Marcos Kedalion knows amazing things, reports what he experienced and learned as a friend of Poserich, reports on the influence of unknown powers on human destinies, on the limits of human will, on the transformation of the earth, a mysterious people, primeval dramas and tragedies, secrets in the wilderness of Siberia, bloody wars, but also of love and happiness, and an offer to live among the stars for an unlimited time. And he shows how everything, to this day, is always repeated, albeit...

40 Must-Read Spy Novels surveys the formative terrain of espionage fiction, tracing how secrecy, surveillance, coded loyalties, imperial rivalry, and political intrigue became engines of popular narrative. Spanning adventure romance, detective fiction, invasion scare, international thriller, and psychological suspense, the volume reveals a genre still testing the boundaries between patriotic duty and private conscience. Its standout tales of hidden identities, conspiratorial networks, and ...

Behind Enemy Lines: 40 Spy Thrillers surveys the formative decades of espionage fiction, assembling tales of covert passage, coded intelligence, political intrigue, imperial rivalry, and perilous disguise. Its range extends from brisk adventure narratives and detective-inflected puzzles to psychological suspense, melodrama, and romance shadowed by international conflict. Stories of infiltrators, compromised loyalties, secret documents, and hostile frontiers reveal how the spy thriller tran...

Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based approaches to corporate responsibility, providing theoretical support for business involvem...

MURDER MYSTERY COLLECTION - 40+ Thriller Novels & Detective Stories gathers Melville Davisson Post's distinctive contributions to early twentieth-century crime fiction, ranging from intricate legal puzzles to morally charged tales of detection. Best known for the Uncle Abner stories, Post writes with a grave, almost biblical cadence, combining frontier atmosphere, courtroom logic, and metaphysical inquiry. His mysteries stand at a fascinating crossroads between the classical detective tale...

This expansive collection gathers more than forty of Melville Davisson Post's mysteries, detective tales, and adventure narratives, showcasing a writer who helped refine the early twentieth-century American detective story. Best known for the Uncle Abner stories, Post combines legal ingenuity, moral gravity, frontier atmosphere, and tightly constructed puzzles. His prose is formal yet vigorous, rooted in the traditions of Poe and Doyle while distinctively shaped by American regional experi...

Despite the longstanding debate surrounding the relationship between faith and good works in the apostle Paul's writings, no one to date has undertaken a thorough examination of Paul's use of “good” terminology in ethical contexts. This study seeks to fill this gap by examining Paul’s use of ?γαθ?ς and καλ?ς as these terms appear in his undisputed epistles and in 2 Thessalonians. Surveying a wide terrain of exegetical territory, T. Luke Post makes a compelling case that believers “doing go...

An American trading ship embarks upon a daunting mission: to infiltrate the Hermit Kingdom of Corea, the last of the great Asian empires to open to the west, and set up trade relations with the Choson Dynasty. Corea's Grand Archduke, Prince Gung, has set his face against foreign intrusion and declared that any invading foreigners shall be put to death. What will Reverend Jabez Fuller, his friends O'Reilly and Fields, the brave Captain Pierce, and the eager merchant Morton find as they stea...

Darren Hopkins, a young, naïve international businessman without government experiences is hired as a research analyst with the President’s National Security Committee and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a highly divisive struggle. He learns that so-called super patriots are acquiring weaponry from the Mid-East and that the CIA is trying to track the shipments. But the CIA fails and the potential volatility of a link between America’s domestic terrorists and international terrorists se...

"Our world is very different from the world our founders sought to address, in ways our forebears in the 1950s could have hardly imagined. Yet we remain what we have always been at our best, a people bearing witness to a grand moral vision rooted in the Bible and the person of the crucified and risen Christ, and a people of spiritual audacity prepared to risk old assumptions for the sake of new possibilities." - John H. Thomas, former General Minister, and President, United Church of Chris...

Bringing together Dwellers in the Hills, The Gilded Chair, and The Mountain School-Teacher, this volume displays Melville Davisson Post's gift for transforming rural American settings into arenas of moral conflict, suspense, and social observation. His prose is firm, lucid, and dramatic, shaped by the traditions of late nineteenth-century regionalism, yet animated by the plotting instincts of romance, crime fiction, and legal mystery. Across these works, mountain communities, ambition, edu...

The Sleuth of St. James's Square gathers Melville Davisson Post's Sir Henry Marquis stories, polished examples of early twentieth-century detective fiction in which aristocratic poise meets rigorous analytic method. Set amid drawing rooms, diplomatic circles, and transatlantic intrigues, the tales combine the elegance of Edwardian society with the dark mechanics of murder, fraud, and concealed motive. Post's prose is formal, lucid, and atmospheric, placing the collection in the lineage of ...