What is your plan for the end of the world as we know it? How will you protect the people you love? What will you leave to them when you are gone? The good news is this is not the first time the world has ended. What's more, men were made for times like these. And the men of the past--the good ones, anyway--have left us a plan to follow. They built houses to last--houses that could weather a storm. This book contains their plan.

Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards—a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field—and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display. The Violated is no exception.In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body ...

Memoirs of a Legendary Pool Hustler: Stories from the Road by CJ Wiley offers readers an intriguing glimpse into the world of professional pool hustling through the eyes of one of its most celebrated figures. This memoir captures the essence of the hustle, dealing with strategies, high-stakes games, and colorful characters that populate the life of a pool shark.CJ Wiley, known for his game mastery and cunning ability to outwit opponents, shares the thrilling victories and lessons l...

Alcohol, drugs, sex before marriage, divorce, lies, and feelings of condemnation: all these are ingenious attacks on Christians by Satan. He is the master of stealing, killing, and destroying. If you suffer from falling victim to Satan’s traps, take heart! Michael R. Wiley is a normal person just like you, and he too has been fallen prey to many of these traps set by Satan. Through Michael’s life, the author of this book, he shows you how to change your life by changing your mind-set on wh...

This book offers alternatives to typical leadership, highlighting new ways of thinking about how individuals can lead effectively. Specifically, it integrates several fields, including neuroscience, behavioral economics, mindfulness, cognitive and social psychology, emotional intelligence, and management decision-making. The authors challenge the “common sense,” mainstream thinking about leadership, arguing that effective leadership depends on a more complicated understanding of the underl...

Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy in the environment, degradation of signals in transit, and spontaneous random activity in receivers and signalers. Whatever the cause, the consequence of noise is error by receivers, and these errors are the key to understanding how noise shape...

A new but timeless strategy and mindset that should greatly help investors lower downside risk while achieving market outperformanceIn The 52-Week Low Formula: A Contrarian Strategy that Lowers Risk, Beats the Market, and Overcomes Human Emotion, wealth manager Luke L. Wiley, CFP examines the principles behind selecting the outstanding companies and great investment opportunities that are being overlooked.Along the way, Wiley offers a melding of th...

From the author of Knight Dreams, after an army storms her castle, a medieval English Lady searches for help, only to be captured by a dashing knight.Sworn to protect the crown, a Knight of the Swan must never surrender—not even to love . . .England, 1415. Ordered never to leave the lonely tower on her family estate, Lady Clarice Margrave is suddenly set free when her home is plundered. Now she is determined to di...

A young man takes a solo trip camping only to meet a group of young women out on a trip of their own. But the women seem to have more planned than it at first seems, and he may just find he has a part to play himself. Erotic story with occult vibes.

A collection of ten new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and why scholars feel it necessary to reconsider one of the most critical turning points of the American Civil War.The first academic analysis that delineates all three Civil War campaigns foug...

This issue, we have 6 original stories, including top-drawer mysteries by Shannon Taft and Mark Thielman (thanks to Acquiring Editors Barb Goffman and Michael Bracken) and Michael Wiley, plus great science fiction from Alex Marchenko and Subodhana Wijeyeratne. Our novels are The India-Rubber Men, by Edgar Wallace, and Screamworld, by Edmund Glasby (this is the genre-defying Screamworld’s first American publication). We also have classic reprints by E.C. Tubb and ...

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon un...