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...

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...

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 ...

The Folklore of Alaska is a journey into one of the most powerful story landscapes in North America, where mountains, sea ice, forests, rivers, and lonely coastlines have shaped generations of belief, warning, memory, and survival. In this atmospheric nonfiction work, Michael Lucas explores the deep folklore of Alaska through Raven tales, Native traditions, coastal legends, Arctic beliefs, wilderness warnings, ghost stories, and the strange modern mysteries that continue to cling to the fa...

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.

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 ...

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...

Jonathan Edwards was a preacher, pastor, revivalist, and theologian. This volume unpacks his magnificent theological vision, which starts with God’s glory and ends with all creation returning to that glory.Sean Michael Lucas has converted his years of teaching on Edwards into this valuable work, which places Edwards’s vision in an accessible, two-part framework. Part one focuses on Edwards’s understanding of redemption history—God’s cosmic, grand work from eternity past to eternity...

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.

There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all.The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems.But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything.

Physics inconvenient?Change it. Then watch it try to kill you.Solve a murder in a universe without ground to stand on. Investigate inexplicable deaths a few million years after the Big Bang. Take too many breaths and never go home again. Let the antimatter trickle between your fingers, and visit five alien universes in this first Montague Portal omnibus.Contains:Forever FallsHydrogen SleetsDrinking ...

A FAMILY AFFRAYWith her father’s death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most—her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he’s gone.She finds only lies.Determined to rip the truth out of the shadows, Beaks ricochets around the world, defying killers and government agents alike. With the man she loves and the secretive hacker Sister Silence, she targets a nightmare that turns suffering into profit and slaughter i...