"How to Change Your Thinking & Change Your Life" is an anthology combining six key personal development works. It serves as a guide for mental strength, happiness, and goal achievement, offering diverse approaches to transformation.Anthony B. Knight's "Psychological Makeover 101" delves into reshaping self-limiting beliefs, overcoming trauma, and embracing responsibility, utilizing existential philosophy for psychological transformation.Mic...

Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in America have never been more contentious and divided than they are right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and the electorate, polarization and politi...

Escaping a death sentence on a starship, three refugees come across a stone city that has been mysteriously abandoned. With a torrential rainstorm fast approaching, they become aware of a horrific menace lurking in tunnels beneath the city streets.

The colonists on the remote planetary outpost of New Sedona are a contented lot. Their work is undemanding, and they have the companionship of alien creatures called shanti that shape-shift into the forms of their favorite imagined pets. However, the colony's serenity is shattered when new way station administrators arrive and assume dictatorial control. And in the surrounding wilderness, other aliens begin to assume the shapes of nightmarish monsters.

As invading aliens unleash monsters resembling mutated carnivores to devour all of human life on Earth, an extended family gathers together in a mansion on an isolated bluff for a last stand. To survive, they must fight together against ravenous beasts attacking from land and sea.A recently divorced woman joins a virtual community in search of social acceptance and companionship. After fashioning a new identity for herself, she sets off to explore the meticulously created landscape...

During the war, the infamous Gustav extorted a vast fortune from his prisoners, promising them freedom but then reneging and torturing them anyway. In the war's aftermath, Gustav's henchman Nickolas searches for a map to the treasure, leaving mutilated bodies in his wake. Where is the map? Can Gustav's surviving victims evade Nickolas, locate the treasure, and exact vengeance for Gustav's crimes?

In the near future, a couple seeks to evade societal confusion by joining a commune based upon sharing and solidarity. However, the once free-thinking members become oppressed by authoritarian leadership and investigating governmental agencies. As the escalating situation becomes increasingly restrictive and intolerable, the couple plans an escape.

Life is full of transitional experiences: relocations from one place to another and one job to another, setbacks due to accidents and injuries, the loss of family and friends, and the metamorphosis from youth to old age. This lively memoir takes you on a journey through transitions the author has experienced while traveling abroad for thirty-five years, seeking a place to call home in his native United States, raising five sons, and pursuing excellence in the art of writing. Besides tellin...

From the author's introduction:"For me, writing is metaphysical because it is inseparable from who I am and my conception of the universe and my place in it. My interpretation of writing goes far beyond the definitions of hobby, job, or career - it is rather in the nature of a calling. It is something that blossoms from within me and, though invisible to instrumentation, is as integrally a part of me as my flesh, bones, and internal organs. How this transpired and how it manifests ...

Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II.John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of more than fifty snipers, tracing their journeys from recruitment and selection through training, combat and its aftermath to reveal a surprising commonality of experience, even across nationalities.Laying bare the triumphs and brutalities of sniping, the personalities and psycholo...

A young woman in the frozen northlands rescues a centuries-old creature from a hunter's trap. After she learns to communicate with him, he tells her his amazing tale of shipwreck and survival.

While captive with his mother and sister and a trainload of other passengers traveling towards an ominous destination, a boy enters an interior fantasy that seems every bit as genuine as his present dire circumstances. Which is imagined and which is real? Can he help his family escape their fate by journeying with them into the alternate landscape of his dreams?