Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and desperate, Helen boards a train heading west. She meets Patrice, a happy young expectant mother who’s traveling with her husband, Hugh, to meet his family for the first time. Patrice lets Helen try on her wedding-band—just before the train crashes, killing Patrice and Hugh. Thinking Helen is their widowed daughter-in-law, Hugh’s family welcomes her into their rich and loving home. For the first time, Helen’s life is good—until her ex-lover comes to tow...

The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice go hand in hand.Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism, the labour movement, youth climate campaigns, community-engaged scholarship, and independent journalism, the six authors challenge toothless proposals and false solutions to show that a ju...

The world of psychiatry is a difficult field to navigate. In my twenty-plus years dealing with different facilities and clientele, I was educated in the very complex field of this profession. I got a doctorate in the school of hard knocks. The educational aspect of psychology has no correlation with the realms that exist beyond most human perception. Books in this field of study try to explain what most cannot understand, relying entirely on theory and conjecture. This is my testament to w...

Can a counselor heal himself when the weight of anxiety and depression becomes too much to carry?In The Wounded Healer, 53-year-old Christian counselor David Gray takes readers on a raw, deeply personal journey through anxiety, depression, and the slow, painful process of rediscovering hope.With decades of experience helping others navigate addiction, trauma, and mental illn...

David Gray was known for his poetry and fiction, and "Mr. Carteret and Others" likely showcases his talent for storytelling through a series of engaging short stories. Unfortunately, specific details about the individual stories within this collection are not available in my database.However, Gray's works often delved into the human condition, explored interpersonal relationships, and presented thought-provoking narratives. If you're interested in exploring his writings, "Mr. Carteret and ...

Future Food Systems: Exploring Global Production, Processing, Distribution and Consumption provides an overview of food systems, from farming through to logistics, processing, retail, service and consumption, with the intention of enabling more efficient development of policy and implementation of food related practices. The book presents the considerations which must be understood to develop effective and efficient policies and practices for any level of food system and along the continuu...

The Fourth Amendment is facing a crisis. New and emerging surveillance technologies allow government agents to track us wherever we go, to monitor our activities online and offline, and to gather massive amounts of information relating to our financial transactions, communications, and social contacts. In addition, traditional police methods like stop-and-frisk have grown out of control, subjecting hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens to routine searches and seizures. In this work, D...

Welcome to a world where being a superhero is just another job. A world where the rich can afford comprehensive hero protection policies that ensure that the best heroes will come to their aid in an emergency. The poor, however, have to make-do with protection from government sponsored agencies with limited resources whose staff are…shall we say…a little less heroic. We’ve tracked the lives of the heroes that make up one of these government sponsored agencies, Heroes 4 Zeroes, through thre...

A man is first accused, and then convicted, of murdering his wife. As his execution date approaches, his friends and a sympathetic detective frantically search for his alibi, a woman with whom he’d gone to a Broadway show the night of the murder. None of the people who saw them together recall the woman....

A film star with a predilection for gambling incognito south of the border gives her Private-Eye bodyguard more than a handful of trouble when she takes an unscheduled trip to a Mexican Casino.

Surveillance presents a conundrum: how to ensure safety, stability, and efficiency while respecting privacy and individual liberty. From police officers to corporations to intelligence agencies, surveillance law is tasked with striking this difficult and delicate balance. That challenge is compounded by ever-changing technologies and evolving social norms. Following the revelations of Edward Snowden and a host of private-sector controversies, there is intense interest among policymakers, b...

David Gray Carlson and Peter Goodrich argue that the postmodern legal mind can be characterized as having shifted the focus of legal analysis away from the modernist understanding of law as a system that is unitary and separate from other aspects of culture and society. In exploring the various "other dimensions" of law, scholars have developed alternative species of legal analysis and recognized the existence of different forms of law. Carlson and Goodrich assert that the postmodern legal...