Everyone thinks Nora Reed is trying to steal the identity of Lena Vale, the world's most beloved AI influencer. The truth is the other way around.Lena has Nora's face, her voice, her childhood memories, and the private gestures no camera should have captured. She also has twenty-eight million followers, a luxury life, and the trust of people who have never heard of Nora.When Nora confronts Eli Mercer - the former lover who built the technology from her most intimate data - ...

What does a market price really tell you—and what does it leave out?Most books about financial markets begin with what to buy, when to enter, or how much money can be made. Beyond Price begins with more fundamental questions: What are you actually buying? How is a price formed? Where does risk come from? And how can decisions remain coherent when the future is uncertain?Across 47 chapters, Paul-Adrian Rotaru builds a structured map of the financial...

What does a good prison look like? Over eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works?Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years’ experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he as...

Wild Cards now in development for TV! Dead Man's Hand combines the writing talents of George R. R. Martin & John Jos. MillerChrysalis, the glass-skinned queen of the Joker underworld, has been found brutally murdered in her popular restaurant, the Crystal Palace. Now two men are out to find her killer: Jay Ackroyd, the Ace private investigator who discovered her ruined body, and the vigilante archer known as the Yeoman, who has been framed for the...

What does a good prison look like? Over eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works?Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years’ experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he as...

The action-packed alternate fantasy returns for a new generation, featuring fiction from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Michael Cassutt, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lewis Shiner, and more―plus two completely new stories from Kevin Andrew Murphy and bestselling author Carrie Vaughn.Forty years after the Wild Card Virus's release, the World Health Organization decides it's time to take a delegation of Aces, Jokers, politicians, and journalists on a fact-...