tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34895608308885281642024-03-28T20:29:35.370-07:00Hurwitz IndexingWhat's new in the world of Hurwitz Indexing, the indexing, copyediting, proofreading, book-reviewing and article-writing business of Shoshana Hurwitz.Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.comBlogger435125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-82769563591410757522024-02-29T05:32:00.000-08:002024-02-29T05:32:19.869-08:00New Book Release: Kingdom Journey<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Kingdom Journey: A Call to Recover the Central Theme of Scripture</i> by Sean P. Finnegan</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">News flash: "The Bible doesn't teach that people go to heaven or hell when they die." Rather, it teaches that God's kingdom will come to this earth in judgment and restoration, making everything wrong with the world right. The doorway into the age to come is not death but the return of Christ when his followers experience resurrection rather than disembodiment. This simple idea is not only the key to understanding the biblical vision of the future, but it also formed the core of Jesus's gospel message, and it provides the motivation to live out your faith today. The goal of this book is nothing short of igniting a revolution in the church's understanding of the kingdom of God. Kingdom Journey marries a biblical exploration to a historical investigation to explain not only what the kingdom of God is, but also how Christianity lost this precious pearl of great price. Thankfully, several movements over the past five centuries have initiated recoveries of the kingdom idea, but many Christians remain in the dark, beset with medieval folk theology. This book will open your eyes to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness with clarity and vigor.</span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-62869694137403851722024-02-29T05:28:00.000-08:002024-02-29T05:28:13.296-08:00New Book Release: Decolonizing Wesleyan Theology<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Decolonizing Wesleyan Theology: Theological Engagements from the Underside of Methodism</i> by Filipe Maia et al., eds.</span></span></h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2c293b; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">What can movements for decolonization teach Wesleyan theology? This book faces this question to show that decolonial voices are reshaping the contours of Methodist and Wesleyan traditions. Contributors to this volume include theologians, pastors, and leaders in the Global South who are leading the people called Methodists to encounter the tradition anew in the radical spirit of decolonization.</span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-48749732755835396252024-02-29T05:14:00.000-08:002024-02-29T05:14:08.344-08:00New Book Release: Toward a Singular Goal<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Toward a Singular Goal: 100 Years of the New York State Land Association</i></h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">A century in existence is no small feat for this organization; it has been a journey of education, advocacy, and commitment to its goals. Researching this book has served as a reminder to us that the title insurance industry consists of many accomplished, committed, and proactive individuals working in unison to positively shape the work we all do.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The future of the New York State Land Title Association is informed by its history. Our leaders recognize that it took the concerted efforts of many devoted members to serve our industry in the past and they will continue to focus on supporting the success of all our members going forward. Together, our group of capable and skilled agents and underwriters have pursued a vision of achievement and executed a new, proactive approach that will help us face the inevitable trials and tribulations we’ll encounter as we embrace what is to come.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Just as the foundation of our work begins in the soil of the communities in which we reside, the foundation of the New York State Land Title Association is our people—those who will safeguard our industry and continue to educate, advocate, and support our best interests.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Cheers to another 100 years!</p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-43857598266280670172024-01-02T01:34:00.000-08:002024-01-02T01:34:30.138-08:00New Book Release: Before Maimonides<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew</i> by Tzvi Langermann</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Brill, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of “Jewish philosophy”. But just what were the contours of philosophical-scientific inquiry that Maimonides replaced? A fairly large array of diverse texts have been studied, but no comprehensive picture has yet emerged. The newly discovered Hebrew dialogue published here has points of contact of various depth with most of the major works of pre-Maimonidean thought. It shares as well influences from without, especially from the Islamic kalam. The dialogue thus presents, in an engaging literary form, a clear and detailed snapshot of pre-Maimonidean philosophy and science.</span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-67217106324717607362024-01-02T01:25:00.000-08:002024-01-02T01:29:05.294-08:00New Book Release: Family, Friends and Neighbors<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>Family, Friends, and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal</i> by Richard Estep</h2><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Delve into the chillingly true world of murder and deceit. Explore the twisted paths of those driven by dark motives of control, money, social status, and revenge, and the unsuspecting victims who placed their trust in them.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Discover the dark secrets that lurk behind closed doors in </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. You will be left questioning just how well you truly know those around you in this gripping true-crime collection. Dive into infamous cases such as Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, the Menendez Brothers, and Lizzie Borden, and also examine lesser-known crimes that will send shivers down your spine. You'll investigate thirty-four shocking tales of mind-boggling acts of violence, such as …</span></div></span></span><p></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The captivating downfall of prestigious attorney and community figure </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Alex Murdaugh</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, whose addiction spiraled into a web of deceit, fraud, and murder.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The heartbreaking story of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Michael</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robert Bever</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, brothers driven to commit unspeakable acts due to a lifetime of torment inflicted by their own parents.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The macabre case of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Heather Mack</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and her boyfriend, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Tommy Schaefer</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, who were entangled in a web of greed and trust funds leading to a gruesome discovery inside a suitcase.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The shocking crimes committed by </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Lyle</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Erik Menendez</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, whose privileged lives culminated in the massacre of their own parents, forever shocking the nation.