From the moment he was a bewildered five-year-old, David Colman's life has been haunted by the unexplained. Psychic dreams, heightened intuition, ghostly visitations, episodes of missing time, and close encounters with forces beyond our understanding have followed him for decades.Then came the night that changed everything.Driving through Raven Craig Wood with his wife and two young children, Colman and his family came face-to-face with the being now known as the Silver Man...

Race against Liberalism examines how black worker activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. David M. Lewis-Colman traces the substantive, long-standing disagreements between liberals and the black workers who embraced autonomous race-based action. As he shows, black autoworkers placed themselves at the center of Detroit's working-class politics and sought to forge a kind of working class unity that accommodated their interest...

Although there is a strong and growing literature in the two areas of desistance and addiction recovery, they have developed along parallel pathways with little systematic assessment of the empirical evidence about the co-occurrence of the relationship or how one area can learn from the other. This book aims to fill that gap by bringing together emerging literature on the relationship between offending and substance use.Instead of focusing on the active period of its onset and pers...

A funny, exciting, David vs Goliath adventure with a heart-warming father-son relationship – perfect for fans of Danny the Champion of the World, Millions, and Ratatouille.The story of one boy and his brilliant burgers!Benny Burns spends every weekend helping his dad by working at their burger van, parked outside the local football ground. And when Benny finds his grandfather’s old recipe book and begins following its instructions, he starts cooki...

The play retains much of the enchanted, magical atmosphere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, particularly the interactions between the fairy world and the human characters. The central story revolves around the love entanglements of four Athenian lovers—Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena—who, under the influence of magic, find themselves in comical situations. The fairy king Oberon and queen Titania are also featured, and their own magical rivalry contributes to the chaos in the lovers’ l...

Nature didn’t finish your child’s brain at birth. It’s up to you to maximize your child’s mental skills without causing additional stress. Acclaimed neurologist and bestselling author of Grain Brain, David Perlmutter, MD, offers these valuable tools:Simple games to reinforce memory pathways in the brainInformation on common household products and children’s toys that contain brain-damaging neurotoxinsThe right foods and supplements to boost...

Implementing, Administering, and Consulting on Commercial IP Telephony SolutionsKey FeaturesWritten by four Asterisk Professionals, this book brings their years of experience together in an easy-to-understand guide to working with Asterisk in small, medium and larger Commercial environmentsPacked with hints, tips, and best practice ñ learn to avoid the pitfalls that can hinder an Asterisk implementationFocused chapters provide thorough, compreh...

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and New York Times bestseller *Brain Maker*...Loss of memory is not a natural part of aging—and this book explains why.**Celebrated neurologist David Perlmutter reveals how everyday memory-loss—misplacing car keys, forgetting a name, losing concentration in meetings—is actually a warning sign of a distressed brain. Here he and Carol Colman offer a simple plan for repa...

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and New York Times bestseller Brain Maker . . .Loss of memory is not a natural part of aging—and this book explains why.Celebrated neurologist David Perlmutter reveals how everyday memory-loss—misplacing car keys, forgetting a name, losing concentration in meetings—is actually a warning sign of a distressed brain. Here he and Carol Colman offer a simple plan ...

All five series of the award-winning sketch show - plus standalone comedy Daydream Believers'Fresh and full of invention' The TelegraphWelcome to the inside-out world of Mitchell and Webb, a strange and surreal place populated by misfits, eccentrics, talking animals and a few stray Radio 4 arts programme presenters.Included here are all five series of their fantastically skewed comedy show, packed with offbeat sket...

The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman and David Garrick is a celebrated eighteenth-century comedy of manners that explores love, secrecy, social ambition, and the tension between personal desire and family expectation. First performed in 1766, the play is renowned for its witty dialogue, engaging characters, and sharp commentary on marriage and social hierarchy. The story centers on a young woman who enters into a secret union with the man she loves, without the approval of her family....

A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) is an intriguing collection that invites readers into a kaleidoscope of narrative magic and dramaturgical innovation, where Shakespeare's timeless tales are transformed and reimagined through a late 18th-century lens. Balancing between the classical elegance of Shakespearean drama and the imaginative reinterpretations by editors and adaptors of the time, this anthology offers a rich exploration of themes such as love, power, and metamo...