What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on...

What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs to belligerent birds, the stories in this collection enter the rabbit hole to explore its hidden corners and winding ways. Through all the variety, what they have in common is originality, creativ...

How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth?What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the...

The second installment of this saga of gangland lore follows gregarious gangster, Michael Hardy, further down his twisted criminal path. The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to twelve years in the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother's counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her love and respect.Once he's released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts ...

"A captivating and different kind of story" about the life of Bugsy Siegel's godson, from the author "who captured his voice" (Nick Pileggi, author/screenwriter of Goodfellas and Casino).In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy is rejected by his mother so she can run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy's godfather. Shirley Rook rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As the Queen of New York City crime, she laundered Mob money, ran the city's large...

"The Pariahs" is an undercover thriller that sees two detectives forced into witness protection after breaking the blue code. Living now as husband and wife, the Pariahs assume their new identities and are set loose in central Illinois. Their investigation takes them to strip clubs, college campuses, diners, a casino, and a river boat. Will two protagonists, with different styles, learn to work and live together? The case has stumped local police for over a year. A young woman, strangled, ...

This book was unknowingly written by Bradley Jesse “Beej” Larson, a twenty-two year old college student who died in a tragic van/truck accident on April 26, 2006, just three weeks shy of his graduation from Taylor University, Upland, Indiana and two months before matriculating to University of Wisconsin Law School. Over the months since his death, we discovered six years of diaries, starting from his junior year in high school and continuing to two days before his death, a prayer journal h...

This work has all the gripping excitement of the American west in postbellum America and the operations of the seventh Cavalry in and around the Little Bighorn valley. Heart stopping cavalry charges, desperate solders surrounded and cut off from the rest of the command, forced to fight their way out, the Indigenous struggle to freely live a life they had lived for thousands of years, and the gut-wrenching sadness the futility of war producesExcept for Will and Jake, all the charact...

After having a heart attack at sixty-five, I decided to get fit because apparently my response to nearly dying was to make exhaustion a competitive sport. Eventually, I became fit enough—or mentally unstable enough—to compete in duathlons, bike fondos, and time-trial events.When I turned seventy, I wanted the year to be epic. Evidently, cake and a quiet dinner were out of the question. Instead, I planned a fondo, a half marathon, a full duathlon in July, another duathlon in August,...

• Does it seem like it's getting harder to find web marketing that works?• Do you struggle with getting new patients?• Are your competitors doing better than you in the search rankings?• Are you confused by all the new media choices?The good news is, it doesn't have to be that way. Your website should be your most valuable and most efficient marketing asset. If it isn't, it is time for a change.Dave Larson has been in the web development and marketing b...

Freelance Bible Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: The Future of Work and Freelance NewbieWhen you think of freelancing, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? You probably think of a writer, novelist, or journalist right off hand. That is primarily because for centuries, the only real job you could have as a freelancer had to do with your mastery of the written word. But this is no longer the case. We’re now living in a time that appreciates freelancers in hundreds of different jobs...