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The accused Victorian-era serial poisoner, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Mary Ann Cotton</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and the mysterious deaths of her husbands and children.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The troubled Florida teen </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Tyler Hadley</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and his wild house party that went on while his parents' bodies bled in the master bedroom.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The bank vice-president-turned-embezzler </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Steven Sueppel</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, whose mounting debts compelled him to commit a desperate act of murder.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And dozens of other intimate murders and webs of deceit!</div><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Murders committed to escape a marriage, or out of dire desperation, or from an insane separation from reality, these and other less comprehensible motivations fill the pages of </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Family, Friends and Neighbors</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. It’s an unflinching look into humanity’s dark side! Read the stories, investigate the facts, and meet the vicious killers who murder the people who should have been nearest and dearest to them.</span></div></span></span></li></ul>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-35700156543084033522023-12-03T04:57:00.000-08:002023-12-03T04:57:43.725-08:00New Book Release: Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity</i> by Ashley Purpura, et al., eds.</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: times;">What is the role of gender in Eastern Christianity? In this volume, Orthodox experts of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds tackle this complex question. They engage critically with gender issues within their own tradition. Rather than simply accepting pervasive assumptions and practices, the authors challenge readers to reconsider historically or theologically justified views by offering nuanced insights into the tradition. The first part of the book explores normative positions in Orthodox texts and contexts. From examinations of Scripture and hagiography to re-evaluations of monastic, patriarchal, and legal sources, it sheds new light on gender issues in Orthodox Christianity. The second part considers how gendered expectations shape individuals' participation in Orthodox liturgical life and how ecclesial contexts inflect gender theologically. The chapters reflect diverse Orthodox voices brought together to foster new understandings of the ways gender shapes Orthodox religious lives and beliefs. Rethinking what has been inherited from tradition, the authors proffer new perspectives on what it means to be a man or woman within Orthodoxy in the twenty-first century.</span></span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-13544956263408711162023-11-01T02:02:00.005-07:002023-11-01T02:02:28.753-07:00New Book Release: Keir Hardie's Creed<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Keir Hardie's Creed: Faith in Socialism</i> by Neil Johnson</span></h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: times;">For James Keir Hardie, founding father of the British Labour Party, Socialism was the Christianity of his day. Keir Hardie realized that the abject poverty of his early years was economic, social, and political oppression, so he dedicated his life to fighting for justice. He found inspiration in the visions, insights, and concepts of figures from Jesus of Nazareth to Robert Burns and Karl Marx. At the heart of Keir Hardie's creed was the belief that human solidarity is sacred. What underpins this study is the understanding that labour history is religious history.</span></span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-7696344008102368662023-11-01T01:57:00.001-07:002023-11-01T01:57:08.547-07:00New Book Release: Avoiding Harm<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>Avoiding Harm: A Muslim Response to COVID-19</i> by A. Rashied Omar</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Research scholars have lamented the fact that most of the extant studies on religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic focus on a particular religious group, typically Christian. This book fills this lacuna by providing some useful insights into how one Muslim religious institution responded to the pandemic. It portrays the sermons, advice, and guidance provided to the Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) congregation in Cape Town, South Africa, by its Imams and elected board of governors during the course of the pandemic. The book carries a concluding chapter by Professor R. Scott Appleby, an expert in the study of lived religion, who critically reflects on this collection of sermons and the response of the mosque by providing some independent ruminations on the themes of religion, science, and the human person.</span></span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-55319651756844864702023-11-01T01:47:00.000-07:002023-11-01T01:47:00.256-07:00New Book Release: Emory University School of Medicine<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Smartest and Most Promising: A History of the Emory University School of Medicine</i> by Armand E. Hendee and Juha P. Kokko</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px;">This book traces the distinguished history of the Emory University School of Medicine from its inception to the current day and highlights the intellect, strength, endurance, and hard work of the many who planned and built an internationally renowned health-sciences center. From its earliest days as a small “practitioner’s school” struggling to stay afloat, the Emory University School of Medicine has followed a path to its current place of eminence in teaching, patient care, and research.</span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-37075266732020448032023-10-02T01:19:00.003-07:002023-10-02T01:19:34.120-07:00New Book Release: Humanism<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Humanism: In Command or in Crisis?</i> by Michael A. Schuler</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">According to bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari, today's average American has their foot in three ideological camps: nationalism, free market capitalism, and humanism. The first two might seem obvious, but the third? It's entirely possible that most who qualify for that label would be hard pressed to explain its meaning, much less use it self-descriptively. This book is designed to serve two important purposes: First, to provide an accessible resource for anyone curious about the humanist tradition and the arguments advanced by leading contemporary proponents. Second, to address what the author believes is a critical question for our time, the era of the Anthropocene: Is humanism's seemingly benign package of values at least partially responsible for some of the world's most pressing problems? To answer the last question, Schuler draws from an eclectic collection of commentators, including life scientists, spiritual writers, public intellectuals, technologists, novelists, and even poets. In the end, this wide-ranging survey will help the reader determine whether humanism makes sense for them.</span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-91936633426789685532023-10-02T01:06:00.002-07:002023-10-02T01:06:13.375-07:00New Book Release: Werewolf Stories<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Werewolf Stories: Shape-Shifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts</i> by Nick Redfern and Brad Steiger</h2><p><br /></p><p><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Beware the Full Moon! Take a hair-raising tour of werewolf legends. Meet shape-shifters, dogmen, and all variety of human and lupine mixes in this blood curling story collection from two distinguished paranormal researchers!