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Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult

This anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric Tombe, whose body was located because of a recurring dream in which his mother saw Eric down a well; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, in the early nineteenth century by the nocturnal appearance of a "ghost"; the Salem witchcraft trials; the murder of Rasputin, who was...

On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where notorious murders occurred--the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by "thrill-killers" Leopold and Loeb, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the escapades of Al Capone in Chicago; the Henwood-VonPhul-Springer affair in Denver; the murders of Marian Williams and...

"A refreshing look at social media, influence and the behavioral science behind it all. A must-read for anyone who wants to win at social." - Jonah Berger (NYT Bestselling author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On)

***Discover how to get the right type of people to talk about you.***

ARE YOU SHARING GREAT WORK, but it seems nobody is listening? Does it seem like you're at the mercy of social networks' mysterious algorithms? Do you feel like it is an insurmountable task to understand and leverage social media?

In Viralnomics: How to Get People to Want to Talk About You, Jonathan...

Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"--evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction--that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to...

"A look at personal training that goes beyond the textbooks." - Muscle & Fitness

Now in a revised, expanded, and upgraded edition, Ignite the Fire is the highly practical approach to personal training already relied on by thousands of trainers Worldwide.

Repeatedly called one of the "best books for personal trainers," it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer, to getting a personal trainer certification, to building your career from the bottom up so you can build a clientele, your reputation, and income....

Internet marketing expert Jonathan Edward Goodman presents the first book in his three part series: The World of Internet Marketing. This book takes the reader on a journey from building an online presence to enhancing their Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategies. Along the way the reader will learn secrets of social media marketing and how to make their sites accessible for all devices. For the novice, this book is a step into the adventure of online marketing. For the expert, this book serves as a refresher of critical areas needed to succeed. FEATURES: How to gain online...

Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises social, ecological, political. In the past, crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations, and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements become a crucial barometer, in signalling both the demise and rise of political formations and programs. Elite strategies, framed as crisis management, create their own disordering side-effects. Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance, as do contending elite efforts at repressing, managing or displacing the fall-out. In...

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong...