The Evil Land

In the neighborhood of Delmas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, shortages run rampant. The relief organization CAMEP is inefficient, making water very difficult to find. CAMEP is responsible for the water, but the organization’s inadequacies cause widespread panic and sometimes death. The people have no option but to go rogue. In the light of the water shortage, the Jourdain family works with two peasant brothers who sell water from the family’s reservoir, benefitting both themselves and the family. The brothers carry the water in buckets on their heads and fight to make a profit. Things go terribly wrong, however, when Mr. Jourdain’s greedy boss cheats him of his earnings; now the family has nowhere to turn. Lucky for them, their servant SeSe is knowledgeable in the ways of the underground; she will teach them to survive. Even so, the family soon learns that in desperate times, there is a thin line between good and evil. Good fights to survive, but the evil path is sometimes the easiest. How will the Jourdain family choose, and will their choice lead to salvation or death?

The gentle Karen, a tribe in Burma's eastern regions, call their country a land without evil. They number between four and five million, and have been fighting for half a century to keep their land and identity. Many - at least 40 per cent - are Christians, and have suffered particularly harsh treatment. Burma today, and Karen State in particular, is a land torn apart by evil. It is a land ruled by a regime which took power by force, ignored the will of the people in an election, and survives by creating a climate of fear. It is a land terrorised by a military regime which to this day perpetrates a catalogue of crimes against humanity. It takes people for forced labour, uses villagers as human minesweepers, captures children and forces them to become soldiers, systematically rapes ethnic minority women, and burns down villages and crops. It is a regime which has killed thousands of people in the ethnic minority areas. This compassionate but unflinching account of the Karen's predicament is an important step in galvanising Western opinion about this ongoing act of genocide.

A distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars examines the merits and shortcomings of Land-Value taxation, and how it compares and contrasts with the conventional property tax. The latter is shown as deterring enterprise to the detriment of employment and as pushing up the cost of improving property with inflationary consequences. The former, with evidence from places where it is already in use, is shown to encourage optimum land use, foster employment, and prevent urban sprawl.

Volume II of “The Devils And Evil Spirits Of Babylonia”, a 1903 work by Reginald C. Thompson that looks at the religion and spiritual beliefs of Babylon, the powerful kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia that existed from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. It includes English translations of various 'Evil Spirit Texts', which form large and important sections of the native literature concerning Babylonian and Assyrian demonology. Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876 – 1941) was a British archaeologist, cuneiformist, and Assyriologist. He is famous for his work on excavations at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo and Carchemish. Other notable works by this author include: “The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia” (1903–1904), “Semitic Magic: its Origins and Development” (1908), and “Archaeologia, Vol LXX” (1921). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941) studied oriental languages at Cambridge, and in 1899 began his career in the British Museum's department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities. Published in 1903-4, this two-volume work made a substantial contribution to modern knowledge of ancient Babylonian demonology and magical practices.

Can a naive southern girl and single mother of three sons thrive in the glamorous world of the rich and famous? Can she survive the seedy world of meth addicts to protect the lives of five beautiful, innocent little girls? Can she do all this while traveling the world and protecting her own family? It will surprise you what a tiny, headstrong Irish woman can accomplish when she is forced to confront evil. Go with the Author to tour the world and meet famous actors at the Hollywood Studios. Then take a roller coaster ride from hell with violent meth addicts and doped up crooked cops and judges. It's a ride you won't want to miss.