PREDICTING STORMS - The Adventure Begins Third Edition 2024. BY ROBERT ELLIS The full colour book shows ordinary people how to predict a storm long before it is even visible to radar or satellite. Many lives can be saved by using the simple rules explained in the book. As many as 500,000 people worldwide may die in large storms each year. Traditional weather forecasts can currently only give around 13 minutes' lead time for tornadoes spawned by supercell thunderstorms. The Tornado Early Wa...

When a businessman arrives home to find his wife in bed, carved from belly to throat with a very sharp knife, the elite Robbery-Homicide division of the L.A.P.D responds in full force and Detective Lena Gamble prepares for her first major case.At first all fingers point towards the victim’s husband, but best-case scenarios only happen in films and it soon transpires that this murder is one of a series of brutal crimes against women and the work of a killer dubbed ‘Romeo’ by the rav...

He was hiding in the shadows, staring at her. And he was close. He must have crept around the row of cars when she turned her back. They were alone. All alone . . .When disgraced LA homicide detective Lena Gamble is finally given a new case, she suspects she's being set up. The body of a young woman is discovered in a rubbish truck on Hollywood Boulevard. There are no apparent witnesses, and no clues. Just a naked body - badly mutilated, and gruesome enough to ensure that, once aga...

During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won the Kleist prize and was recognized as one of Germany's best playwrights. Indeed, during the years of the Weimar Republic, the popularity of his works was unquestioned. His first play, Die Wandlung, was soon sold out and required a second edition; his dramatic works and poems were translated into ...

To live and die in L.A. … Der eiskalte Thriller »Todesqual« von Robert Ellis jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Los Angeles: Eine schwangere Frau wird brutal in ihrem Bett ermordet. Der Hauptverdächtige ist ihr Ehemann, die Beweislast scheint erdrückend. Doch Detective Lena Gamble von der L.A.P.D. hat ihre Zweifel – sie erkennt verstörende Parallelen zu einem längst gelösten Mordfall. Hat sie damals den falschen Mann hinter Gitter gebracht, während ein Serienkiller noch immer im nächtlichen L.A...

Los Angeles – Stadt der Engel, Stadt der Schatten … Der packende Sammelband »Todesqual, Leichengift & Todesakt« von Robert Ellis jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. TODESQUAL: Eine schwangere Frau wird in Los Angeles brutal in ihrem Bett ermordet. Der Hauptverdächtige ist ihr Ehemann – doch Detective Lena Gamble von der L.A.P.D. erkennt verstörende Parallelen zu einem längst gelösten Mordfall. Hat sie damals den falschen Mann hinter Gitter gebracht, während der wahre Killer noch immer Jagd auf O...

Wenn dein »Freund und Helfer« zum Feind wird: Der fesselnde Thriller »Leichengift« von Robert Ellis jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Los Angeles – Stadt der Engel, Stadt der Schatten … Ermordet, zerstückelt, in einen Container geworfen wie Müll: Die Leiche der jungen Frau ist nicht mehr zu identifizieren. Noch bevor Detective Lena Gamble am Tatort eintrifft, sind die Bluthunde von der Boulevardpresse zur Stelle – und verfolgen sie fortan bei jedem Schritt. Doch nicht nur die Presse behindert ...

Der Tod lauert im Herzen von Hollywood: Der fesselnde Thriller »Todesakt« von Robert Ellis jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Als Lena Gamble, Ermittlerin des Los Angeles Police Department, nachts zu einem Tatort gerufen wird, erwartet sie ein grausames Blutbad. Im angesagtesten Nachtclub der Stadt liegt die Leiche eines Mannes – brutal hingerichtet durch zwei Kopfschüsse: Jacob Gant, der wohl verhassteste Mann von L.A., seit er in einem Medienspektakel beschuldigt wurde, eine junge Frau vergew...

In The Games People Play, Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations. Using historical narrative and social analysis to enter the debate on sport as religion, Ellis shows that modern sport may be said to have taken on some of the functions previously vested in organized religion. Through biblical and theological reflection, he presents a practical theology of sport's appeal...

"A refreshing look at this vital spiritual and psychological issue. Well-written and well-organized, this book will prove to be invaluable to many."R. Scott Stehouwer, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist,Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Calvin UniversityBible psychology predates human psychology by thousands of years. By the time Freud and his colleagues pieced together a few foundations of human psychology, the Bible had been putting them forth for centuries. Moses was a...

On Detective Matt Jones’s first night working Homicide in LA, he’s called to investigate a particularly violent murder case: a man has been gunned down in a parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his bullet-riddled body immediately pegged as the work of a serial robber who has been haunting the Strip for months. Driven by the grisliness of the killing, Jones and his hot-tempered partner, Denny Cabrera, jump headfirst into the investigation. But as Jones uncovers evidence that links the crime...

This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War, it offers a new way to look at institutions and to consider their connections to wider issue...