The untold story of John Madden’s astonishing second act—and how the coach, broadcaster, and video-game icon transformed the NFL while confronting the damage football could do.John Madden retired abruptly from coaching in 1979, five months after receiver Darryl Stingley suffered a paralyzing injury against his Raiders. The tragedy would never leave him. He had no intention of entering broadcasting. Yet, within a decade—BAM!—he had become the most recognizable voice...

The AI-Ready Law Firm: How Lawyers User Generative Tools to Work Smarter and Serve Clients Better shows lawyers how to turn generative AI into a safe, strategic advantage across research, drafting, client service, and firm operations. It delivers practical prompts, workflows, and ethical guardrails that help legal professionals work smarter and lead in an AI-driven profession.

The Sad Book is a funny and heartfelt picture book that gives sadness a voice—and helps children see that sad feelings don’t last forever.Everyone feels sad sometimes—even this book! The Sad Book speaks directly to the reader, at first moody and uncooperative, then slowly opening up about its feelings.With humor, honesty, and gentle vulnerability, the book itself becomes the main character, guiding children to recognize sa...

SUPERSTAR CREATORS PRESENT UNFORGETTABLE ALL-NEW COBRA SILENT MISSIONS The face of comic books changed forever when G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #21 introduced fans to the "Silent Interlude," an action-packed story with NO DIALOGUE. Now, it's time for the villains of COBRA to take the spotlight! Join Baroness, Firefly, Zartan, Copperhead, and the Crimson Guard for ALL-NEW standalone silent issues taking readers on deadly missions across the world. Collects G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO:...

“Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing. He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first-class cultural historian. He is humane, witty, bright-minded, and rigorously intelligent. His deep subject is Time: how we deal with it and how it deals with us.” —Guy Davenport, poet, translator, critic, and author of The Death of Picasso and The Geography o...

Integrating intersectional criminology with organizational theory, Forgotten Law Enforcement examines how identity, power, and institutional design shape correctional staff experiences.Drawing on in-depth interviews with correctional staff at Rikers Island, one of the nation's largest jail complexes, Dr. Simone Martin-Howard centers the lived experiences of Black and Caribbean men and women working inside the jail system. Amid ongoing challenges in recruiti...

When a veteran investigative reporter is found dead in an ice-coated parking garage, the only way to prove it was murder is to read the weather.Cleveland's chief meteorologist Brooke Wilde knows the December derecho's minute-by-minute temperature drop better than anyone — she broadcast it live. So when FBI Special Agent Ryan Wilde, her estranged husband, asks her to decode the dead man's weather-timestamped surveillance photos, Brooke realizes the flash fr...

Howard Back's charming guide to the rich waters in and near Yellowstone National Park has been revered as a classic for sixty-five years. It is not only one of the most readable and entertaining fly-fishing memoirs but a practical handbook that is still wise and useful. In one of the first books to bring the many rivers of Yellowstone to the attention of the fishing public, Back gives accurate descriptions of all the best streams and lakes in the area and invaluable information about where...

Almost from humanity's very beginning, beloved small dogs have been trotting devotedly by our sides. Yap! follows in the pawprints of the breeds we have grown to love and cherish, from the small dogs touchingly memorialised in Ancient Rome through to Paris Hilton's chihuahua and the pet influencers of 21st-century, via the pug who colonised Napoleon's marital bed, King Charles II's spaniels and celebrity terriers in Victorian pubs.Drawing on her own experience as a pug-own...

Yap! A Short History of Small Dogs, by animal historian and dog-lover Stephanie Howard-Smith, tells the story of our first true pets. From the convents of medieval Europe, where nuns hid small dogs to be their faithful companions (despite the disapproval of male church leaders!), to King Charles’s spaniels, Queen Victoria’s Pekingese, Paris Hilton’s Chihuahua and the pet influencers of 21st-century social media, Yap! follows the pawprints of the breeds we have grown to love and cherish, re...

Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes region as an ontological and epistemological project shaped by—and resistant to—Euroce...

Kull, a barbarian from Atlantis, has conquered the land of Valusia and now rules over it as king. Little does he know that an ancient race of serpent people are using magic to replace humans with serpent men, and now seek to seize his kingdom. Can Kull battle the serpent people invasion? And if he does, how can he tell ally from foe? Can the power of the sword defeat the evils of sorcery?