This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die? In secular thought, the standard answer is simple: we disappear into oblivion. David Harmon takes us in a different direction, by making the case that a nonconscious portion of our personality survives death—literally, not figuratively—and explains how this kind of naturalistic afterlife can be emotionally relevant to us while we are still livi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.If you've always wanted financial freedom but living paycheck to paycheck feels like a life sentence, then keep reading…Are you sick and tired of watching your hard-earned cash vanish before the month is even over? Have you tried restrictive budgets and complex spreadsheets but nothing seems to work for more than a few weeks? You see, building lasting wealth doesn't have to be difficult. Even if you've failed at...

There is a never-ending recession lingering overhead and the specter of things ever returning to their previous peak seems unlikely. Politicians speak of solutions as the economy struggles to gain traction, but no-one thinks much about those at the bottom rung. Left to fend for themselves in a dying industrial city, homeless duo Horace and Alvie stumble their way through life. Their only goal is to survive. But when things take an unexpected turn for the worse, they are forced to separate ...

The Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies presents various areas of Baptist life and thought, both historically and in the present, while offering reflections on the nature of Baptist Studies as an academic discipline. The volume is organized in four parts. The first traces the development of Baptist churches in the centuries since the first Baptist church in 1609, up to the present day when Baptists are a major Protestant denomination in over 134 countries. New studies track the gro...

This fine collection of vintage mysteries from the pulp magazines presents 13 tales sure to thrill the armchair detective. Included are:HANDS OF DOOM, by David H. KellerEVIDENCE, by Murray LeinsterTHE DRUMS OF DEATH, by J. Allan DunnHAIR OF THE CAT, by Robert TurnerHELL’S SIPHON, by George Harmon CoxeDIBBLE DABBLES IN DEATH, by David Wright O’BrienCLOSE TO MY HEART, by Chester S. GeierTHE RAG-TAG GIRL, by Norbert DavisMASTER O...

This study is the story of the local Civil Rights Movement and race relations in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1981. Most examinations of the Civil Rights Movement have been written from a national perspective. These studies have presented local African American protest movements as part of a national campaign for civil rights that lasted approximately from 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, to 1968, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this context, demonstrations in Montgom...

In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this comple...

Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed the theoretical and methodological tools with which to study this topic. Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest marks the first book-length study of prehistoric religion in the region. Drawing on a rich array of empirical approaches, the co...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the shadowed halls beneath Houston, a circle of gifted psychics holds a secret: the world hums with unseen harmonies—but not all echoes are benign.When a European collider experiment goes catastrophically wrong, latent psychic frequencies erupt in violent resonance. Instruments melt. Scientists collapse under shared visions. And a beam turns into a psychic railgun capable of unraveling the weather across an e...

Couldn't attend the conference? Pick up the book!The Internet has been called a revolution, and it is; both in the ways that people and institutions communicate with each other, and in the ways that resources can now be shared. Professionals in the information field share a mandate to enable current and future generations to make use of this technology.From Carnegie to Internet2: Forging the Serial's Future is derived from proceedings of NASIG's 14th Annual Conference, held...

In the shadowed halls beneath Houston, a circle of gifted psychics holds a secret: the world hums with unseen harmonies—but not all echoes are benign.When a European collider experiment goes catastrophically wrong, latent psychic frequencies erupt in violent resonance. Instruments melt. Scientists collapse under shared visions. And a beam turns into a psychic railgun capable of unraveling the weather across an entire continent.This is the fertile ground for a psychi...

Among pivotal historical moments in the United States, the civil rights movement stands out. In Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, David G. Holmes offers an original rhetorical analysis of six speeches delivered during the 1963 civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Holmes frames his analysis within the biblical concept of prophecy. However, he stresses the idea of prophecy as sociopolitical...