After Bill Banes is killed in a spectacular but mysterious car bombing in England, O'Toole volunteers to go to London to bring back his friend's remains. Before he knows it, he's involved in a many-leveled conspiracy that becomes much more complicated than the murder it initially appeared to be.O'Toole follows up on the one consistency in the sketchy chain of evidence: Bill Banes' continuing fascination with a 1978 earthquake in the western United States.From the hundred mi...

O'Toole is back. Once again in over his head and going beyond his authority to help a friend, he is shanghaied, shot up, shot at and left for dead before he begins to recover and realizes that what looked like a plain vanilla biological-warfare-gone-wrong-with-the-concomitant-threat-to-the-world case has a lot more facets than first met the eye.A young doctor who works at a humanitarian research facility high in New York's Adirondack Mountains is found -- near death-- by a couple o...

The consumption of dairy products, made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats and buffalo, among other mammalian species, is almost as old as human civilization, with evidence of these products stretching back many millenia. The production of different kinds of dairy products originated as different ways to preserve the valuable nutritional goodness of milk components (lactose, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals) and make the milk safe for consumption, using basic principles like fermentati...

The book will contain a detailed description on the historical aspects of cheese manufacture, a culmination of historical information on the most traditional and worldwide popular Italian cheese varieties. An overview on cheese production is also included, covering the main general aspects. An overall classification of Italian cheeses will follow, aiming to categorize all the cheese varieties that have a tradition and/or an economic importance. Based on a large literature review, the core ...

What statistical improbability does something need to have before you will believe it is a miracle? The book, "Bible Code Statistics: President, Trump, Corona, Virus, World, Infected, Recovered, Fox, Media, Russia, China, Israel, Native, Invisible, War, Leader, Continuous, Sabotage" from the "Bible Code Statistics Series" is D.Patrick Bickerdike's new release and attempt to enjoy another side of the Bible and maybe learn a few things in the process. He found a matrix which appears to have ...

This captivating book uncovers the intriguing story of the Fox Sisters, who sparked the 19th-century spiritualist movement with their mysterious phenomena. It explores their lives, the cultural backdrop of their time, and the techniques they used to create seemingly supernatural messages from spirits.Delving into the mechanics behind their illusions, the book also examines the societal impact of their demonstrations, from media sensationalism to scientific skepticism. Readers will ...

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their own teaching. Filled with step by step descriptions and positive student feedback, these chapters ...

This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on the nutritional benefits of milk.The first chapter highlights the important role of milk and dairy products in human diets due to the amount of energy (calories) they provide and their ability to compensate for foods in the diet with lesser nutritional value. The chapter also reviews the dairy matrix concept and how this matrix can influence human physiology.The second chapter provides an overview of ma...

Wikipedia gets over 300 million visitors on the typical day. One man wants to bring that number down to zero. That man is renowned social commentator Huckleberry J. Shawshank, the most anti-Wikipedia person in the world. In I Don't Like Wikipedia, So I Wrote My Own Encyclopedia, Shawshank explains the issues that he has with Wikipedia, and he follows that up with an entire encyclopedia that he wrote himself. The book gives you an in depth look at a wide variety of topics--and if you read s...

Emilia Fox (Silent Witness, Rebecca, Merlin) stars as troubled newly wed Bella Manningham in this brand new full cast audio production of the classic thriller Gaslight. Despite seemingly having every advantage and an outwardly doting husband, Bella is being driven slowly mad... but can the cause of her madness truly be her husband? What is the dark, terrible, secret lurking in his past, and where does he disappear to each evening? Left alone in her dingy parlour with the gaslight periodica...

In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more. This book is devoted to anticipating and addressing where the field of political humor and its effects will move in the next generation of scholarship, exploring the continued evolution of the s...

Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the regionThe Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely known for the major research of the early 1950s. To bring the archaeological record up to date, fourteen Central Valley experts address diverse topics including the distribut...