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">From today's lycanthropic creatures found in pop culture such as </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Dracula</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Twilight</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">An American Werewolf in London</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> to the earliest mentions in folklore of the shape-shifting legend, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Werewolf Stories: Shape-Shifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is an eye-opening tour through the ages of all things werewolf. Along the way, readers land at the doorstep of creatures like serial killer Fritz Haarmann, tiger people and their thirst for human blood, Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, shapeshifters of all kinds and sizes, and even a spell to repel werewolves. This fascinating tome provides 140,000 years of blood-pounding evidence of strange and obsessional behavior. It tells of stories of becoming a werewolf and the intricacies of slaying the beast. A true homage to the creature, it includes full moon of topics such as …</span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fenrir, the wolf child of the giantess Angrboda and the god Loki, from the Old Norse myth of Ragnarok</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Notorious serial killers, including Peter Stumpp and Michael Lupo, who thought themselves to be—and modeled their crimes on—werewolves</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Coyote people, tricksters, and were-animals of Navajo legend</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Basque butchers of Louisiana and the loup-garou</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Diana, the goddess of the wilderness and the hunt, and her pack of hunting dogs, who once ruled all the dark forests of Europe</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leopard creature-men and the deadly cult whose members expressed their were-leopard lust for human blood and flesh that has been in existence in West Africa for several hundred years</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The “werewolf of the Dordogne,” Francis Leroy, and his uncontrollable bloodlust during the full moon</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The secret terrorist group Organization Werewolf, established in 1923, and its possible allegiance to Adolf Hitler</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ghouls from Arabic folklore, the demonic Djinns that hover near burial grounds and sustain themselves on human flesh stolen from graves</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tasmania’s thylacine and sightings of the “probably extinct” creature and its remarkable—and frightening—jaw capacity</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alaska’s Kushtaka and other stories of the Bigfoot man-beast</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Puerto Rico’s chupacabra and its powerful goat-like legs, three-clawed feet, and penchant for sucking blood</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Doñas de Fuera of Sicily, small fairies who looked human, aside from their paw-like feet, and were cruel and dangerous when crossed</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Enkidu, perhaps our earliest written record of a man-beast that appears on a Babylonian fragment circa 2000 BCE and tells the story of King Gilgamesh and his werewolf-like friend in </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Epic of Gilgamesh</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">And many more stories and histories of werewolves, night-stalkers, lycanthropes, and man-beasts</span></li></ul><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Noted cryptozoologists and paranormal researchers Nick Redfern and Brad Steiger share personal stories and encounters with werewolves in </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Werewolf Stories</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. They take a deep dive into the legends, the history, the pop-culture take on the man-beast. It's a wild and weird road-trip into the mystery-filled domain of the disturbingly real world of shape-shifters and werewolves!</span></div><p></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-86973499270816567452023-10-02T01:03:00.005-07:002023-10-02T01:03:53.155-07:00New Book Release: American Ghost Stories<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States</i> by Michael A. Kozlowski and Richard Estep</h2><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Take an eerie road trip! A chilling collection of true ghost stories spanning every state in the United States with a full range of ghostly manifestations and haunted locations!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">From séances to shiny graveyards, take a ghostly journey across the United States. Visit the highways and byways of the supernatural across the country and in each state in the union. </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> tours possessed houses, unearthly burial sites, forbidding farms, sinister forests, school bathrooms, and all manner of places haunted by spectral visitors, including …</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sullivan, Maine, and Nelly Butler, America’s “first ghost.”</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wilder, Kentucky, and Bobby Mackey’s Music World, which was originally built as a slaughterhouse and then served at various times as a honky-tonk, bingo hall, biker bar, and cocktail lounge before becoming a direct portal to Hell.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The Pfister Hotel, where every U.S. president since William McKinley stayed—as did Elvis Presley—and its weird noises, flickering lights, malfunctioning electronics, and moving objects.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Exeter, Rhode Island, and Mercy Lena Brown, the vampire ghost that was caught on a YouTube video.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">San Jose, California, and the maze-like Winchester House, which was allegedly designed to confuse ghosts that haunted the original owner … and have continued to haunt people ever since.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Skirvin Hotel, the historic Art Deco hotel, former speakeasy, and location of several gunfights that is haunted full time by Effie, a Prohibition-era chambermaid.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the numerous sightings at the Betsy Ross House. </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Huntsville, Alabama, and the Maple Hill Cemetery, the internment site for governors, U.S. senators, representatives, and soldiers that is the site of … a playground!</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, and Pavla Blanca, the woman in white roaming the dunes of the White Sand National Monument.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">And many more paranormal experiences, poltergeists, residual hauntings, curses, witches, prisons, bridges, mental institutions of an America plagued with spirits, phantoms and ghosts!</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">More than merely a collection of 50 true ghost stories, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">American Ghost Stories</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> puts you in the middle of the eerie action with captivating stories that would be at home at any midnight campfire. The only difference is that these stories aren't urban legends or fantasies meant to scare you. These stories live right next door to every one of us. We suggest you don’t read them when you are home alone and the lights begin to flicker!