Carranza’s Victory recounts the processes by which state governments loyal to President Venustiano Carranza worked to defeat his rivals and consolidate the carrancista regime during the Mexican Revolution. Combining seventeen studies of state governments with larger considerations of national politics, Douglas W. Richmond establishes why Carranza’s forces triumphed over his more widely lauded villista and zapatista rivals. Drawn from decades of research ...

Empathy is your new leadership edge. Grounded in neuroscience and real-world stories, Empathy Leadership teaches leaders how to navigate conflict, build trust, and lead with clarity and confidence.In today’s workplace, empathy isn’t a soft skill—it’s the competitive edge that distinguishes great leaders and thriving organizations. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and real-world narratives, Douglas E. Noll reveals how calm authority, emotional intelli...

Douglas Burnet Smith’s poems transform echoes of history and myth into moments of insight, bringing the ancient and contemporary worlds of Greece into vivid, often surreal collisionIn Ghost Oracle,a Santorini “dream reader” slices open the poet’s palm with a thorn and analyzes the blood pattern; Athenian subways rattle under the Acropolis as protesters are teargassed in the streets; hooded specters rise out of a blaze of poppies at a café beside a 3,000 ye...

“I’m coming for you. You will never escape me...”Book #1 in series: She’s the most dangerous person in the prison hospital for the criminally insane...and she’s broken free. When Trey Campbell takes his family to Catalina Island, his patient – sociopathic killer Agnes Hatcher – breaks out, leaving a trail of bodies behind as she hunts for her one true love...from a previous life. A gripping psychological thriller full of page-turning suspense and mind-bendi...

Freshly updated to its third edition with over 100 color images, tables, and figures, this practical and portable handbook is an essential resource for anyone new to gastroenterology and hepatology. Written in a friendly, conversational style, it covers the latest advancements in the field while providing a comprehensive guide to gastrointestinal anatomy, physiology, diseases, and treatments. Dr. Douglas G. Adler takes readers through the entire GI tract, from the esophagus to the colon, w...

This compassionate guide helps parents examine and transform their approach to raising LGBTQ+ youth through thoughtful explorations of personal values, societal expectations, and the power of loving support.Using the authors’ LOVE framework (Looking at Our Values and Expectations), this engaging workbook helps parents understand their vital role in their LGBTQ+ child’s identity development and well-being. Drawing on extensive clinical work, research, and personal experience, it off...

Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.And on and on and on.Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.Those c...

The year 1939 produced such outstanding film classics as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights. No less critically acclaimed that year was The Women. A largely forgotten masterpiece*, The Women* is a glamorous but stinging satire about women forced by society to be defined by men. Jungle Red! The Making of MGM’s The Women restores this classic to its rightful place in Hollywood history, and its lasting legacy as a template for later...

The book was fiction. The pain was real. The consequences are deadly.Professor Karla Dobbs has everything: literary acclaim, a bestselling novel, and a film adaptation on the horizon. Until a former student accuses her of plagiarism.Natalie Silva claims that the novel in question is based on a real tragedy and insists that the film be stopped, or there will be consequences. Certain that she has done nothing wrong, Karla dismisses her. At first.But a...

A behind-the-scenes perspective on Philadelphia Eagles history from sports radio personality and former player Hugh Douglas As a former All-Pro defenseman, Hugh Douglas knows what it means to live and breathe Eagles football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Eagles, Douglas opens up about his life and career in Philadelphia and provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can. Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall a...

‘A truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. It is a masterpiece of research, structure and writing . . . unforgettable’ Sir Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad**In 1938, Vienna was the second largest Jewish city in Europe, home to nearly 200,000 Jewish people.By 1946, only a few thousand had survived.**In this heart-wrenching story of loss, fear, courage and hope, acclaimed historian Douglas Smith chronicles...

**Two rivals from opposing families fight their forbidden attraction to each other in the brand new, dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.PRE-ORDER this rivals-to-lovers romance now.**--Summertime is quiet in southern Florida. In the humidity, the streets are empty, and the nights are still — perfect for a little mischief while the police aren’t looking.One of five brothers, Dallas Jaeger grew up proud of his communit...