben wishes to join the army at fourteen, but his mother insists he becomes a priest, causing friction in the home. When Ben and Edna run away and spend an innocent day together, their mothers become furious, and Edna and her family move three thousand miles away to Perth. Ben's mother tells him nothing of Edna's whereabouts. And Ben becomes desolate.Ben...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book also explores emotional eating in real-life settings at work, at home, and in relationships offering realistic strategies that work in busy, imperfect lives. Setbacks and slip-ups are addressed with honesty and reassurance, helping you move forward without quitting or falling into all-or-nothing thinking.Most importantly, this guide is about building confidence with food and with yourself. It encourage...

The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. Howard, and many more. A choice selection of tales!THE DEAD MAN, by Gene WolfeBRIGHT STREETS OF AIR, by Nina Kiriki HoffmanTHE DOLPHIN AND THE DEEP, by Thomas Burnett SwannTHE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Clive JacksonTHE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo

The Hangman’s Psalm: The Girl at the GallowsBy: Carter J. GregoryPublic hangings were great sport in 18th century London. Mobs of cursing men and shrieking women would turn out to witness a doomed man being hauled to the scaffold where the hangman, Jack Ketch, awaited him. The spectacle was given an aura of sanctity when choirs and bells pealed out hymns in praise of God, and the doomed man was required to recite the damning words of the biblical Psalm 51: “Behold I was shap...

On the Border with Crook is a definitive firsthand chronicle of the Indian Wars, tracing General George Crook's campaigns from Arizona's Tonto Basin to the 1876–77 northern plains. Shaped from field diaries, Bourke's prose splices brisk operational reportage with topographical precision and ethnographic notice, portraying scouts, soldiers, and Native leaders with rare sympathy. Logistics, intelligence-gathering, and the moral costs of irregular war receive as much weight as battle action, ...

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic...

Our 105th issue features a pair of original mystery stories, one by Steve Liskow (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and one by the late Henry T. Parry (revised and completed by me). Parry published more than two dozen mystery stories from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, and his daughter was kind enough to pass on his unfinished and unpublished work, which will be appearing in BCW in future issues. We also have a mystery tale by Stephen D. Rogers (courtesy of Acquiring E...

Not another textbook, but a valuable tool for doctors and microbiologists wanting to know how to set up a PCR diagnostic microbiology laboratory according to current regulatory standards and perform assays supplied with patient clinical diagnostic criteria and easy to follow protocols. Whether laboratories are using commercial kits or in-house methods developed in their own laboratories or adopted from published methods, all clinical microbiology laboratories need to be able to understand,...

Pluto was the last place anyone expected to find life. That's why it's the last place they looked.