</span></p></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-53980823259705125622023-10-02T00:52:00.004-07:002023-10-02T00:52:23.140-07:00New Book Release: Grace Upon Grace<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Grace Upon Grace: Holy Innocents at 150</i></h2><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The birth of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church was, to say the least, difficult. Atlanta was trying to rebuild itself in the wake of the Civil War and the city was in ruins. From this dismal scene emerged Mary Ellen “Nellie” Peters, an Episcopalian seeking to do charity work for orphans and the poor, who were “utterly destitute,” as one document noted. By 1872, she had established a Sunday School mission named Chapel of the Holy Innocents.</p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Grace Upon Grace—Holy Innocents</em> at 150 shows it was not always easy. But the growth of the church continued its march, buying land and erecting new buildings. And as those edifices aged and were outgrown, even more space was sought, which is how Holy Innocents ending up with land in Sandy Springs in 1955.</p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s difficult to reconcile the inspiring, soaring home of Holy Innocents today with its early beginnings. But the work of the church is as apparent as ever. Its efforts are alive in fields as diverse as Civil Rights, hospice support, homelessness, the city’s food bank, poverty, missions in other countries, and its well-tended Annual Giving Fund, not to mention the everyday—but impressive—daily ministry and operations.</p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, the church operates the highly acclaimed Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, an institution that itself had a difficult birth and now ranks as one of the premier—and largest—Episcopal schools in America.</p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-53912846114971917762023-10-02T00:48:00.001-07:002023-10-02T00:48:22.672-07:00New Book Release: William Barnet & Son<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>William Barnet & Son: 125 Years of Solutions</i></h2><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The story told in <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">William Barnet & Son – 125 Years of Solutions</em> takes you on a geographical and solution-driven journey, the company oftentimes purchasing raw materials with no clear end product in mind, and then creating a product that brings value in a market. This commitment to provide solutions has led to relationships with some of America’s most well-known brands, relationships that still exist today. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #353535; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Ultimately, the Barnet story is one of relationships—with its customers and suppliers, with its longtime employees, many of whom have worked over 40+ years with the company, and with the three generations of Barnet family leadership that laid the foundation. Today’s Barnet team, whose collective experience and longevity with the company is impossible to place a value upon, is poised to move the company forward into an even brighter future. </p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-31945272613277983542023-08-01T02:44:00.002-07:002023-08-01T02:44:06.727-07:00New Book Release: Warnings<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy</i> by Leonard Grob and John K. Roth</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his followers endanger democracy in the United States. With Vladimir Putin's ruthless assault against Ukraine compounding the difficulties, democracy must not be taken for granted. Americans love democracy--except when we don't. That division and conflict mean that democracy will be on the ballot in the 2024 American elections. Probing the prospects, <i>Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy</i> features exchanges between us that underscore the most urgent threats to democracy in the United States and show how to resist them. What's most needed is ethical patriotism that urges us Americans to be our best selves. Our best selves defend liberal democracy; they strive for inclusive pluralism. Our best selves resist decisions and policies like those that led to the Holocaust or genocidal war in Ukraine or conspiracies to overturn fair and free elections in the United States. Our best selves reject antisemitism and racism; they oppose hypocrisy and autocracy. Our best selves hold lying leaders accountable. Our best selves believe that, against all odds, democracy can win out if we never give up trying to be our best.</span></span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-30220310569459477112023-07-03T01:30:00.001-07:002023-07-03T01:30:08.998-07:00New Book Release: Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks: True Stories of American Corruption</i> by Richard Estep</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">Power, Money, Sex: The Corrupt Trifecta! This captivating book uncovers the insidious web of deceit that infiltrates every facet of our nation's past and present. Immerse yourself in the stories of 50 of the most audacious frauds, cons, and lies!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Discover the dark underbelly of American history as you delve into the gripping pages of </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks: True Stories of American Corruption</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. From the heights of Wall Street to the heart of Main Street, from the hallowed halls of the Capitol to the battlefields of the military, and from the glitz and glamour of entertainment to the sanctity of science, no realm is immune to the clutches of corruption. Through meticulous research, this riveting account exposes both notorious figures and obscure swindles, including …<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Bernie Madoff's infamous Ponzi schemes</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Big Pharma scandals</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the Black Sox</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the dark secrets of the Catholic Church</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Operation ABSCAM</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the seedy underworld of the Mafia</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Harvey Weinstein</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Corruption in the White House</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the Enron deceit</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the shocking depths of NYPD corruption</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the Lehman Brothers collapse</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the Watergate break-in and cover-up</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the Clinton/Lewinsky affair</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">J. Edgar Hoover’s abuse of power</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">the Sackler family’s opioid empire</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">and many other dishonest and duplicitous people and organizations!!</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">With more than 120 photos and graphics, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. In the pursuit of money, influence, and fame, the line between right and wrong sometimes becomes blurred, leaving a trail of shattered trust and broken dreams. Take an illuminating journey into the cons, scams, and shady deals that have shaped our nation.</span></span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-20354362577747768662023-07-03T01:24:00.004-07:002023-07-03T01:24:52.525-07:00New Book Release: The Afterlife Book<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>The Afterlife Book: Heaven, Hell, and Life After Death</i> by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">A profound and fascinating exploration of death and the afterlife! Christian and other religious beliefs, rituals from around the world, quests for immortality, scientists’ conclusions, ghosts, and more!