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The eleven-year collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann is often called the greatest director-composer partnership in cinema history. Their eight films together include such classic thrillers as Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. In Hitchcock and Herrmann, Steven C. Smith delivers an intimate account of how the reserved, but deeply anxious, Hitchcock found his ideal creative partner in the cantankerous, but deeply romantic, Herrmann.

Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a new approach to psychotherapy that reevaluates our most basic assumptions about mental health, and details how ACT can help you to embrace life and everything it has to offer.

Seventy-year-old British ex-pat miserymonger George Pearly lives on the Costa del Sol, all alone except for his ancient, three-legged dog, Ambrose. George hates his life and everybody in it. These feelings are mutual. Everyone hates George, too. From this unhappy equilibrium the situation quickly deteriorates. First, George discovers he is dying of a mystery illness. 

A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age.

In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith survey the extraordinary trajectory of Che's career, from an early politicization recounted in the Motorcycle Diaries, through meetings with his compaero Fidel Castro in Mexico, his vital role in the Cuban revolution, and his expeditions abroad to Africa and Latin America.

This box set includes the first three books in The Virginia Mysteries series!

In the Golden Age of Piracy, none was more dreaded than Blackbeard. Sam, Derek, and Caitlin head for a week’s vacation at Virginia Beach, where 300 years ago, pirates sailed the waters off the Atlantic Coast. As the kids explore the beach, they find suspicious activity from the neighboring military base that points to the discovery of a historic shipwreck - maybe even lost pirate treasure!

Secret of the Staircase: Something's lurking beneath the famous staircase at The Jefferson, Richmond's historic downtown hotel. Back in 1895, when the hotel opened, real alligators roamed free in the courtyard fountains. That was ages ago...or was it? When young brothers Sam and Derek arrive at The Jefferson for an elegant wedding weekend with their parents, they love exploring the old hotel. But when the wedding rings go missing and Sam is blamed, the boys and their friends must hunt down the truth no matter where it leads.

Bryce was so close to getting home. Now he’s back on the run, hiding from Rangers inside Final Kingdom waiting for the bridge to reopen. But time is running out. Mysterious glitches are tearing at the virtual world’s fabric and could leave him permanently stranded. Zach, Andrew, Jess, and Maggie think they’ve located Bryce, but the military has taken over control of the JOSHUA Project and getting Bryce home may no longer be their top priority. While Q2 has scattered and abandoned the Eden machine, Yao is determined to build something even more powerful from his base in China.

When Sam and Derek join Caitlin and her parents on a weekend trip to the southwest Virginia town of Abingdon, they can’t wait to watch their favorite actor perform at the historic Barter Theatre. But in the middle of a performance of Red Riding Hood, something goes terribly wrong.

From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate reinforcements bolstered the numbers of the Army of Tennessee, and by the time the two armies met at the Battle of Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, the Confederates had gained numerical superiority.

For decades we’ve been told a code, color, or four letters can capture who we are. Know your type, know yourself. It’s nice. It’s tidy. Except we’re not statues. We adapt, we evolve. All day, every day. That’s not a flaw. It’s human. UNTYPED is a revolt. A scientific shift from boxes and types to the underlying elements of who we really are. Built on a decade of research—200 interviews, 8,000 surveys, hundreds of real-world breakdowns and breakthroughs—UNTYPED reveals 25 elemental powers that drive: How you read a room. How you create. How you argue. How you negotiate. How ...

There’s a line most people never cross. A line between brilliant—talented, competent, impressive—and something harder to name. The place where impact feels disproportionate to credentials. Where presence bends rooms, ideas, and outcomes. Where you can’t quite explain it, but you feel it. This book is about that jump. The force of an eleven, beyond anything the scale was built to measure. We’re trained to chase strengths, traits, types. But the real differentiator isn’t personality. It isn’t skill. It isn’t even intelligence. It’s intensity. How your core traits behave under...

Stevens and Smith is an audio drama that follows detective Scott Stevens & Grace Smith as they work together, alongside Scotland Yard to uncover the truth about cases around London.

The Crow's Nest is a podcast about writing, books and creativity. I'll be talking about my book, Chasing Shadows, my work in progress, and chatting with fellow authors and creatives about their work and what makes them tick.

After all the transitions and changes taking place in my life over the last 53 years, I discovered that I am not my own. I realized that to be what you were created to be requires a hand of God to lead me in that direction. My stubbornness and hard heart caused the rug to be pulled out from under me. God looked at his clock and said it was his turn to us me for his glory.

I Is for Internet is the ninth book in an epic series of 26 horror anthologies. In this book, you will find a collection of 13 unsettling tales from some of the most imaginative independent horror writers on the scene today. Each story takes a new look at the potential horrors of the online world, from stalkers to cyber-demons, artificial intelligence to predators. I Is for Internet will plug you straight into the mainframe and have you desperate to pull the plug.

Glimmer is an incredibly off-beat and unconventional collection about the human experience—in long short stories alternating with 12 "experimental one-sentence novels". The stories are diverse, and deal with strange and surreal relationships.

This is Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk about football over food. They are together a writer, a commentator, a presenter and a pundit. Rory Smith is the Chief Soccer Correspondent of the New York Times, Steven Wyeth commentates for BT Sport and the BBC's Match Of The Day, Hugh Ferris is a presenter at BBC Sport, and Andy Hinchcliffe is a former England international (seven caps) who is now a pundit for Sky Sports. On each episode they discuss one footballing issue, while digesting a delicious lunch or brunch, and almost never reaching any sort of conclusion.

Steven Smith's evolution takes place in the most unprecedented way. He goes through transitions and changes of no permission of himself at all. God is pushing him into his sole purpose of him being on this earth. With all the ups and downs that is taking place, he continues to pray and trust God. With him being pulled back and forth between his lifestyle and God's lifestyle, he truly finds a way of surrendering to the will of God for his glory. Trying to find love in a man and God at the same time was spiraling out of control.