The EV Guys: How Caltech Engineers Reinvented the Electric Car is the true account of the auto industry outsiders whose electric drivetrain revolutionized the automobile. Starting from their early years at Caltech, the book chronicles their development of an electric car faster than any Ferrari or Corvette. It then recounts how the founders of Tesla Motors stumbled onto their technology, adopted it, and used it as a foundation for the birth of what would become one of the world’s ...

Explores the decades-long erosion of the American Dream from the author's perspective: a working-class kid who became a celebrated economist dedicated to advancing the interests of struggling workers, while also caught in the same currents of job insecurity and downward mobility as the people he aimed to defend.Worker insecurity, increasing inequality, and downward mobility in our current era contrast sharply with expanding prosperity and opportunity in the first t...

Four psychiatric managed care companies take the next logical step in their obsession with cost containment and begin to secretly murder chronic mental patients, making it look like an accident or suicide. After Dr. James Corrigan and his wife are savagely attacked by a former patient, he joins the Death Panel and gets sucked into their vortex of evil. Everything begins to unravel when one of Dr. Corrigan’s friends is sentenced to death and he is unable to go to the police. Can he stop the...

This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest "infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations" ( History).In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire on Russian history and culture has been all but ignored. Only...

Updated annually,The World Today series: Canada 2026–2027 provides historical background on Canada to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this region.It covers the country's culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, ...

After accumulating an exhaustive amount of data during his years of deeply immersive global travel experiences, Charles J. Wolfe presents the sacred application of geometry and numerology as the divine map to humankind’s enlightenment process throughout the millennia. What feels at first like science fiction is actually science-fact backed up by over 700 documented sources as well as other forms of validation that draw upon his engineering and physics backgrounds.While exploring ma...

Born at sea aboard his father's hand-built sailboat and raised barefoot on her wood decks, Thomas Thor Tangvald's oceanic childhood was full of beauty and wonder-but was also scarred by horrific tragedies that left him an orphan. Cast ashore into regular contact with human society for the first time at age 15, this intellectually gifted and uniquely educated young man at first reveled in his new environment but ultimately was led by his trauma into spirals of addiction and broken relations...

Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Kartina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen’s “Long Gone Girls” and the deep-rooted family of Hardy Jones’ “Visitin’ Coremierville” to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt’s “Them Riders” and Shane K. Bernard’s “The Phrenologist,” the anthology represents a new interpretation of the ...

Detective Constable Tom Kessler has spent his career hunting drug dealers, liars, and violent men. But nothing prepares him for John Falstead, a ruthless crime boss who threatens Tom's wife and children after a surveillance job goes catastrophically wrong.When Tom realises he can't protect his family through the system, he turns to the last man anyone would expect: Pete Johnson, a sharp witted cocaine dealer with a talent for survival and a grudge of his own. Tom should arrest him....

Portland Police Detective Nicholas Black has cause for concern. He's investigating the suspicious death of a young woman whose body has just washed on shore in full scuba gear. Normally it would simply be a case of drowning, yet along with this particular body is a stolen Vincent van Gogh painting in a watertight tube. To further complicate matters, the phone number of Dr. Dulcinea ("Dulcie") Chambers is written on the dead woman's hand. As the new director of the Maine Museum of Art, Dulc...

"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of how the American conservative movement came to lose its values. How did a movement that was defined ...

Dr. Dulcinea Chamber's old boyfriend, the adventurous, fun-loving, and decidedly good-looking Brendan MacArthur, reappears with a unique gift for the Maine Museum of Art: a very old bottle of wine, one of several that he found in a shipwreck while scuba diving in Maine's cold Atlantic waters. With museum attendance low during a particularly brutal winter, Dulcie knows exactly what to do. The museum will host a wine tasting as a fundraiser featuring this old vintage. But when an icebreaker ...