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What happens when we die? Many view it as a mystery, but there are tantalizing clues to be found in the Bible and other religious scriptures, scientific findings, historical writings, literature, reports of near-death experiences, and in many other recorded sources. Facing the contradictions and similarities of beliefs from all over the world and throughout history, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Afterlife Book: Heaven, Hell, and Life After Death</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> shows how death and the afterlife is viewed in a variety of different ways. This engrossing guide looks at the many competing views of the afterlife—and the shared connections between them, including ...</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">Where ideas of Heaven and Hell came from and why they endure.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">What happens during near death experiences and out of body experiences,</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">What is known about reincarnation and immortality.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">How death is linked to ghosts and apparitions, mediumship, and spiritualism.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">How the quest for immortality and transhumanism may play a role in one day ending death.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">How science and spirituality can often say the same thing—only in different languages and terminologies.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">How death and the dead have been celebrated, memorialized, and honored in the past and present.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">What happens to the human body just before, during, and immediately after physical death.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">What happens to the cells, tissues, heart, and brain as a result of the physical process of dying and decomposition.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">How burial and cremation traditions, rites, rituals, and controversies address consciousness and the existence of a soul.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">What religious leaders, philosophers, and scientists have to say about consciousness and the soul.</span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">Whether animals and pets have souls.</span></span></span></li></ul><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span class="a-list-item" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is death just a mysterious phase in our journey? Does it lead to Heaven (or Hell)? Is it reincarnation or simply eternal blackness and unconsciousness? Do we continue to exist in some form or other beyond our physical bodies? </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Afterlife Book</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> tackles these questions and gives us all hope that our lives do not come to an end but change like the natural cycles of birth, life, death, and rebirth! It’s many photos and illustrations help bring the text to life, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.</span></span></p></span>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-65069151826650830972023-07-03T01:19:00.001-07:002023-07-03T01:19:16.738-07:00New Book Release: Handy Supreme Court<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book: The History and Issues Explained</i> by David L. Hudson, Jr.</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;">The U.S. Supreme Court, its decisions, and its nominating process for new justices are often in the news … but are just as often not well understood. Constitutional law professor David L. Hudson, Jr., explains the cases, processes, and important history with this in-depth primer on the U.S. Supreme Court.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">How has the Supreme Court justices’ thinking on gun rights, abortion, free speech, freedom of religion, and many other controversial issues evolved? What were some of the court’s most important and monumental decisions … </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">and</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> failures? Which justices have—and have had—the most influence on the court? Has the nominating process always been so political and bitter?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Covering the history, nominating process, and court decisions on individual and other rights as well as a few fun facts, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book: The History and Issues Explained</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by David L. Hudson, Jr., J.D. provides you with 600 answers to questions such as …</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"></span></span></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">How was the U.S. Supreme Court created?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Under the Constitution, who appoints Supreme Court justices?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Have any Supreme Court justices been impeached?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which president introduced an infamous court-packing plan in 1937?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which Supreme Court justice in the 20th century did not have a law degree?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">What are some suggestions for reforming the confirmation process?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">What did the Rehnquist Court decide in the 2000 presidential election?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Why did Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissent in the Lily Ledbetter case?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which justice wrote that he couldn’t define obscenity, but “I know it when I see it”?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">When did the Supreme Court establish the so-called “Miranda Rights”?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">How did the Supreme Court emphasize privacy protection for cell phone searches?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">How has the Supreme Court dealt with the death penalty for juveniles?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">In what infamous decision did the Supreme Court regard African Americans as slaves and property?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">When did the Supreme Court invalidate a ban on interracial marriages?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Why was the decision in </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Roe v. Wade</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"> not the leading story in many newspapers on the date of its decision?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Why, according to Justice Samuel Alito, was </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Roe</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"> such a bad decision?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Why is interpreting the Second Amendment perhaps more of a challenge than other amendments in the Bill of Rights?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Who was the only Supreme Court Justice to have signed the Declaration of Independence?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which Justice wrote a book about the United States as a Christian nation?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which Justice wrote a book on civil disobedience and protest?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">What Supreme Court justice was formerly a member of the Ku Klux Klan?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">What is the nickname of the Supreme Court Building?</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-family: times;">Which justice was nicknamed “The Lone Ranger”?