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The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants • Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances • Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights...

In this addition to the acclaimed The Church and Postmodern Culture series, leading practical theologian Christian Scharen examines the relationship between theology and its social context. He engages with social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to offer helpful theoretical and theological grounding to those...

Writing on an often overlooked section of contemporary Persian culture, A. Christian Van Gorder provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to the experience of Christians and other non-Muslims in Iran throughout history and into the present day. Van Gorder gives a fascinating account of the...

As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian C. Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. Among the Ruins blends history, memoir and reportage, drawing on the author's extensive knowledge of Syria in ancient,...

In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and cultural...

Im Jahr 1831 unternahm der berühmte dänische Dichter Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) eine ausgedehnte Reise durch deutsche Lande. Dabei erkundete er vor allem das Harz-Gebirge und die sächsische Schweiz. Andersens Märchen werden auf der ganzen Welt gelesen. Aber kaum jemand kennt diesen poetisch-schönen...

Warning: This 4200 word short story contains explicit scenes of an adult nature and is intended for mature audiences. What is hot older woman to do when she's alone with a handsome young man? Description: Jeannie is doing her best to be good. After years of a loveless marriage and many...

Diane is the guardian of the vessel E.S. Horizon, but things are not quite as they should be. There is a two century gap in her memory, her space suite seems to be optional and everyone is looking at her strangely. But she has a job to do, and she will do it no matter what. When they start using her...

A constructed servant is killing people in the old west town of Turning Springs. Traveling technician Amos Matthews and deputy Hank Bramwell must find out why and somehow stop the machine. But the local government has their own plans. If Matthews and Bramwell can find it....if they can stop the murders...will the town let them?

Unsere Städte wurden Höllen. Sie kamen über Nacht. Ihr Hunger war unstillbar. Sie fielen wie Heuschreckenschwärme über die Lebenden her. Zerrissen sie, fraßen, machten aus ihnen etwas Entsetzliches. In den Straßen herrscht verwestes Fleisch. Zwischen zerschossenen Häusern und Bombenkratern...

Ist eine unwahrscheinliche Wahrscheinlichkeit schlimmer als eine wahrscheinliche Unwahrscheinlichkeit? Was passiert, wenn sich das Motiv eines Gemäldes selbstständig macht? Kann man den Kampf gegen einen Drachen delegiert? Kann eine gesetzestreue Invasion eines Planeten gelingen? Was passiert nach...

Sacrificing the present to save the future. The Star Alliance is being obliterated in a surprise wide-scale attack by the Obsidian Empire who allied themselves with an ancient enemy that everyone thought extinct. The Damocles-3 R&D station is under attack as is every other world and base...

Demoni. Quali sembianze assumono? Dove si nascondono? Con quale atavico impulso riescono a scatenare la furia omicida dell’uomo? Ce lo dicono i fuoriclasse della narrativa fantastica italiana, capaci di inquadrare le orde del Diavolo sotto ogni punto di vista per restituirle al lettore in tutte...