Do you know where reality ends and nightmares begin? And can you sense the strange, thin curtain between the real and the unreal, the natural and the supernatural?It began with a chance meeting, the casual showing of a photo and a remark: 'My sister-in-law looks like your sister-in-law.' And from that, a strange series of events take place.Jane and her husband Adam are on their way to a make-or-break second honeymoon. As their train pulls into Oxford station, she gets a sud...

DOWN THESE DUSTY TRAILS…Saddle up for a wild ride in this all-new volume of original short stories that explore the untamed lands and rugged characters that define the western frontier. From outlaws and lawmen to cowboys and frontiersmen, these tales capture the rough and tumble spirit of the West in all its glory and danger.Lawless brings together thirteen of today's best writers, each offering a unique perspective on the American frontier. From a boy caug...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences.This volume examines the idea of levels of organization as a distinct object of investigation, considering its merits as a core organizational principle for the scientific image of the natural world. It approaches levels of organization--roughly, the idea that the natural world is segregated into part-whole relationships of i...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economi...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up seventeen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangen...

The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influenceAs a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, illuminated the lives of ordinary people, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: The Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and Vietnam. Yet hi...

Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour’s work. Editors Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers have assembled leading and emerging scholars in order to focus the debate on what Latour means for the study of persuasion and written communication.

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY—Christmas Carols & Poems gathers sacred hymnody, traditional carols, devotional lyrics, comic verse, children's poetry, and reflective seasonal meditations into a capacious literary portrait of Christmas. Spanning Renaissance song, Romantic reverie, Victorian domesticity, and later popular verse, the volume moves between Nativity solemnity, winter landscape, communal celebration, and playful festivity. Familiar carol forms stand beside richly literary poems, incl...

The Greatest Christmas Carols & Poems encapsulates the rich tapestry of thematic depth and stylistic diversity that characterizes classic literature. Echoing through its pages are the sounds of yuletide and reflections on human values such as hope, generosity, and community spirit. From the serene to the celebratory, the collection showcases a variety of literary forms—ballads, sonnets, and narrative poems, among others—united in their exploration of Christmas and its cultural resonance. S...