Michael West

When vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus witnesses a gruesome shark attack, he discovers it wasn't a random attack of animal savagery but linked to a top-secret discovery of archaeological ruins on the ocean floor.

Poseidon's Children

The Wide Game

It is said that old man Fuller conducted unspeakable acts, blood rituals and human sacrifices, all in an attempt to gain the ultimate knowledge, the ultimate power. And then, he was killed, horribly murdered on his own lands, leaving the house to stand as a vacant monument to his wickedness. But once a door is opened, it can never really be closed.--back cover

Spook House

A team of parapsychologists investigate an abandoned movie theater in a small Indiana town where one of the area's most gruesome murders took place.

Cinema of Shadows

D.K. Swan

The Greek Heroes (Nmsr Stage 2)

Verhalen over de 13e eeuwse volksheld die van de rijken stal om aan de armen te geven. Gewenste woordenschat ±500 woorden.

Robin Hood

Jonathan Maberry

Kevin J. Anderson

Tim Lebbon

Tom Piccirilli

Seanan McGuire

Paul Tremblay

Tim Waggoner

Lucien Soulban

Lucy A. Snyder

Nisi Shawl

Damien Angelica Walters

Nick Mamatas

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Brandon Massey

Anton Strout

Gary Kloster

Douglas F. Warrick

Gerard Brennan

A.C. Wise

Daniel Robichaud

Laurie Tom

Jason Sizemore

From the editors of Dark Faith, Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, comes a collection of supernatural crime noir. You think you're safe. What a joke. You don't think about the places you pass every day. The side streets. The alleys. The underbridges. All you'd have to do is take a step to the side. Then you'd know. The streets are filled with shadows.

Streets of Shadows

Terrifying creatures exist all around us, hiding in plain sight. Ancient. Deadly. They gather in secret, conspiring, dreaming of nothing less than humanity's destruction, and their numbers are growing. Earl Preston knows the danger all too well. After tangling with a horde of mythological sea monsters in Colonial Bay, he has been tasked with finding these beasts and exposing their plans whatever they may be. But Earl is not the only one with a mystery on their hands. At the very top of the world, Carol Miyagi has stumbled onto an artifact from Earth's past, something magnificent held captive in a prison of ice and snow. Now, Carol and Earl must work quickly to decipher the will of the gods-a plot that defies imagination-and to stop their followers from carrying it out. They thought the nightmare was over, but they are about to discover that the horror has only just begun. Hades' Disciples is Book Two of the Legacy of the Gods Series!

Hades' Disciples

Zeus' warriors, the defenders of humanity, have suffered terrible losses. Presumed dead, Earl Preston has been forced to retreat into a forgotten underworld beneath New York City, but he is still far from safe. Hades' disciples need only to recover the two remaining crystal skulls -- ancient vessels of indescribable power -- and their dark quest to return the vanquished gods to earth will be all but complete. To save civilization as we know it, Earl must rise to confront his greatest challenge yet, but this is a fight he cannot win alone. Trapped inside an alien environment, Alan Everson and Kari Hannigan must put aside their differences and work together to help a gravely injured Carol Miyagi -- a woman they both claim to love. Theirs is a journey to discover the secret of life itself. And they may not like what they find. Zeus' Warriors is the third book in the Legacy of the Gods series.

Zeus' Warriors

Skull Full of Kisses

"Hot Coffee on the Mississippi" takes place during the great depression of the 1930's near a town named Hot Coffee. The father, Jim York, loses his job and is forced to make their small farm support his family, and they all work together to survive. The York family has hard times and good times during those depression years. You will meet a cantankerous rooster named Bodacious, a dog named Little John that was attacked by a bear; also a mule named Eb that has a bad attitude from you-know-where. That is just a few of the animals you will get to meet. This book has many laughs and a few tears, but every chapter includes a lesson for the young and for the older reader it will stir memories. I believe this book will delight all who read it. "Hot Coffee on the Mississippi" will leave the reader with a warm feeling. I was inspired by my grandmother, William, to write this book. You will get to meet Willie, which is what everybody called her, and find out how she got a man's name.

Hot Coffee on the Mississippi

The Green Primer

New Method Readers

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay. Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened "romantic irony." Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their zest for oracular wordplay. Their search for a primal language lurking beneath all natural languages provided them with something like a secret language that encodes their meanings. To fathom their essentially comic masterpieces we must decipher it. Interpreting Thoreau as an ironic moralist, satirist, and social critic rather than a nature-loving mystic, Transcendental Wordplay suggests that the major American Romantics shared a surprising conservatism. In this award-winning study, Professor West rescues the pun from critical contempt and allows readers to enjoy it as a serious form of American humor.

