Hiroshima. The March on Washington. The fall of the Roman Empire. August is where the world changes -- permanently.August is history's pressure cooker -- where the heat of summer ignites civil rights movements, ends world wars, and topples ancient empires. No month carries more weight per day.Nomical History: August delivers one extraordinary historical event for every day, told with powerful narrative prose and reflections that make you see today's world through history's ...

The one-stop, comprehensive resource for students considering a career in medicineIn recent years, applying to and getting accepted to medical school in the U.S. has become increasingly difficult. In 2020–2021, only 38% of the 53,370 students who applied to U.S. medical schools were accepted. For the most prestigious medical schools, the acceptance rate was just 1.4–2%. Pre-Medicine: The Complete Guide for Aspiring Doctors by Joel Thomas, Phillip Wagner, R...

Clayton Reid, a would-be playwright and sometimes bartender, is downtown St. John’s iconic man-about-town. Near-crippled by booze, drugs and dirty sex, Clayton, amongst the dozens of other burnt-out ghosts of Water Street, stumbles up and down the road of self-destruction, holding out a shallow hope that real life will one day fall from the sky. Then Clayton meets Isadora, a woman who stirs something achingly human in him, sending him on the ultimate bender of his life.Told with th...

Tom and Suzie have learned the basics of BDSM, but seen and experienced much more. Their two visits to The Mill Club, for example, one as observers, the other as participants, were eye-opening and mind-boggling. Now they're about to find out first hand that there's more to this lifestyle than bondage and spanking.(Author's note: Although this is the third book of a trilogy, it can stand on its own without the reader having read the previous books.)

After a few years of married life, Suzie and Tom thought that they had a normal sexual relationship. Yes, it was pretty "vanilla", but wasn't that the norm in our culture? They were shocked when they learned that their best friends were deeply into BDSM, but curiosity led them to delve into the details. This is the story of how they learned about and experienced the world of power exchange.

The Millville Trilogy - Book 2.Only recently introduced to BDSM, Suzie and Tom continue to be educated by their best friends and mentors, Bob and Julie. As they explore further into the world of bondage, pain, and pleasure, they also learn surprising things about their own egos and sexuality. What at first shocked them now has them craving more.

Joel Thomas is a Christian leader, teacher, and counselor to troubled marrieds, singles, and parishioners-at-large with life issues that span from spiritual maladies to domestic upsets to social and moral sicknesses of every kind. He's never authored a book until now. After all the assistance he's offered the world, the day came when he faced putting his courage and outstanding achievements to practice right at home with his ailing mother. Thus, his book subject was born. His book, My Silv...

Industrial Network Security: Securing Critical Infrastructure Networks for Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems covers implementation guidelines for security measures of critical infrastructure. The book describes an approach to ensure the security of industrial networks by taking into account the unique network, protocol, and application characteristics of an industrial control system, along with various compliance controls. It offers guidance on deployment and configur...

As the sophistication of cyber-attacks increases, understanding how to defend critical infrastructure systems—energy production, water, gas, and other vital systems—becomes more important, and heavily mandated. Industrial Network Security, Second Edition arms you with the knowledge you need to understand the vulnerabilities of these distributed supervisory and control systems. The book examines the unique protocols and applications that are the foundation of industrial control systems, and...

Can Christians take seriously the claims of modern science without compromising their theological integrity? Can theology contribute to our understanding of the natural world without reducing the doctrine of creation to a few flashpoint issues? While there is no shortage of works that treat the intersection between science and religion, little attention has been paid to the theological reception of developments of modern science. Yet a deeper look at the history o...

*Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumbled into ruin. In this lost age, fealty and loyalty are as valuable as gold and as deadly as cold iron, and war is ever-presentOathmark: Second Edition* is a revised and expanded version of the popular mass-battle fantasy wargame, Oathmark. Featuring new and expanded rules, units types, and a whole host of other revisions from ye...

The Digital Puritan is a quarterly digest of carefully selected Puritan works which provides a steady diet of sound Puritan teaching. The language has been gently modernised to render it more readable, while still retaining much of the flavour and character of the original text. Hundreds of helpful notes and Scripture references (in the English Standard Version®) are included as end-notes; no internet connection is needed.The following articles appear in this spring/summer...