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THE ASHES OF THE GODS Alphonsus Q Mann III, leader of a New Age sect flees to Ireland, from the authorities in the United States, who seek him for currency and tax violations. He buys a mansion - Martin's Castle Hotel - on the Burren in the west of Ireland, operating under the guise of running...

Australia's constitutional crisis of 1975 was not simply about the precise powers of the Senate or the Governor-General. It was about competing accounts of how to legitimate informal constitutional change. For Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the parliamentary tradition that he invoked, national...

This brief theory article reveals a correlation between the particular auditory hallucinations experienced by Western sufferers of psychosis (generally negative as they are), and the consequences of associatively particular millennia-enduring cultural programming of religious idolatry and moral persecution...

Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and data on how people act and react, O’Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making.

From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism...

An October to Remember 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It recalls one of baseball's most celebrated championship series from the voices of the players who still remain--a collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they reflect fifty years...

When a New York crime boss sends a hitman to St. Pete in the middle of a zombie infestation, the hitman finds that even infested with the undead, his beloved St. Pete hasn't really changed that much. Yet even in the middle of an infestation, he still has a job to do. A seriocomic short story...

"Elvis meets Elmore Leonard on the way to Red Sox Spring Training." - Adam Pachter, Editor of Fenway Fiction. In Major League cities across the country, the departure of the equipment truck from the ballpark headed for spring training has become an annual rite of spring. Nowhere is this more...

Success in the formal scientific investigation of phenomena has always required that man learn to speak formally about the phenomena under investigation. Psychic phenomena are considered in terms of the unresolved problem of the relation between mind and matter, with paraphysics being defined as the...

Of all the writings of Paul none have made so signal a contribution to Christian life and identity as the Letter to the Galatians and the Letter to the Romans. While written at quite separate stages of his apostolic career and very different in tone, the two letters unite in projecting above all a...

This commentary adopts a literary-rhetorical approach, viewing the letter as an instrument of persuasion designed to transform readers through a celebratory presentation of the Gospel. Reflecting upon the fate of Jews and Gentiles, Paul wins his audience to a vision of a God who always acts inclusively....

It's October of 1970 and twelve-year-old altar boy Conner O'Neil has a few problems. He's dodging some oddly personal questions from his local parish priest while also suppressing the guilt he feels from the night he and his buddies shot out the window of a local haunted house. Worst of all, he learns...

Angleterre, Régence. Pour assurer une vie décente à sa famille, Sarah Marchant n’a pas hésité à sacrifier son honneur et ses rêves de jeune fille : elle est devenue la maîtresse d’un riche gentleman. Mais à la disparition de son protecteur, quelle n’est pas son émotion de découvrir...

This book contains a thorough and balanced series of dialogues introducing key topics in philosophy of religion, such as: the existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, the nature of religious experience, immortality, and the meaning of life. A realistic cast of characters...