Written in the form of a conversation with himself, Michael Frensch addresses and answers essential questions about Valentin Tomberg's individuality, work and impact on the 20th century. This helps to clarify many of the misconceptions and misunderstandings about Tomberg. He starts by describing the life experiences arising from his encounter with the life and the work of Valentin Tomberg and how this shaped his destiny. He recounts the circumstances that led him to translate the Meditatio...

Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture. The contributors offer a contemporary analysis of the Southerner in the media. In most cases, previous literature situates these media images in the past, most notably through historic analyses of the Southerner during the Civil Righ...

He’s not the hero they deserve, but he’s the hero they’ve got.No, seriously. Talon wants to know what he did to deserve this. What would make a sentient rock decide that he of all people should be the one to save the world from zombies? That’s right. Zombies. Because apparently a higher power decided that teaching magic to teenagers wasn’t enough of a challenge.With a ridiculously attractive healer (who may or may not hate him), his sister (who he miiiight...

When a body is discovered floating in a Thames river lock one dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to Chiltern Hills. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of two of London’s most renowned opera personalities. And prints on the corpse’s neck suggest that Swann was strangled. As Duncan and Gemma explore the quiet woods above the Thames and the flamboyant world of London opera in search of answers, they discover a tangled w...

Book I of the Pete Stone, Private Investigator SeriesWhen Mrs. Lucille Hamilton walks through his door searching for her missing husband, Stone is skeptical but willing to take her case. Some men don’t want to be found. But the husband’s body turns up, and his death is ruled a suicide. Stone is the only one who listens to her pleas and agrees to search for answers.Corporate espionage, deep betrayal—nobody can stand between Pete Stone and the truth.A...

The purpose of this Primer is to explain the principles of Experimental Evolution. It illustrates how evolution experiments should be properly designed to examine fundamental principles of evolution and answer big questions in biology. The need for this primer has increased with the recent advances in genomics, because the functional significance of genetic variation is not easily understood without an evolutionary lens. We believe that experimental evolution can take a leading role in mee...

A young woman is stabbed to death in Wichita. Within hours police nab a suspect and put him behind bars. The case is open and shut, until a university professor calls on Pete Stone, Private Investigator, to prove that the suspect is innocent. He hires Stone to find the real killer. Stone harbors doubts about the professor and his motives; the professor is keeping secrets of his own. Another murder, too similar to the first killing, leaves puzzling clues that point to the professor. Is he a...

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime AuthorThe murder of Sarah Payne, Adam the Thames Torso, the London bombings, the Night Stalker and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko... The solving of all these cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, a Charlton Athletic fan from Woolwich, a natural raconteur and also one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen.Ray began work for the Met Police in the 1970s when forensi...

This book addresses a topic of vital concern to the church: How does the ancient biblical text speak to us today? Michael Graves, an expert in ancient exegesis, describes how Old Testament texts interpret earlier Old Testament traditions, explores New Testament reception, and explains how insights from this process translate into present-day biblical interpretation. Graves clearly explains and illustrates this approach with fulsome discussions of five themes that are addressed in various w...

Pete Stone and Cocky Wright met on a baseball field, a pair of boys with skinned knees, lots of moxie, and a friendship that lasted long after time stole their youth.Now, Cocky is dead, his widow and daughter are in danger, and shady characters are after something he was hiding. All Cocky left behind was a key and lots of questions. Was he dealing secrets to the German American Bund? Was he a threat to the safety of the country? Was his death an accident or murder?When his ...

She knows she’s going to die when he’s finished with her, but there’s nothing she can do to save herself. Her head is spinning, and her eyes are heavy. She never should have accepted his offer to escape to his place in the country. But she thought she knew him…The badly decomposing body of a woman is found in a farmer’s field and shows signs of bondage and torture. A ring on her finger leads to an ID and confirms a young officer’s suspicion. She’s ...

From the creator of Jurassic Park and ERLeagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it.For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it’s his last chance at a big payday. But t...