What if the demons we fight in our heads aren't just in our heads?When homeless veteran Marcus "Tank" Rodriguez starts seeing shadows that move wrong and feeling hunted by something that shouldn't exist, he assumes he's finally lost his mind to PTSD. But when other veterans living under Atlanta's bridges report identical supernatural experiences, Tank realizes they're facing an enemy no military manual prepared them for.The shadows followed them home from Iraq and Afghanist...

War leaves scars. Some you can see. Some you can't.Marcus Holloway made it through the last deployment—but he didn't come back the same.When a new threat emerges in the mountains of Afghanistan, Marcus and his team are thrust back into a conflict that is spiraling out of control. The enemy is smarter. The missions are deadlier. And every decision carries consequences that reach far beyond the battlefield.As the fighting intensifies, Marcus must navi...

Some wars are fought with bullets. Others are fought in the mind.Marcus Holloway has lived both.A seasoned Ranger medic with multiple deployments behind him, Marcus knows the reality of war—the chaos, the brotherhood, and the weight of decisions that never leave you. When he returns to Afghanistan for another tour, he steps back into a world where danger hides in every shadow and trust is a luxury no one can afford.In the mountains of the Hindu Kush...

The greatest battles are fought in silence — between your ears.How to Train Your Mind for Battle and Life is a powerful guide to building the same mental discipline, emotional control, and inner resilience that define the world's most effective warriors. Drawing from years of military leadership, real-world adversity, and hard-earned personal transformation, Donald Dunn delivers a field manual for mastering your mind in any environment — f...

Executive leaders need a framework with which to evaluate current and to create new corporate ethical management systems in their organizations. This book offers such a framework, called the Moldable Model©, a system of consistent components that give leaders a framework and a guide to build an organization-specific corporate ethical management system (CEMS). This book teaches how to design ethical workplaces utilizing the role modeling, context, and accountability components. In a step-by...

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron lawsOur species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life’s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiot...

ContentsTHE PROPHETIC PICTURESBy Nathaniel HawthorneTHE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOWBy Washington IrvingTHE GOLD-BUGBy Edgar Allan PoeCORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER(From "The Oak Openings")By J. Fenimore CooperUNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLYBy Bret HarteTHE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUXBy H. W. LongfellowTHE WIDOW'S CRUISEBy F. R. StocktonTHE COUNT AND THE WEDDING QUESTBy O. Henry...

The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its principles clarify or obscure the issues surrounding campus speech? What, after all, is the basis for those principles, and how do they relate to the purposes of the university? Is free speech trul...

There's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there are those who will use any means necessary to unlock the secrets of The Mystery Box.With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers. In Laura Lippman's "Waco 1982," a young reporter stuck with a seemingly mun...

Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals of today's society. How can we reach these kids with the truth of the gospel? More than fifty of America's youth experts give advice and encouragement to those who long to see this generation kno...

On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the country's strictest religious sect. But behind his quiet façade was a man involved with por...

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive. It turned out to be the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century, helping to further the abolitionist cause after publication in 1852. At the start of the American Civil War Abraham Lincoln met Stowe and is said to have declared "So this is the lit...