The Big White Box is the story of discovering TRUTH. Truth then gives birth to Justice. An accidental experiment in a college laboratory propels a young PhD. candidate into a world of fame and romance. A retired Law Professor and his wife, also a brilliant lawyer, use this remarkable discovery to revolutionize courtroom proceedings in the United States. The search for truth requires only few seconds with this infallible device. But we know from history that all good things do not last forever: Germs become resistant to antibiotics, the internet is a blessing and a curse, democracy can yield to fascism, and discovering truth can be destroyed by unfounded fear.

Alice Little and Asa Hatterly, both child geniuses, were barely teens when they met in college and fell in love. War tore them apart when Asa went into the Army as a sharpshooter. They reconnect years later after Asa spent time in prison for a crime he's not even sure he committed. Did he really shoot a man or was he duped into believing he did? Did someone manipulate the evidence to point to Asa? Only Alice can help him find the answer. They're pulled into a world of twisted identities and political alliances involving the FBI and an ambitious Senator. When the candidate is attacked, they go into hiding, afraid Asa might once again become a convenient victim. But now those old events have resurfaced. That's when they discover who's a friend—and who's using them to get revenge.

"From award-winning Boise author, Adelaide McLeod, comes a rollicking look at life in the west, past and present. Told with Scottish verve and humor, these enchanting essays offer a glimpse into a life fully lived. McLeod's elegant writing offers the clear voice of a masterful storyteller with a questioning mind and a sympathetic heart." -Dennis Held, Editor and author of Betting on the Night "In vignette-like style, Adelaide McLeod has taken events and locations from her childhood through adulthood-from her back alley to the mountains of Peru-and extrapolated them into real insights for both her and the reader. Her ability to make a helix of the arcane around the mundane through her awareness of generational differences between value systems is most impressive." -Dr. Wallace K. Pond, Psychologist, and Professor at Boise State University

This story is both fact and fiction. Names, places, and some events have been changed. It is filled with humor, adventure, horror, sad times, happy times, and love. The main theme centers around the years when the Dawson family's life becomes a living hell: to the point where they are almost consumed by the fire. Later, it is believed a curse has been put on the family by an occult leader, Olivia Baal, who attended an Exorcist meeting in the family's home church. She attempts to possess Cealie Dawson's three children, and manages to get one under her control. When Cealie confronts Olivia and gets the child back, Olivia threatens Cealie and the entire family with evil things to come. The entire family almost loses their mind and their lives. Finally, Cealie cries out to God for some answers: How did this curse come about? Why did God allow it, and why the Dawson family?

This story will go into graphic detail of the sexual molestation that Michael endured from the man who was supposed to protect him; his own father. We all hear stories of sexual molestation, but normally it always consists of two people of the opposite sex. We often hear stories of incest, but very rarely do we hear stories of incest in conjunction with homosexuality. Michael, unwillingly, was a victim of both. Follow Michael's journey through the first twenty years of his life and find out how his torment was hidden from his devoted mother who eventually discovered her husband's deepest and darkest secrets. Read about how Michael comes to grips with his own sexuality and how he deals with the traumatic experiences that he would be forced to endure. What course would Michael's life take afterwards and who would he become? Would he grow to like other men? Or would he become bi-sexual. Would he be scarred for the rest of his life? Find out out in this page turning, rivetting tale.

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight he considers the key issues that have faced thinkers from Aristotle to Adorno, looking at art in its relation to ethics, metaphysics, society, politics, anthropology and the subject. Sloterdijk explores a variety of topics, from the Greco-Roman invention of postcards to the rise of the capitalist art market, from the black boxes and white cubes of modernism to the growth of museums and memorial culture. In doing so, he extends his characteristic method of defamiliarization to transform the way we look at works of art and artistic movements. His bold and original approach leads us away from the well-trodden paths of conventional art history to develop a theory of aesthetics which rejects strict categorization, emphasizing instead the crucial importance of individual subjectivity as a counter to the latent dangers of collective culture. This sustained reflection, at once playful, serious and provocative, goes to the very heart of Sloterdijk’s enduring philosophical preoccupation with the aesthetic. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and aesthetics and will appeal to anyone interested in culture and the arts more generally.

In Hackney, London, Zack Farmer – quirky, imaginative but bullied at school – has only one true friend in the world: Arthur. The trouble is, only Zack can see him, and one day Zack’s mum gets fed up, grabs Arthur, stuffs the handful of what she thinks is thin air into a box and posts it to Zack’s long-departed and vanished Scottish father, Stuart. In Cape Fury, Scotland, a farmer called Stuart opens the mysterious box. It contains something only his wee eight-year old girl, Kirstie can see: a befuddled, odd-looking little creature. A shiny green chap with an extra eye in the back of his head. A streetwise, Cockney ‘lad’, calling himself Arthur. But there’s one big problem – Arthur, so far from home and Zack, is fading fast. Quick-thinking Arthur has left a valuable part of himself behind in London. A tiny, green disc – a clue to save his life. So now loner Zack, usually so timid, has to set off on a perilous journey to rescue his imaginary friend before he fades away forever. But there’s one massive problem. Someone or something out there is trying to stop Zack… Paul A. Mendelson is a British writer known for his work on television and radio. His comedy series include the long-running, BAFTA-nominated BBC series May to December as well as So Haunt Me and My Hero. He wrote Losing It, a film for ITV starring Martin Clunes, which was nominated for the Televisual Best Writing Award and has been broadcast worldwide. Paul wrote the Radio 4 plays I am I said, Fireworks at the Villa Lucia and A Meeting In Seville. He has adapted the latter into a screenplay, which is currently in development. Recent radio dramas have included six adaptations of Joyce Porter’s crime novels about the appalling Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover and the highly-acclaimed CS Forester dramatisations, CS Forester’s London Noir. Paul created the cult series Neighbors From Hell, broadcast in the US. He has written two new US pilots and three movies with LA screenwriter Alan Moscowitz and is also developing comedy and drama projects elsewhere.

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If You Are Guilty of Something Consider: The Exculpatory by George W. Gill Mr. O is boss of The Exculpatory, and he doesn’t really intend any harm. He finds and enlists guilty but deserving people who will become operatives to help build his growing empire. His connections are so extensive that he can get almost anybody exculpated. He always needs his agents, because all of this is not easy to do when you’re just a brain floating in a tank of isotonic solution. Enter Agent Corbett, Mr. O’s top operative, with a weakness for raw oysters, Vegas casinos, and a well-made Manhattan. When strange happenings begin to occur on a small fishing island off the Eastern Seaboard, Agent Corbett and his team find themselves chasing intrigue through the high-tech estate of a maniacal businessman, a Western town besieged by a one-eyed bandit, and a tropical island hiding treasure… and danger. With threats looming everywhere, it’s up to Corbett and team to stop the evil SMEARS organization and to solve the mysteries of the Zuyder Zee.

Anna Olson, almost thirteen, hides something terrible that happened to her. That traumatic experience has stripped her of the ability to talk, and she now faces nightmarish fears. Torn from her sister, she must survive forty days in a residential treatment center with nothing but her demons to keep her company. With much difficulty, Anna begins to realize that she can and must face the reality of her life. She finds strength in the words of a dead poet, an amputee, an arsonist, a thief, and a horse. Each of them, in their own strange ways, leads her to discover herself. Still, demons linger. Can Anna overcome the wicked ways of Terrible Ted, deal with reality, and not get lost in the safety of her own head? Faced with rejection, fear, disillusionment, and ultimately hope, the final choice is up to Anna.