</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: times;">Analyzing controversial issues and various points of view, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: times; font-style: italic !important;">The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: times;"> sheds a light on the differing and changing interpretations of the critical issues before the court, as well as the confirmation process and some of the court’s most important justices. Richly illustrated, it also has a helpful bibliography, glossary, and extensive index. Thoroughly updated since it was last published fifteen years ago, this invaluable resource will help you understand the rulings and importance of the U.S. Supreme Court!</span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-43273710349870876842023-07-03T01:09:00.001-07:002023-07-03T01:09:12.465-07:00New Book Release: Ghosts of the Arizona<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Ghosts of the Arizona</i> by Alan Scott</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">Why did a scuba diver desecrate a shrine dedicated to the people who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and who killed him?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Hawai'i Psionic Officer Kenny Nu'uani is visiting the USS Arizona National Memorial when a body is found floating above the wreckage. Kenny realizes that the man had entered the ship, desecrating a shrine, erected in memory of the sailors who perished on the USS Arizona, December 7, 1941. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">With the help of the US Navy, Kenny investigates the man's death and discovers the man was murdered. Two FBI agents are dogging his heels as they try to stay ahead of the psionic officer. Kenny must use all his powers to find out what was the diver looking for, who killed him, and why. If he isn't careful, he could be added to the list of people who died on the Arizona.</span></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">What was he doing there? Was he looking for something?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-76885501249581705592023-05-01T04:13:00.003-07:002023-05-01T04:13:17.073-07:00New Book Release: The Astrology Guide<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>The Astrology Guide: Understanding Your Signs, Your Gifts, and Yourself</i> by Claudia Trivelas and Katharine Merlin</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How does each planetary sign, each house, and the relationships between planetary bodies influence your life? This essential guide lets you harness the energy of your unique astrological influences and gifts!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Building on the basics of traditional astrology with an in-depth understanding of the 12 signs, 12 houses, the planets, and the planetary combinations, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Astrology Guide: Understanding Your Signs, Your Gifts, and Yourself</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> includes interpretations of the asteroid Chiron and the recently discovered dwarf planets Ceres, Eris, and Sedna. Beginner and advanced practitioners will benefit from its mastery of chart interpretation and its understanding of the gifts (and challenges) of planetary energies.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rather than interpreting planetary influences as "good" or "bad,” thereby putting the individual in a box, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Astrology Guide</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> looks at the "gift" and the corresponding "shadow" each planet, sign, house placement, and planetary combination in the astrology chart offers. The “shadow” is a concept first coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that describes those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject or repress, and embracing the planetary shadow creates personal empowerment. The planets are not doing something to you; instead, you can learn to interact with them, dance with their energy, and exist in harmony with them. This informative guide aids in self-discovery and furthers self-empowerment by helping you answer questions such as …</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"></span></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Who are you?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">What makes you unique?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Do you know your unique gifts?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">What needs to be healed before you fully embrace your unique self?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Are there obstacles interfering with expressing your unique gifts or are these obstacles the gift?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Is there a story you are reflecting that is influenced by a prominent planet, asteroid, or a newly discovered dwarf planet in your chart?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">How do you relate to the Moon's Nodal influences in your birth chart?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Is there an archetypal story that resonates with you?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">How do the minor aspects to your Personal Planets enrich your understanding of your talents and abilities?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">What are the flaws or the “shadows” following you around?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Are those shadows bringing you down …, taking away your joy?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Do these shadows include traumas, blocks, and wounds?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">And, much, much more!</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Astrology Guide</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> will develop your resilience to life’s cycles and outer influences and show you the unconscious parts of yourself that subtly influence your behavior. Numerous photographs and illustrations, a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index add to its usefulness. Learn about your innate, unique gifts and gain satisfaction, fulfillment, and confidence!</span></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-68896772522798267702023-04-02T00:31:00.004-07:002023-04-02T00:31:24.160-07:00New Book Release: American Cults<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders</i> by Jim Willis</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-weight: 700 !important;">America has spawned hundreds of cults. Charismatic leaders periodically burst into the news for the most awful of reasons. We are awash with stories of brainwashed members’ struggles to leave. Meet the messianic leaders, see the indoctrination and manipulation, look at their beliefs, and read the stories of some of America’s most notorious, eccentric, and unusual cults!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">From false religions and offshoots of traditional religions to political, financial, sexual, and hate groups, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> looks at 40 groups and leaders, including their histories, deceits, manipulations, and twisted ideologies. Some rely on systems of obedience, submission, and dependency. More than a few have mystifying beliefs. Others are dark and murderous. You’ll encounter curious, bizarre, and sometimes upsetting stories of …</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Charming, manipulative, and exploitative leaders</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—Jim Jones, Jim Baker, David Berg, David Koresh, and many, many others.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The breakaways from traditional religions</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—Father Divine and the Peace Mission, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Westboro Baptist Church, the Gospel of Prosperity, and many more.