It's About TimeTime-traveling thieves and assassins. Mysterious visitors from the past and future. Historical encounters that were never meant to be. Predestination paradoxes and miraculous machines. Journeys through the ages that take unpredictable twists and turns, sending the travelers—and the reader—where they least expect.Welcome to The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, featuring twelve short stories by an international group of speculative fictio...

Time and Time AgainTime-traveling tourists and multiverse-hopping aliens. Ancient arts with a futuristic twist. Romantic risks lovers get to try more than once – if they're not afraid to pay the price. Temporal technologies that send travelers spinning into the realm of their wildest dreams, or the landscape of their worst nightmare.These and other stories await you in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, Vol. 2. Like its companion volume, this anthol...

Most books on Business Negotiations are dealing with the subject matters of mindset, persuasion, and brainstorming as methods to approach a negotiation. In contrast, Negotiations – Prepare to Win – an Analytical Approach provides a negotiation template – one that has a proven track record. This book starts with building a foundation for success and ends with how to implement a self-sustaining cost reduction system. In between, the book outlines comprehensive techniques on how to identify a...

Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed? The history of the digital transition is one of great scientific achievement, expensive failures, and significant political and industrial power struggles. In Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, Gregory Taylor examines the technology, institutional players, and the policies that have shaped Canada's efforts to switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting. Taylor shows how digi...

Most Americans don't live at the extremes. So why does it feel like the extremes run everything?Something is wrong in American politics, and most of us feel it — at the dinner table, in our feeds, in the voting booth where we end up voting against someone rather than for anyone. We've been told there are only two sides, and that we have to pick one.We don't.The American Center is a clear-eyed and genuinely hopeful argument that the reasonable majority — the people w...

You take care of your body. You've learned to care for your mind. But there's a third part of you that almost no one talks about anymore — and it may be the part that's most quietly starving.We are the most connected, most informed, most entertained people who have ever lived. So why do so many of us lie awake at two in the morning with the nagging sense that something is missing — something we can't quite name?More Than This is a book for the curious and the skept...

Most startup books are for founders. This one's for everyone else.Some people come out of startups broke and bitter. Others build careers they love, command higher salaries, and never job hunt again. Same environment. Completely different outcomes.The difference isn't talent. It isn't connections. It isn't luck.It's knowing what nobody teaches you.15+ years in startups. 100+ research citations from neuroscience and behavioral science. One fr...

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981). Using material from Pearson’s personal archive in Wilkes County, from the North Carolina Collection and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and from contemporary examinations of his life and work, this study offers deeply personal insights into his life and provides extensive examinations of his hopes, joys, fears, pains, and sorrows...

Gregory S. Taylor’s Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison’s entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Taylor addresses numerous features of the state’s vast prison system, including chain gangs, convict leasing, executions, and the nearby Women’s Prison, to describe better the vagaries of living behind bars in the state’s largest penitentiary. He incorporates vital elements of the state...

The storm is the least of her worries.When Emily Hoeffsteader flees her abusive ex-husband with her autistic seven-year-old son Charlie, their desperate escape ends in a nightmare: a midnight crash sends their car careening off a snow-slicked mountain road-and into the den of a mother grizzly and her cubs.Trapped in a mangled wreck, freezing and injured, Emily fights to stay conscious, haunted by guilt and the terrifying certainty that her violent ex will s...

She lost her badge. She won't lose another child.Cassandra Woodward was once Oakwood's first female detective-until one mistake cost her everything: her career, her partner's trust, and her self-respect. Now working as a lowly zoo security guard, she's drowning in regret... until the day a frantic father screams that his daughter has vanished in broad daylight.What looks like a panicked mistake quickly unravels into something far darker. A severed finger. A...

Paul Crouch (1903-1955) was a naïve, ill-educated recruit who found a family, a livelihood, and a larger romantic cause in the Communist Party. He spent more than fifteen years organizing American workers, meeting with Soviet leaders, and trying to infiltrate the U.S. military with Communist soldiers. As public perceptions of Communism shifted after WWII, Crouch’s economic failures, greed, and desire for fame morphed him into a vehement ideologue for the anti-Communist movement.Dur...