New Book Release: Haunted

Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms by Brad Steiger

Bringing forth the spirits, touching on near-death experiences and parallel universes, and presenting the full range of ghostly manifestations, Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms pulls back the curtains on the hidden and frightening world of supernatural spirits, malevolent phantoms, menacing beings, paranormal encounters, spectral apparitions, threatening poltergeists, and sinister hauntings.

Plunked into the middle of the action, master storyteller, Brad Steiger shares true accounts of ghostly encounters in the ancient world; horrors and hauntings in the forests and fields; possessed houses and homes; night terrors, poltergeists, and malevolent spirits; speaking to spirits; near-death experiences and out-of-body visits; visitations from dead loved ones; and much, much more. Nearly 300 hair-raising tales found everywhere, including...

• The devil rider of Chisholm Hollow

• The ghosts of Sandy’s Restaurant, Ventura, CA

• The exorcism of Joan Crawford’s former house

• A ghostly encounter at Beverly Hill’s Greystone Mansion

• How to identify a poltergeist

• Shamanic spirit guides 

• The medium Daniel Dunglas’s Home and his clients Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mark Twain, Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie, Tolstoy, and other notables

• The Bell Witch legend

• The Jersey Devil that haunts the Pine Barrens

Building on his decades of research into the paranormal, mystical, and supernatural, Brad Steiger brings the history, theories, and influences of these mysterious visitors to life. Tracing the perplexing and lasting effects of these ghostly beings, he looks at the scars left and the fallout on the people who’ve lived through a host of alarming, horrifying—and horrifyingly real—encounters.

New Book Release: Disaster Survival Guide

The Disaster Survival Guide: How to Prepare For and Survive Floods, Fires, Earthquakes and More by Marie Jones

Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Floods. Wildfires. Earthquakes. Epidemics. Droughts. Landslides. Trillions of dollars in damages. Billions of people affected. Terrorist attacks. Gas explosions. Bridge collapses. Car, train, and plane crashes. These sudden and unexpected events make it feel as if chaos rules the world, but expecting the unexpected can mitigate the damage and loss to you and your loved ones. It pays to be prepared. When catastrophe strikes, no matter how big or small, being ready and knowing how to respond can be the difference between the loss of life and survival. 

The Disaster Survival Guide: How to Prepare For and Surviving Floods, Fires, Earthquakes and More shows how to prepare and respond to any crisis, man-made or natural, wherever it might occur and however small or large it might be. Using what has been learned from previous disasters, this indispensable book illustrates how others survived past crises. Just as important as learning how to survive the worst is learning how to survive everyday emergencies ranging from bee stings, snakebites, and allergic reactions to house fires, gas explosions, and more. It’s all important, and it’s all in this comprehensive guide.

Covering the basics needs from food, water and first aid to shelter, security, and self-defense, this informative guide walks readers through the steps it takes to create their own personal emergency action plan. It provides a catalog of the skills, tools, and items needed to endure and overcome a variety of situations and circumstances. It pinpoints hazards unique to different terrains, locations, situations, and settings, too, and it helps identify and understand possible threats. 

Furthermore, the guide provides insights into how to react and respond when disaster does strike. Critical decisions faced during an emergency are considered: whether to stay or to go, where to go, how to stay informed, and more. Truly essential, this comprehensive guide takes a clear-eyed look at what to do should the worst happen.

New Book Release: Handy Forensic Science

The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court by Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas Svarney

Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies. It looks at the science of law enforcement, how evidence is gathered, processed, analyzed, and viewed in the courtroom, and more. From the cause, manner, time of a death, and autopsies to blood, toxicology, DNA typing, fingerprints, ballistics, tool marks, tread impressions, and trace evidence, it takes the reader through the many sides of a death investigation. Arson, accidents, computer crimes, criminal profiling, and much, much more are also addressed. 

The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book gives real-world examples and looks at what Hollywood gets right and wrong. It provides the history of the science, and it introduces the scientists behind breakthroughs. An easy-to-use and informative reference, it brings the complexity of a criminal investigation into focus and provides well-researched answers to over 950 common questions, such as…

• What is the difference between cause of death and manner of death?
• How did a person’s skull fit into criminal evidence in the early 1800s?
• When were fingerprints first used to identify a criminal?
• How is the approximate time of death of a crime scene victim determined?
• What is forensic serology?
• What is the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System?
• Can a forensics expert look at skeletal remains and tell whether the person was obese?
• How can a simple knot analyzed in the crime lab be used as evidence?
• Can fingerprints be permanently changed or destroyed?
• How fast does a bullet travel?
• How was a chemical analysis of ink important in the conviction of Martha Stewart?
• What types of data are often retrieved from a crime scene cellphone?
• Can analyses similar to those used in forensics be used to uncover doping in athletics?
• What is the Personality Assessment Inventory?
• What are some motives that cause an arsonist to start a fire?
• What state no longer allows bite marks as admissible evidence in a trial?
• What is the Innocence Project?
• Why are eyewitness accounts not always reliable? 
• Who was “Jack the Ripper”?

Providing the facts, stats, history, and science, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book answers intriguing questions about criminal investigations. This informative book also includes a helpful bibliography, glossary of terms, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.

New Book Release: Shulchan Aruch English Vol. 6: Hilchot Shabbat

Shulchan Aruch English Vol. 6: Hilchot Shabbat, Part 3 by R. Eliyahu Touger, ed.

The laws regarding Shabbos: the 4 domains, prohibited transfers, making eruvin, and issur techumim.