The Life and Legacy of One of History's Most Fascinating MagiciansThelema is one of the most powerful and influential systems of magick the world has ever known. But to truly understand the philosophy and practice of Thelema, you need to understand its charismatic founder, Aleister Crowley. Thelema reveals this enigmatic figure in all of his provocative and brilliant glory, providing a biography of Crowley and showing how his work evolved to become a parad...

Occupation and Insurgency details German policies towards civilians and captured military forces in the Soviet Union from 1941-1945 and examines them in the context of the laws of war. The results of these policies illustrate how an occupying force can establish a sense of legitimacy or spur a stronger resistance among the local citizens. While focused upon World War II, the book is very relevant to todays war on terror and the handling of current counterinsurgency scenarios....

The Practice of the Body of Christ begins a conversation between "apocalyptic" interpretations of the Apostle Paul and the contemporary revival in "virtue ethics." It argues that the human actor's place in Pauline theology has long been captive to theological concerns foreign to Paul and that we can discern in Paul a classical account of human action that Alasdair MacIntyre's work helps to recover. Such an account of agency helps ground an apocalyptic reading of Paul by recovering the cent...

This "fascinating" biography of a South African-born warrior provides a window into a full century of military conflicts (Adam Makos, New York Times–bestselling author of A Higher Call).Four-War Boer traces Pieter Krueler's highly colorful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a fourteen-year-old scout, to his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa to the Spanish Civil War to World Wa...

In 1996, the world witnessed an unprecedented psychological phenomenon. Millions of people, from children to corporate executives, became intensely, genuinely emotionally attached to a low-resolution clump of black pixels on a tiny keychain screen. When their Tamagotchis "died," owners experienced real grief. This bizarre fad was not a marketing accident; it was a masterful hack of human biology. Evolution has hardwired our brains to respond to specific caregiving triggers—hunger cries, vu...

This book is not a theological treatise. Like it's predecessors "Walking On The Inside" and "Value Added Christianity" it is a compendium of the problems of basic pastoral ministry, hopefully with some help in moving ahead. Like the author, all Christians are expecting to live in the heavenly realms when they leave this earthly life. What is failed to be realized is we are living in it right now and what we are doing presently is setting us up for aeons of heavenly ministry ahead as we con...

*Shortlisted for The Business Book Awards 2025*The essential guide for organizations to understand how toxic cultures form, identify the warning signs, and take effective action to address and prevent them.In recent years, the media has been rife with stories of toxic workplaces - from reports into public institutions such as the police and healthcare trusts, to allegations from former employees at the likes of Twitter and the Ellen DeGener...

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation. RoN refers to a diverse set of legal developments that seek to redefine Nature's status within the law, gradually emerging as a novel template for environmental protection. Countries like Ecuador and New Zealand, each with distinct histories and ways of dwelling in the world, have pioneered a new era in environmental governance by legally acknowledging rights o...

In Samurai to Soldier**, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan.** In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji institution of compulsory military service was the foundation of Japan's efforts to save itself from the imperial a...

He was a Thoroughbred racehorse, proud and noble, with the blood of champions coursing through his veins. Though he was a beautiful specimen to me, that noble blood coursed through the veins of a racehorse who was offered for sale at a thousand dollars and was purchased for eight hundred. He was not, and would never be a champion to anyone but me. When he strolled casually into my life in the early spring of 1987, I gave him a once-over and followed him to the barn. He had been to ...

The extraxial-axial theory (EAT) and universal elemental homology (UEH) are often portrayed as mutually exclusive hypotheses of homology within pentaradiate Echinodermata. EAT describes homology upon the echinoderm bauplan, interpreted through early post-metamorphic growth and growth zones, dividing it into axial regions generally associated with elements of the ambulacral system and extraxial regions that are not. UEH describes the detailed construction of the axial skeleton, dividing it ...

An unexpected enemy assault on the star dreadnought Kalypto forces its security chief, Warden Cylus, to take decisive action against the invaders, leading to a confrontation with an adversary of supernatural strength.(A short story set in the Entropy's Slaves universe.)