AN AMERICAN EPIDEMIC: The Invention of the Way of Killing The groundbreaking investigative book explaining why America leads the world in gun violence — and how we can still stop it.Why does the United States suffer gun violence deaths at a rate found only in the world's poorest, most unstable nations? An American Epidemic is the urgent, meticulously researched answer — a sweeping work of investigative journalism and narrative nonfiction that traces America's gun violence crisis ba...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WORLD'S GREATEST POWER STOPS BELIEVING IN ITSELF? From the marble halls of the Roman Senate to the corridors of Washington D.C., history has been whispering the same warning for two thousand years. The question is whether America is finally listening. Empire in Decline is the book that geopolitical analysts, history professors, and political insiders are calling the most urgent work of comparative history published in a generation. Drawing on the rise and fall of Rome...

The explosive, meticulously reported narrative about the secret war to control artificial intelligence — told through the people who built it, the people who tried to stop it, and the people who blew it all open. Before ChatGPT changed the world. Before the boardroom coup that shook Silicon Valley. Before governments realized they were already losing the most consequential technological race in human history — a small number of people knew exactly what was coming. They tried to warn us. Mo...

What if the fog hadn't come?On the night of August 29, 1776, a fog rolled into New York Harbor so thick and so perfectly timed that it defied explanation. Without it, George Washington's trapped army would have been captured or destroyed before the Declaration of Independence was six weeks old. The American Revolution would have ended not in triumph but in a British prison. The United States of America would never have existed.That fog was only the beginning.How Americ...

The Mental ToolboxYour mind isn't broken—it's just overloaded. Stress, anxiety, brain fog, and overthinking? They're signs your brain has been pushed too hard for too long. The Mental Toolbox is your practical stress management guide for getting back in control and building real mental resilience—without having to overhaul your entire life.Look, we're all dealing with too much these days. This book gives you actual solutions that work in the real world. It's written by some...

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...

The Journey introduces these key building blocks and principles to allow you to move forward on your individual Journey. It brings together theory and experience from elite sport, business, education and the military to give you an insight into usable strategies you need to get further than you can ever comprehend. The Journey gives you everything you need to keep moving forward and overcome the things that get in the way and is presented in an informative, personable and relaxed way using...

Finally! A book for the corporate newbie that sheds light on the strange and mysterious world of Corporate America…Often the difference between the hot-shot “brand builders” who rise to corporate success and the “brand burners” who crash and burn early in their careers is seldom about intelligence or even hard work. That would be too straightforward.Corporate survival and ultimate success are more often about who understands the Unwritten Rules of Corporate...

Why are financial prices so much more crisis-prone and unstable than real economy prices? Because they are doing different things. Unlike real economy prices, rooted in the real goods and services produced and exchanged, financial prices attempt to value future income flows from financial and capital assets. These valuations fluctuate erratically because expectations of the future fluctuate – and large liquid financial markets can amplify, rather than correct, these effects. The book build...

This book explores the role of expectations within the modern capitalist system. Through looking at how they are formed and develop, the impact of events that lead to a collapse in expectations, such as a major financial crisis, is examined to highlight the precarious and unstable nature of the economic system. With a particular focus on the UK and USA, it is also considered how public policy and institutions can shift the balance away from speculation and back towards enterprise.T...

Workshop Machining is a comprehensive textbook that explains the fundamental principles of manually operating machinery to form shapes in a variety of materials. It bridges the gap between people who have traditional toolmaking skills and those who have been trained in programming and operation of CNC machines in a focused production environment, rather than general machine shop.Using a subject-based approach, David Harrison intuitively guides readers and supplies practica...

Warning! May Contain Nuts!For Maude Appleby, award-winning cupcake maker and bakery owner, the tragic deaths of a sugar-crazed juvenile delinquent and his victim spells the end of her livelihood. The British government steps in to restrict the sale of sugar, closing the oven door on her baking business. In retaliation, Maude forms the Granny Cartel, an underground criminal enterprise that smuggles illegal confectionery to the masses. With the notorious Baker’s Dozen as her muscle, ...