Unmasking The Mask

Drawing on archival sources, this is the first book to explore Thalberg's insights into casting, editing, story composition and the importance of the mass audience from a theoretical perspective.

Unmasking the Mask, the spiritual battle behind mental health brings together the secular and biblical perspective of mental illness. Paul talks about the spiritual struggle, where it involves two kingdoms. You will find that Unmasking the Mask will expose the enemy behind mental illness. You will discover holistic ways that may reverse or help you manage mental health.

From Halloween to Hollywood, from the Dogon of Africa to the Di Opera of China, masks have played a critical role in tradition, ritual, and meaning-making. In these long months of COVID-19, mask-wearing became a part of everyday dress and the center of critical debate. During 2020, we saw two crises intersect: the pandemic and police racial brutality--in the protests that followed, masks were seen everywhere. The common assumption is that masks hide, yet often, in many cultures, masks reveal the true nature of people. In Signal Hill Road's UNMASKING, we explore the above along with critical questions: what is at the core of the resistance to masks? How did people creatively innovate with face masks in the last year? As we continue in 2021, a unspoken theme of the last year has been "Mask On / Eyes Open."

"UnMasking Alzheimer's: The Memories Behind the Masks" is a a collection of photographs of the thirty masks created by Alzheimer's advocate and artist, Cynthia Huling Hummel along with her reflections on the challenges and hopes of living well with an AD diagnosis.

Masks have been a ubiquitous and oft-politicized aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Years of painstakingly organized pre-pandemic planning documents led public health experts to initially discourage the use of masks, or even insinuate that they could lead to increased rates of spread. Yet seemingly in a matter of days in spring 2020, leading infectious disease scientists and organizations reversed their previous positions and recommended masking as the key tool to slow the spread of COVID and dramatically reduce infections. Unmasked tells the story of how effective or ineffective masks and mask mandate policies were in impacting the trajectory of the pandemic throughout the world. Author Ian Miller covers the earliest days of the pandemic, from experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicting their previous statements and recommending masks as the most important policy intervention against the spread of COVID, to the months afterward as many locations around the globe mandated masks in nearly all public settings. With easy-to-understand charts and visual aids, along with detailed, clear explanations of the dramatic shift in policy and expectations, Unmasked makes the data-driven case that masks might not have achieved the goals that Fauci and other public health experts created.

Are you ready to start living life authentically? Have you ever wondered what it means to be TRULY authentic in God? As women, being 'masked' is our "norm." We don one mask for home, another for work, and yet another for time with friends. In a world where masking is deemed normal, it is easy to get caught up in the world's agenda. It's time to unmask and know the meaning of being authentic in Christ. In "The Woman Behind the Mask," you will join 14 women as they take you on a transparent journey into their lives. Each story is authentic. Each speaks of pain to victory as they unmasked and learned who they truly are in Christ! This book will empower you as you realize your true identity. Be inspired to take charge of the process of being unmasked from anything in your life that is holding you back from walking in your God-given purpose. Unveil to the world exactly who God called you to be...NOW!

The title, Let My People Breathe!, is adapted from the Exodus when God sent Moses to Pharoah with His demand: "Let my people go!" When you read this book, you will understand the urgency that is reflected in the title. Let My People Breathe! examines science and Scripture to answer two questions regarding mask mandates: (1. Do masks work (what does the science say), and (2. Are mask mandates moral, do they violate personal liberties (what do the Scriptures say)? Dr. Scheidbach is known among his peers and his radio/podcast followers of the Brain Massage® show as a fastidious researcher of high integrity. In preparation for writing this book, he examined 964 scientific and technical studies searching for the answer to question No. 1 — do masks work? He discovered that while many late studies purport to support public masking to control the spread, not one provides scientific proof that surgical or cloth masks offer adequate protection against infection by something so small as a virus. Furthermore, he discovered our natural filtration provides far superior protection than the masks recommended by CDC, WHO, and Fauci. And disturbingly, he discovered masks can interfere with natural filtration and actually facilitate infection. He documents his research thoroughly in his book and provides his readers access to every article he examined, along with his extensive research notes (over 800 pages), in separate downloadable files. (Free to all who purchase Let My People Breathe!) On the second question, what does the Bible say about mask mandates, Dr. Scheidbach brings to his readers over 50 years of extensive biblical studies, including formal training culminating in an earned Doctorate in Theological Studies (graduating summa cum laude). He addresses questions about a Christian's responsibility to obey governments with biblical integrity and refreshing candor. He shows what the Bible actually says about the purpose and limits of government. His explanation of Romans 13 is worth the price of this book! In this section of Let My People Breathe!, Dr. Scheidbach reveals that the mask mandate issue has far-reaching political and spiritual implications. Let My People Breathe! could be one of the most important books you read this year!

The Masquerade: What Mask Are You Wearing? "The Unmasking of a Queen" is a guide to aid women toward emotional and spiritual wholeness. A study guide created to help one in making peace with her past and move beyond brokenness, the book tells how the author overcame by taking responsibility for her own emotional and spiritual health. It's about wanting to grow spiritually and rising above unresolved emotional issues. It's about developing emotional maturity. It is about how the author handled her emotions including her anger, un-forgiveness, rejection, bitterness, and resentment. How she learned to stop hitting the replay button to past hurts. Why she was compelled to tell her story. The book was written to help you to escape the ties that bind you.