The Occult History of Angels is a serious non-fiction exploration of the mysterious place angels have occupied within religion, mysticism, ceremonial magic, esoteric philosophy, and hidden spiritual traditions throughout history.For centuries, angels have been described as messengers of God, guardians of the soul, warriors of heaven, guides between worlds, and terrifying intelligences whose true nature may be far stranger than the gentle figures often imagined in popular culture. T...

How tech companies like Google, Airbnb, StubHub, and Facebook learn from experiments in our data-driven world—an excellent primer on experimental and behavioral economicsHave you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of different online experiences. Once an esote...

Parody and Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberalism provides comic relief in a neoliberal era and argues that parody can be used to creatively benefit our practices of self-narration and quests for knowledge. This seriously playful book demonstrates how parody utilizes humor, play, and self-reflection to allow for a helpful alternative relationship to mistakes and our multifaceted self. The book works to delineate specific ways of viewing, studying, creating, and performing a particul...

A Lost Child is a story of a little child who is lost in a world. This child encountered a lot of obstacles in life, until one day these obstacles made him a better person. This book is made to let the people know that its not too late to change or become a better person.

The history of the Great British regiment's World War I service that inspired an award-winning play.R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey's End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his frontline service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of the conflict. Yet the story of his battalion has never been ...

This updated edition of Michael W. Lucas' definitive volume on FreeBSD-based systems adds coverage of modern disks, the ZFS filesystem IPv6, redesigned jail and packaging systems, and virtualization, among dozens of new features added in the last 10 years.FreeBSD is the muscle behind companies like Netflix and EMC. Any place where someone does heavy lifting on the Internet, you'll find FreeBSD. This newly revised edition of Absolute FreeBSD brings FreeBSD'...

How organizations―including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook―learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments―also known as randomized controlled trials―designed to test the impact of different online experiences. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled ...

“One of the best technical writers in the networking and security environments.”— Midwest Book ReviewStop waiting for the network team!If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it.Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the ...

Presbyterianism is good for you! This short introduction shows the value of Presbyterianism to your spiritual well-being as a layperson in the church. An extensive Q&A section answers practical questions.

A hundred-foot barren rock in the middle of the ocean.A plane wreck.One survivor.One dead man.But the dead man keeps moving. Stop moving? He’ll eat you. Sleep too long? He’ll eat you.The only thing tougher than living with a zombie? Surviving without one.(From the collection Vicious Redemption)

This is the first summary of how archaeology has contributed to our understanding of the War of 1812. The contributors of original papers discuss recent excavations and field surveys that present an archaeological perspective that enriches,—and often conflicts with, received historical narratives. The studies cover fortifications, encampments, landscapes, shipwrecks, and battles in the midwestern, southern, mid-atlantic, and northeastern regions of the United States and in Canada. In addit...

One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience. To what extent, and in what ways, is a child's cognitive development influenced by their early experience of, and access to, language? Likewise, what are the effects on development of impaired access to language? This book is the first to confront directly the issue of how possessing an enhanced or impaired access to language influences children'...