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Political, Ponzi, metaphysical, and science schemes</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—the cult of the scientific method, pyramid schemes, political cults, the Unification Church, and much more.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Aliens, extraterrestrials, and the cosmos</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—Church of Scientology, Raëlians and Heaven’s Gate, to name a few.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">End-times and doomsday cults</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—rapture beliefs, Edgar Cayce, the Ant Hill Kids and more.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Racial, radical, and social media cults</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—QAnon, Ku Klux Klan, Oath Keepers, Antifa, and others.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Sex, perversity, and submission</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—NXIVM, Sullivanians, Rajneesh, and many more.</span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">American Cults</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> looks at why America is such a fertile ground for cults, how some people got caught in their webs, and how some managed to escape! With more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography provides sources for further exploration, and an extensive index adds to its usefulness.</span></span></p>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-59632143772033747282023-04-02T00:25:00.002-07:002023-04-02T00:25:19.795-07:00New Book Release: Muscle Bound<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>Muscle Bound</i> by Alan Scott</h2><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">What if your best friend is a murderer?</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Pryce Nolton, a good friend of Josh Chambers, Utah's Psionic Officer, is found holding a bloody knife next to three bodies, all of them stabbed to death. Pryce has no memory of the crime, and even Josh's powers cannot determine if he did or did not commit triple-homicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Salt Lake City police are convinced they have the right man and do not buy into the memory-loss excuse. They think Pryce experienced a roid rage incident and stabbed his friends to death.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Josh is not convinced that Pryce could murder his friends in cold blood, but all the evidence points to Pryce's guilt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">While Josh is dealing with the investigation, his efforts are impeded by a series of drug thefts from hospital pharmacies.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Josh must find out what happened that deadly evening or else his friend might be sentenced to death.</span></div><p></p><p></p></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-48662163962295782472023-03-01T00:36:00.002-08:002023-03-01T00:36:34.043-08:00New Book Release: The Witches Almanac<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i>The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age</i> by Charles Christian</h2><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Real Witches. Real Lives. Real Magic. Real History. Take a magical tour through the lives and times of 359 of the most important sorcerers and witches throughout history.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">For millennia there’s been a fascination and a fear of people possibly wielding magical powers and a stigma surrounding practitioners of ancient rituals and practices. Yet, in the last 70 years, witchcraft, as well as Wicca, have gone from taboo beliefs pursued by a handful of eccentrics and misfits to major global, spiritual movements. Meet the troublemakers and rebels who pushed for change in </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches, and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. You’ll be introduced to the history, persecutions, conjurings, and magic of some of history’s most consequential witches, sorcerers, wizards, and mavericks, including … </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Circe</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Medea</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Hermes Trismegistus</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">the Chaldean Magi</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and other Ancient Roman and Classical Greek witches</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Merlin</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Morgana le Fey</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Nimue</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">the 10 Queens of Avalon</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and sorcery and witchcraft in the Arthurian legends</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">San Cipriano</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the obscure 4th century bishop whose influence today still plays an important role in folk magic and Hoodoo practices</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Baba Yaga</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Joan of Arc</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Gilles de Rais</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Alice Kyteller</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Lord Soulis</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Michael Scott</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">the Golem of Prague</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and medieval witchcraft</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">King Henry VI</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Anne Boleyn</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">King Henry VIII</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Catherine de Medici</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">John Dee</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Queen Elizabeth</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and witchcraft in the British royal court</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Isobel Gowdie</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, illusive Scottish witch whose voluntary confessions provided the template for traditional witchcraft beliefs</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Isaac Newton</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Friar Roger Bacon</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Nicholas Flamel</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Paracelsus</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Cornelius Agrippa</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robert Boyle</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and other alchemists</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Burning Times of the late 16th to early 18th centuries</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Berwick witch trial</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Salem witch trial</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Aleister Crowley</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">W. B. Yeats</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">MacGregor Mathers</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Eliphas Levi</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the Golden Dawn, Thelema and ritual magic, and the rise of esoteric movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Jack Parsons</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, described as the “Jet-Propelled Antichrist” whose life of sex, rockets, and magic ended prematurely in a mysterious explosion</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Gerald Gardner</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Old Dorothy Clutterbuck</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Alex Sanders</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robert Cochrane</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Raymond Buckland</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Lady Sheba</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Marjorie Cameron</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and others in the modern Wicca and witchcraft movement</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">And much more!!