An uncontrolled murder-spree across the state of Texas arises when a recently fired mechanic, Vladimir Xyaklin, is challenged with mind-splitting schizophrenia. Vladimir finds himself piecing his childhood into his diagnosis. Looking for a lift from his loneliness, Vladimir takes in a miniature schnauzer wandering his yard. Self-pity embraces him as he discovers the only one he could talk to was incapable of speech. Blaming his mother’s abandonment for his father’s brutal suicide, hatred slowly devours Vladimir’s sanity. Vladimir finds himself among the Most Wanted list of Texas for crimes he doesn’t recall committing. Punished for the evil that lurks inside him, Vladimir believes his next move is the only option to end the misery fate designed him. Is this the end of the death toll, or has it just sparked the start of more horrendous actions?
Sussex, 1919. The Great War is over, but for Harriet Agnes McDougall its effects endure with a lingering uncertainty of exactly what became of her middle son, Malcolm in the trenches around Ypres. With peace now prevailing across Europe, Harriet decides to embark on a quest to discover precisely what happened to her son. As she works to uncover the facts of his death she encounters a range of dispossessed and affected young men who have returned from war to find that they no longer have a place in a changing world, something which Harriet McDougall is determined to do something about. For further information, and a FREE copy of the prequel to Goodwin's other series, The Forensic Genealogist, visit his website at nathandylangoodwin.com/books
An uncontrolled murder-spree across the state of Texas arises when a recently fired mechanic, Vladimir Xyaklin, is challenged with mind-splitting schizophrenia. Vladimir finds himself piecing his childhood into his diagnosis. Looking for a lift from his loneliness, Vladimir takes in a miniature schnauzer wandering his yard. Self-pity embraces him as he discovers the only one he could talk to was incapable of speech. Blaming his mother’s abandonment for his father’s brutal suicide, hatred slowly devours Vladimir’s sanity. Vladimir finds himself among the Most Wanted list of Texas for crimes he doesn’t recall committing. Punished for the evil that lurks inside him, Vladimir believes his next move is the only option to end the misery fate designed him. Is this the end of the death toll, or has it just sparked the start of more horrendous actions?
Morton Farrier was no longer at the top of his game. His forensic genealogy career was faltering and he was refusing to accept any new cases, preferring instead to concentrate on locating his own elusive biological father. Yet, when a particular case presents itself, that of finding the family of a woman abandoned in the midst of the Battle of Britain, Morton is compelled to help her to unravel her past. Using all of his genealogical skills, he soon discovers that the case is connected to The Spyglass File—a secretive document which throws up links which threaten to disturb the wrongdoings of others, who would rather its contents, as well as their actions, remain hidden forever. This is the fifth book in the Morton Farrier genealogical crime mystery series, although it can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story. Further information, and a FREE prequel story for the series, is available from the author's website at nathandylangoodwin.com
The volume provides rich accounts on the enforcement of core issues but also on theoretical and methodological advances of the frontier of the research field. Areas of study that are meritoriously included are business closure and characteristics of the present knowledge economy. New sectors of the research frontier include societal entrepreneurship and the diversity of entrepreneurship in emergent market economies as well as methodologies such as discourse analysis and narrative approaches. This anthology certainly contributes to the crafting of a European identity in the field of entrepreneurship research. Bengt Johannisson, Växjö University and Jönköping University, Sweden Many of the world s leading experts on entrepreneurship and economic growth explore important issues that impact new venture creation; the influences of the knowledge-based economy on economic development; factors that govern exit from entrepreneurship, and a variety of critical social influences on entrepreneurship and economic development. Like the previous three volumes in this series from the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, this is a significant contribution to entrepreneurship scholarship that has important insights for scholars and public policy-makers. William B. Gartner, Clemson University, US This state-of-the-art book provides a window on contemporary European entrepreneurship and small business research. The papers selected demonstrate the applied nature of entrepreneurship research as well as the various contributions that entrepreneurship can make to local, regional and national development. Written by international experts, the book reveals the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship in terms of substantive content and the methodologies employed. With both quantitative and qualitative approaches well represented, Entrepreneurship and Growth in Local, Regional and National Economies covers topics such as regional perspectives on entrepreneurship, new venture creation and growth, business exits, knowledge-based entrepreneurship and social inclusion. Furnishing the reader with rich and leading entrepreneurship research, this book will be invaluable for entrepreneurship and small business researchers as well as postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of entrepreneurship. Policy makers will also find much of great interest to them.
In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, Knapp uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality. Knapp explains how and why James found in psychical research a way to rethink the well-trodden approaches to classic Euro-American religious thought, typified by the oppositional categories of natural vs. supernatural and normal vs. paranormal. He demonstrates how James eschewed these choices and instead developed a tertiary synthesis of them, an approach Knapp terms tertium quid, the third way. Situating James's psychical research in relation to the rise of experimental psychology and Protestantism's changing place in fin de siecle America, Knapp asserts that the third way illustrated a much broader trend in transatlantic thought as it struggled to navigate the uncertainties and religious adventurism of the modern age.
Sussex, 1919. The Great War is over, but for Harriet Agnes McDougall its effects endure with a lingering uncertainty of exactly what became of her middle son, Malcolm in the trenches around Ypres. With peace now prevailing across Europe, Harriet decides to embark on a quest to discover precisely what happened to her son. As she works to uncover the facts of his death she encounters a range of dispossessed and affected young men who have returned from war to find that they no longer have a place in a changing world, something which Harriet McDougall is determined to do something about. For further information, and a FREE copy of the prequel to Goodwin's other series, The Forensic Genealogist, visit his website at nathandylangoodwin.com/books
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