This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother coun...

Providing help for practitioners to support parents and grandparents during the perinatal period, this book offers advice on how to maintain good mental wellbeing. The authors lay the groundwork for understanding the factors that affect perinatal mental health and offer practical interventions which enhance the practitioners' ability to help both parents.The book looks at the importance of good mental health, the different types of poor mental health, as well as the impact of these...

It is only in recent years that there has been development in the awareness of the father’s mental health. Yet, the father’s mental health can influence the mother, the infant, the family and society. This book seeks to address the reasons why the father or the potential father could suffer from a mental disorder or illness during the perinatal period, his reactions, and what can be done to help him.The book explores the way in which fathers’ mental health has presented in the past...

Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text from the Enlightenment, borrowing or secularizing the format of a sermon on a text, and are d...

The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the historical, political, economic, and cult...

Gary McKeown is a brilliant technologist, a pilot, scuba diver, and world traveler. But when his business partner tries to drown him on a dive boat in Australia, Gary wakes up three years later in a coma. With the help of his sister, Lucy, Gary must piece together his shattered life and track down the person who tried to kill him. But as he gets closer to the truth, Gary uncovers a dark conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. A techno-crime thriller that will keep yo...

Experience four spine-tingling tales of terror in their original screenplay format! The Witching Hour: In 1884, a small, quiet, New England town unleashes its religious wrath on an unsuspecting mother and daughter. Diabolical: A horrifying doomsday plot is uncovered by communications expert Nathan Adams after he and his family move to a small New England town where Nathan has just accepted his dream job. Reign of Terror: When F.B.I. Agent John Salleum investigates a bizarre murder scene at...