The Compensation Review

The Compensation Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 834
Release: 1926
Genre: Employers' liability
ISBN:

Reports of all decisions rendered in workmen's compensation cases in the federal courts and in the state supreme courts.

Organized Criminal Activities

Organized Criminal Activities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1978
Genre: Organized crime
ISBN:

Expecting Armageddon

Expecting Armageddon
Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1135210365

The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, When Prophecy Fails. Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.

Writing News for Broadcast

Writing News for Broadcast
Author: Edward Bliss
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231079730

The authoritative guide to writing for the broadcast medium.

Conjure Wife

Conjure Wife
Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497616549

A professor discourages his wife’s witchcraft to disastrous ends in this Hugo Award–winning novel—that inspired three films—by the Grand Master of Fantasy. Ethnology professor Norman Saylor is shocked to discover that his wife, Tansy, has been putting his research on “Conjure Magic” into practice. She only wants to protect him from the other spell-casting faculty wives who would stop at nothing to advance their husbands’ careers. But Norman, as a man of science, demands she put an end to it. And when Tansy’s last charm is burned . . . Norman’s life starts falling apart. First, Norman has a disastrous run-in with a former protégé. Then his student secretary accuses him of seducing her. He’s even passed over for a promotion that had been certain. Plus he’s become exceedingly accident prone: from shaving to carpet tacks to letter openers, hazards are suddenly everywhere. At his wit’s end, he begins to worry that a dark presence is exploiting his fear of trucks. But the worst is yet to come—when Tansy takes his curse upon herself. Now, in order to save his wife, Norman must overcome his disbelief and embrace the dark magic he disdains. Winner of the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Award, Conjure Wife is widely celebrated as a modern classic of horror-fantasy and has been adapted for film three times: Burn, Witch Burn (1962), Weird Woman (1944), and Witch’s Brew (1980).