Have you ever felt unheard by your physician? In his new book, Dr. Benson Evans provides a shrewd and critical analysis of the failings of the American healthcare system as it relates to patient care.At only 24 years old, Dr. Benson Evans had his first brush with a misdiagnosis. Fatigued, gaining weight, and mounting depression loomed over his head, but the four different physicians he saw over 18 months couldn't decide what was wrong - and their "solutions" never actually solved h...

There has been an explosion of publishing in the faith-work movement in the last twenty years. Work is increasingly seen as the new frontier for Christian mission. However, the church and theological colleges have failed to keep up with the interest among, and needs of, workplace Christians. This book is the urgent corrective that is needed, moving past Theology of Work 101 to much deeper encounters with God's word as it relates to daily work. These twelve academic papers look at work thro...

The long-awaited sequel to 2015's Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears, finds billionaire tech genius Edan Duff and his wife, Jane Garrison, the ex-military pilot and master combatant better known as Sim, repatriated to the United States and back in their cliff side California home. Their return followed a years-long self-imposed exile in Barbados to avoid imprisonment or worse by the ruthless former U.S. President, whose wrath they incurred after permanently disabling the time travel device Edan ...

Body of Work, the 11th entry in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by author David M Benson, opens with the gruesome murder of a wealthy art collector at his waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. Carina, recently out of a brief retirement, had joined the Florida Department of Law Enforcement--the state's FBI--and now headed up the region's Investigations and Forensic Science unit. The nature of the killing prompted Miami Beach PD to request that she join the investigation. Her first ...

The Six Wives of Jenny the 8th centers on rich and beautiful Jennifer York's journey of self discovery, Hollywood success and the six women who infiltrate and infuse her heart. It is a tale of love, lust, jealousy, condemnation and retribution that is both a modern update of King Henry the 8th's marital sagas and a timeless portrait of one woman's personal struggles to navigate her world. The six women's varying stays in Jenny's life are marked by unforeseen twists and turns, and move, ove...

Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies. This collection of essays, dedicated to her work, examines gender as a construct of language, a mode of embodiment, and a critical framework for thinking about the past. Its eleven contributors approach the figure of the gendered body in medieval English writing along several axes: poetic, philosophical, mate...

Death on the Vine, the 10th book in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, opens as five college-age men from well-to-do suburban Atlanta families attend a demonstration in Fort Lauderdale in June 2020. But as night falls, the formerly peaceful push for equal rights morphs into a riot and, during the melee, one of the young men produces a gun and shoots a plain clothed police officer, who dies in the street. Carina Quintana, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, witnesses t...

The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water – governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. The authors present a systematic analysis of case study river systems drawn from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, UK and USA to provide an integrated global assessment of the scale and key features of catchment management.A key premise explored is that despite...

KIRKUS REVIEW--Benson's tightly plotted crime thriller is sure to please fans of police procedurals--a Kirkus Star novel.Wealthy middle-aged Manhattanites—the baby boomers of the title—have been gruesomely murdered, and Det.Carina Quintana senses a connection. But how can she prove it? The killer, if he exists, varies his methods and targetsand leaves no tangible evidence. Age and wealth are all that the victims have in common. Recently transferred fromMiami aft...

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry.Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of Christian pilgrimage owing to the fame of its early martyrs, whose relics sanctified the city and whose help was sought by pilgrims to their shrines. C. David Benson ana...

The unsolved murder of a reclusive Brooklyn woman whose badly beaten body was discovered in a windswept corner of Prospect Park…. A killer whose unique affliction calls up a blinding, crimson rage impossible to control….Enter a Manhattan surgeon named Damon Fox, who walked away from medicine in his prime for the very different life of private detecting in South Florida, leaving a hospital's worth of baffled former colleagues in his wake. One of them is the dead woman's sister, who ...

LO, HAPPINESS IS ABIDINGFOR THOSE WHO APPRECIATETHE BASIC LAWS OF ITS ATTAINMENTUnveil the secretsof the venerable City of Zion in the style and tone of the already classic work, The Richest Man in Babylon. Business leaders, community servants, self-improvement fans, and spiritual devotees will all thrill at the steadfast ethics and practical fiscal insights leadi...