Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule. This book explores this shift through in-depth reviews and commentaries on 100 important films, as well as briefer discussions of about 75 additional Christian-themed films.Peter E. Dans e...

This book is an original and focused academic examination of revivalism in architecture. It looks at how the past has and continues to shape our built environment and visual culture.With contributions by leading scholars and emerging names across the disciplines of architecture, architectural history, history, and design, Revivalism and Architecture explains and challenges our understanding of the past’s impact—at times overt and at others nuanced and covert—upon later gen...

Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a large system does us wrong, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession, examines the efforts of doctors in non-medical fields. The doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of cho...

It's Time to Play the Long Game in Healing Family RelationshipsFamilies were never meant to be divided. Yet in today’s culture, differences in beliefs, values, politics, faith, and life choices can create painful distance between parents and their adult children. Conversations become arguments. Silence replaces connection. Relationships that once felt secure begin to fracture.In Parents vs. Adult Children, Dan Seaborn,Dr. Peter Newhouse, and member...

The role of the Chief Marketing Officer has never been more complex—or more critical. As the marketing profession rapidly evolves, today’s CMOs and tomorrow’s marketing leaders are expected to balance visionary strategy with precise operational execution.The Next CMO: A Guide to Operational Marketing Excellence delivers a practical framework to help you meet that challenge head-on. Drawing on decades of experience leading marketing teams at startups and mu...

A fascinating look at what might have happened had historical assassination attempts succeeded.If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war than the obdurate Führer? Equally intriguing is the possible failed assassination attempt on General de Gaulle on British soil. Who, one wonders, was behind that scheme, and how would Anglo-French...

When a detective second-guesses his gut, he'll have to get creative to catch the killer.Luca worries cancer and divorce have dulled his razor-sharp instincts. So the detective is relieved when his next murder case seems like a no-brainer.When the wealthy victim is found dead in her private-island home, the gold-digging husband seems like the obvious killer.As Luca digs deeper and follows the clues, however, he uncovers a whole new line-up of possible suspects. No lo...

An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club."Poets I know sometimes joke that the poetry club at Oak Park River Forest High School is the best MFA program in the Chicagoland area. Like all great jokes, this one is dead serious." -Eve L. Ewing, award-winning poet, playwright, scholar, and sociologistFor Chicago's Oak Park and R...

Winner of 2021 Voice Arts Award, Audiobook Narration–Science Fiction, narrated by award-winning actor Dan Stevens ( Beauty and the Beast, FX's Legion) Ever Winter is a vivid and eloquent story of loss, rehabilitation, and revenge set in a post-apocalyptic ice world.Far from the savage remnants of humanity, Henry and his family have managed to survive the grip of desolate, perpetual winter on a vast tundra that was once an ocean teeming wi...

This unique book presents original research from the largest cross-national survey of the epidemiology of mental disorders ever conducted. It provides the latest findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys based on interviews of nearly 150,000 individuals in twenty-six countries on six continents. The book is ordered by specific disorder, with individual chapters dedicated to presenting detailed findings on the prevalence, onset timing, sociodemographic profile, comorbidity, associat...

Celebrated weird writer Peter Rawlik returns to his highly entertaining world of Lovecraft-inspired, silver screen-infused fiction with a standalone follow-up to his 2016 novel, Reanimatrix.ARKHAM, 1928Halsey, Peaslee, & Lydecker,Consulting DetectivesArkham's newest detective agency doesn't handle philandering spouses, missing relatives, kidnappings or even murders. Even so, they aren't looking for work-if ...