If you get your health coverage through work and you are stuck with medical bills that should have already been paid, this book is for you.When the plan underpays or denies a claim, the doctor or hospital still wants to be paid. They send the invoice straight to you. That bill becomes real money out of your pocket. It can lead to collection calls, pressure on your household budget, and unnecessary stress. Most people never get told the simple truth. The employer is responsible for t...

Buried in the CIA's public archive sits one of the strangest documents the U.S. government ever released: a 1983 report on leaving your body, traveling beyond time, and reading a "universal hologram." The Monroe Institute Files traces the true story behind it—from Robert Monroe, a radio executive haunted by out-of-body experiences, to the Hemi-Sync sound technology, the Cold War psychic-spy program at Fort Meade, and the mystery of the missing page 25. Separating documented fact f...

Colour is one of the most meaningful and expressive elements that can be used in the design of buildings. It is also the most neglected: students are rarely taught about it, and many architects are fearful of it.Chromatic Architecture explores the beauty of colour. How it is crafted into the fabric of buildings, opening our eyes to the sensuous and delightful world that exists when it is embraced in the making of space.By featuring intriguing and rich examples of architectu...

Milan, 1353.The Inquisition rules with iron and fire. The dungeons beneath the Castello di Porta Giovia are a world of torments—a labyrinth of stone and shadow where the condemned are broken on the rack, stretched on the strappado, and burned at the pyre.Simon is the Master of the Machinery. A clinical sociopath, he views the instruments of torture not with sadism, but with the cold, methodical eye of an engineer. Human agony leaves him untouched. He feels no guilt, no fear...

Rome, 932 AD. The Vicar of Christ does not belong to God—he belongs to the House of Theophylact.Marozia, the formidable matriarch of Rome's most powerful dynasty, rules the city from behind the velvet curtains of the Lateran Palace. She installs popes and discards them at her whim, treating the Holy See as a political possession, forging papal decrees to enrich her family, and silencing all who dare to oppose her.In the shadow of her empire, Brother Julian toils as a lowly ...

Pastor Konrad Fromm is thirty-four years old, has been in office for four years, and is exceptionally good at his job. He sits with the dying who would otherwise die alone. He conducts funerals after which the bereaved hold his hand for just a little too long. In an Eifel village with eight hundred and twenty inhabitants, they were fortunate to have him.One afternoon in April, he reads a poorly printed circular. A missionary organization is looking for staff for a social center in Pattaya....

Knowledge is power. Heresy is treason. Desire is a death sentence.Paris, 1115. Peter Abelard is the undisputed Titan of the Notre-Dame cloister schools—a brilliant, arrogant philosopher whose radical mastery of logic has earned him idolization from students across Europe and lethal enmity from the conservative Church hierarchy. He believes no mind can match his own, until he enters the house of Canon Fulbert to tutor the uncle's prodigiously gifted niece, Héloïse.She is no ...

Nathaniel Branden's book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already hailed in its hardcover edition as a classic and the most significant work on the topic. Immense in scope and vision and filled with insight into human motivation and behavior, The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem is essential reading for anyone with a personal or professional interest in self-esteem. The book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, p...

In 1888, twelve football clubs stepped forward to form the world's first professional Football League. Among them was Accrington FC—the pride of a soot-choked Lancashire town. But while giant city syndicates built empires, Accrington fought for every shilling.William Cooper arrives in Accrington with a leather satchel and a cold heart. A ruthless auditor sent by the Manchester bank, his mission is simple: assess the club's mounting debts and recommend liquidation. He views the club...

Montauk: The Secret Experiments investigates one of America's most enduring conspiracy legends: the claim that a Cold War radar base on Long Island hid experiments in mind control, psychic warfare, and time travel. Separating documented history from unsubstantiated myth, the book traces the real Camp Hero, the 1992 book that launched the legend, and its debunked foundation in the Philadelphia Experiment. It weighs claims of psychic chairs and "Montauk Boys" against physics and mem...

Thebes, 1479 BCE.Berenice of Keftiu is a captive in a golden cage—a foreign cartographer accused of poisoning the High Priest of Amun. The evidence is damning. The court hungers for her blood. Her execution is imminent.General Peribsen, the Pharaoh's deadliest executioner, is the only man who believes in her innocence. He claims her as his prisoner, vowing to uncover the truth himself. But what begins as a cold interrogation becomes a consuming obsession—a passion that thre...

Texas, 1878. Amos Marshall rides into Oakhaven tracking a stolen horse—and finds himself caught between a ruthless railroad baron and the two women who refuse to let their land be taken.Viola Roscoe has spent her life fighting for a ranch that's slowly slipping through her fingers. Her mother, Eleanor, has buried three husbands and outlived every man who ever tried to break her. Together, they've held the line against Harlan Blackwood's encroaching empire—until the day a stranger w...