</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You’ll get a deeper understanding of the obscure history of witches with this enchanting and bewitching tome! </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Witches Almanac</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> brings you their rich histories and extraordinary biographies, plus it includes a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.</span></p></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-54431650610758007322023-02-01T00:04:00.003-08:002023-02-01T00:04:50.622-08:00New Book Release: The Serial Killer Next Door<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers</i> by Richard Estep</h2><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">How well do you know your neighbors? Maybe you should get to know them better! Growing up, we are taught that monsters are easy to identify, but the truth is very different. Too often, the serial murderer does not stand out. Otherwise, he, or she, would get caught.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The contrast between the ordinary-seeming lives that provided cover for their cruel secrets is exposed in </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. To their coworkers, neighbors, and others who knew them, they led unremarkable lives. They had careers as military pilots, police officers, landscapers, small business owners, farmers, realtors, reporters, authors, veterinary technicians, nurses, doctors, handymen, painters, and chefs, while they simultaneously stalked city suburbs, college campuses, trailer parks, and red-light districts. This chilling book looks at the horrifying stories of nearly 30 malevolent killers (and hundreds of innocent victims) who were mistakenly trusted, including …</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Genene Jones</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, a nurse responsible for the murder of 60 infants and children in her care. She’s said to be the inspiration for Stephen King’s iconic character of Annie Wilkes, in </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Misery</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – and her nephew broke into King’s home, threatening to blow up the writer and his family because of it!</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robert Lee Yates</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard who, when caught, buried one body outside his bedroom window as his wife slept.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Gary Ridgway</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, also known as the Green River Killer, went undetected for 20 years, working for 30 years as a painter for a truck company and married for 17 years.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Kathleen Folbigg</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, whose three children were at first thought to have died from natural causes. She only got caught when her husband found her personal diary.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Joseph James DeAngelo</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, who worked various jobs, including as a police officer and a truck mechanic. He went on a decades-long crime spree and was finally caught with the help of DNA evidence. His case was instrumental in the establishment of California's DNA database.</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">And dozens of other serial killers!</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s chilling to realize that many serial killers have created second lives that are completely divorced from the brutality and evils they commit. It’s incomprehensible to think that they are able to flip a switch, transforming them from apparently loving, ordinary men and women into torturous, homicidal slaughterers. With more than 120 photos and graphics, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Serial Killer Next Door</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. We trust our neighbors, coworkers, and acquaintances. Of course, we do. It's ominous to think that we can't!</span></p></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489560830888528164.post-14403231632478305722023-02-01T00:00:00.005-08:002023-02-01T00:00:45.924-08:00New Book Release: Runaway Science<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><i>Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors</i> by Nick Redfern</h2><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Will computers come to dominate man? Will advanced technology, robots and artificial intelligence enhance or destroy our future … and thereby changing us forever!?! Learn about the history, the menace and opportunities of technology—as well as possible futures—in this one-of-a-kind book!</span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is technology running amok or is it serving as a helping hand? Is it a threat or a benefit? </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> presents the ominous, and some encouraging, stories of how technology has shaped our past and might shape our future. It dives into the question of mankind’s future. An exhilarating </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">and troubling</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> read, it looks at whether robots and technology are a threat or a boon to humanity. Its investigations include …</span></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robocops and robots in the police force</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robots replacing people in the workplace</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The high tech of ancient times</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Clones, androids, modified humans, cyborgs, designer babies, and half-human robots</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">CIA plots to control our minds</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The sentient internet</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Monitoring our every move with microchip implants</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The threat of unfathomable alien intelligence and technology</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The singularity of uncontrollable and irreversible supplanting of human intelligence with technological intelligence</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Science fiction and science fact—and how science fiction foreshadowed the future</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Clandestine technological dangers and government mind-control plots</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Robotic limbs, androids and half-humans</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The prospect of uploading our minds into computers to ensure immortality</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Whether robots will rise up and cause humans to become extinct</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And much, much more.</span></div><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">With more than 100 photos and illustrations, this riveting read is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Ponder the possibilities with this examination of the menace of robots, artificial intelligence, and technology of the past, present, and future. Exciting and worrisome, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Runaway Science</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> looks at past horrors and future dangers of technology!</span></div></span><p></p></span></li></ul></div>Shoshana Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234983651685375484noreply@blogger.com0