America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature

Transcendental Wordplay

Richard Dormer

Ailis Ni Riain

Rosemary Jenkinson

Pat Kinevane

Louise Lowe

Contemporary Irish Plays showcases the new drama that has emerged since 2008. Featuring a blend of established and emerging writers, the anthology shows how Irish writers are embracing new methods of theatre-making to explore exciting new themes – while also finding new ways to come to terms with the legacies of the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger. Freefall is a sharp, humorous and exhilarating look at the fragility of a human life, blending impressionistic beauty, poignancy and comedy. Forgotten features the interconnecting stories of four elderly people living in retirement homes and care facilities around Ireland, who range in age from 80 to 100 years old. Drum Belly is a fascinating play about the Irish mafia in late 1960s' New York. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2012. Previously unpublished, Planet Belfast by Rosemary Jenkinson is about a woman named Alice – Stormont's only Green MLA who must toe a delicate line between large, sectarian power bases in order to promote an environmental agenda in Northern Ireland. Desolate Heaven is a story about two young girls hoping to find freedom from home in the trappings of love. It was first performed at Theatre 503, London, in 2013 Written for the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival, and previously unpublished, The Boys of Foley Street by Louise Lowe is a piece of site-specific theatre which led audience members on a tour of the backstreets of inner-city Dublin. Edited by the leading scholar on Irish theatre, Patrick Lonergan, Contemporary Irish Plays is a timely reminder of the long-held tradition and strength of Irish theatre which blossoms even in its new-found circumstances.

Freefall; Forgotten; Drum Belly; Planet Belfast; Desolate Heaven; The Boys of Foley Street

Contemporary Irish Plays

From the author of Dublin by Lamplight and Foley, Freefall reunites award-winning Irish playwright Michael West with The Corn Exchange: Dublin's innovative theatre company who explore the boundaries and possibilities of theatre with their trademark style of Commedia dell'Arte. Freefall is a sharp, humorous and exhilarating look at the fragility of a human life, blending impressionistic beauty, poignancy and comedy. A sudden shock, and a man's life flashes before his eyes. He experiences an intense rush of extraordinary images and tangled memories, revelations and lost connections. People time and places swirl around him. As he valiantly attempts to stitch it all back together, will his luck hold out? The play's conceit follows a man who has suffered a stroke experiencing a series of flashbacks. Trapped within his own head, the audience are taken with him through a whistlestop tour of his life: a series of vivid, often painful episodes from childhood tragedy to crumbling marriage. In a beguiling portrait of mortality and humanity, Freefall explores memory, family and loss. There are things I haven't said. Things I want to say again. I need to think. I need more time.

Freefall

Robert Lanza

Roger Pedersen

James A. Thomson

E. Donnall Thomas

John Gearhart

Brigid Hogan

Douglas Melton

This abridged version of the bestselling reference Handbook of Stem Cells, Two-Volume Set attempts to incorporate all the essential subject matter of the original two-volume edition in a single volume. The material has been reworked in an accessible format suitable for students and general readers interested in following the latest advances in stem cells, including full color presentation throughout. Although some extra language and chapters have been deleted, rigorous effort has been made to retain from the original two-volume set the material pertinent to the understanding of this exciting area of biology. The organization of the book remains largely unchanged, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem cells; the tools, methods, and experimental protocols needed to study and characterize stem cells and progenitor populations; as well as a presentation by the world's experts of what is currently known about each specific organ system. * Full-color presentation througout * Each chapter begins with 3-5 defined glossary terms, and all of the terms are collected in a comprehensive list within the book * References have been eliminated - now there are about 10 bibliographic entries per chapter

Essentials of Stem Cell Biology

D. K. Swan

The White Birds; The Fisherman and the Giant; The Glass Box; The Prince and his Servants; The Table, the Donkey and the Stick.

Five Famous Fairy Tales

Although there are countless books about process improvement and business performance, there is a dearth of literature on how process improvement yields business performance results. Filling this need, Return On Process (ROP): Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement provides strategic and tactical guidance on how to achieve a posi

Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement

Return On Process (ROP)

Wieby M. Altink

Two factors have focused the attention of policy-makers, researchers and senior managers upon the importance of innovation. First, the increasingly competitive global organizational environment requires that new and improved products, processes and procedures are constantly developed. Secondly, there is widespread recognition that we must use our limited resources in the most efficient and effective way possible.; This special issue focuses on innovation in organizations, in recognition of the primary strategic value of innovation in a rapidly-changing European and global market-place. Psychological perspectives on innovation are particularly important, since innovation ultimately is about human behaviour.; In this book, contributors discuss the factors which contribute to individual innovation at work - people introducing new and improved role objectives, work processes and strategies. They also examine factors influencing team-level innovation, an important area of research in the drive to understand how employees can become involved, committed and empowered within organizations. The contributors examine factors associated with organizational innovation, an area where there is still much prescription but little empirical evidence. Finally, there is an examination of the socio-cultural factors affecting innovation.; All the contributors adopt a psychological perspective, arguing that it is psychological factors which influence people to develop and introduce new and improved products, processes and procedures in their workplaces. The contributors, who are drawn from a number of European countries, exemplify the axiom that heterogeneity is associated with innovation. The contents ofthis book themselves reflect innovative orientations to understanding innovation in organizations. Of particular significance is that this book includes contributions from both researchers and practitioners and reveals both the overlaps in their conceptions of innovation at work as well as the areas of diagreement and discrepancy.

Innovation in Organizations

Tells the story of King Arthur and his knights in a simplified version with controlled vocabulary.

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