Meet some of the world’s most dastardly creatures, who lie, cheat, and deceive for a living.There’s the deadly praying mantis that looks like an innocent pink flower. The assassin bug that strums spider webs to lure in a tasty snack. The cuttlefish that changes color to hide its romantic intentions.To understand how these creatures swindle their way to survival, Liars, Cheats, and Copycats reveals the science behind camouflage, mimicry, and masquerade. Taking reade...

An absorbing and timely exploration of the French far right, from the Dreyfus affair to Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.This extraordinary history of the French far right, from its modern origins in the 1890s to its ebb and flow throughout the twentieth century, could not come at a timelier junction in European politics, when the hard right once again threatens to topple the pillars of democracy that have governed France since the end of World War II.I...

An absorbing and timely exploration of the French far right, from the Dreyfus affair to Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.The Dark Side of France provides us with a revelatory examination of rightward French politics across three centuries. Beginning with the aftermath of the humiliating Franco-Prussian War, the international journalist Enda O’Doherty boldly assesses some of the most notorious moments in modern French history, including the Dreyfus affa...

PROBABILITY IS A RIGGED GAME.Grant Sterling lives by the ledger. As a forensic auditor, he knows the world is governed by the cold laws of variance and the immutable balance of numbers. If the math balances, the system works.Lately, the macroeconomics of chance have developed a terrifying glitch.Behind the chaos of London's financial district, Grant begins to see the Golden Threads — a hidden architecture of manufactured coincidences. Luck isn't an ...

SPLATTER THE NORMALFor this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more extreme: the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.Join three Lifeti...

A high-stakes, dark academia fantasy perfect for fans of The Raven Cycle and Legendborn.Deja Freeman comes from a long line of witches, each one ushered into the magical Web by a woman before her—only she was never woven in. After her mother’s death, Deja’s aunt sought to protect her from the complications of magic. But when Deja enrolls at the prestigious Tanglewood Preparatory School, her mom’s alma mater, she finds herself walking the same peri...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS), as an interventive neurosurgical procedure, has now advanced beyond the treatment of movement disorders and now covers epilepsy, pain, and psychiatric disorders, too. Additionally, a better understanding of feedback-loop systems has led to the development of closed-loop devices such as the Medtronic Percept, which can measure electrophysiologic signals. Implementing these novel technologies will no doubt lead to further advances in our ability to help patients...

In a fantastical version of the United States filled to the brim with magic and dragons, the tween prince of Texas must compete in a notoriously dangerous scavenger hunt in Realmsweep by Stonewall Honoree H.E. Edgmon.Rowdy Buckner, the twelve-year-old prince of Texas, has a problem. More than anything, he wants access to the transfiguration tonics that will transform him from head to toe into the prince he is, in a body that feels more his own. His parents...

From "permanent teenager" H.L. Crowe comes the 2000s comedy-slasher you didn't know you needed, PROM QUEEN.18-year-old Evelyn Rose is a scene emo girl with a system: survive senior year at Big Pine High, clock her shifts at Spencer's, blast Michael Jackson on the record player when the grief of losing her dad gets too loud, and let her stepdad Ryan keep trying — even if she's not quite there yet. It isn't a perfect life, but with her boyfriend ska...

A doctor uses music to raise his patients' spirits, while struggling with faith and love, in this novel set during America's worst tuberculosis epidemic.In the wake of the Great War and the Spanish flu pandemic, a tuberculosis outbreak ravaged Kentucky's Jefferson County. Those suffering from the incurable disease were sent to the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanitorium on the outskirts of Louisville. Some patients endured intrusive surgical proced...

A perfect Christmas gift for the whole family, Once Upon a Stolen Sleigh is a snow-capped, present-filled choose-your-own Christmas adventure from the inimitable O'Hara sisters. You, the reader, are in charge of this tale!It's a magical time in Lapland. Bells are ringing, moose are carolling and pies are mincing. But things are not as merry as they seem. While the elves are packing Santa's sleigh, the Thief King is plotting to steal it all!Only one...

THE PEACH by Melissa H. CroninA peach. A summer morning. An ordinary moment that would divide a life into before and after.In July 2003, Melissa Cronin arrived at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market expecting nothing more than another day among the familiar rhythms of work, family, and possibility. Moments later, tragedy struck without warning, leaving death, devastation, and a path of recovery that would unfold over years rather than weeks.But The Peach is no...