The Last Poet onWall Streetby Michael GoodwinJames Alexander is hell-bent on success. But success at what? His prodigious intellect points to a bright future in academia with his poetess girlfriend, Sarah. But growing up on a hardscrabble farm in Tennessee has him hankering for wealth and status. His frat buddy, Lark, convinces him that in 1985 Wall Street is the quickest way to get there."The two start a hedge fund and get rich quick. James seeks to take ad...

A foremost contemporary theory of social change explained that shows us how the future must be built day by day.Rehearsing the Future explores the work and legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs, two of the most influential American radical thinkers of the twentieth century. Grace Lee Boggs earned a PhD in philosophy in the 1940s, though facing obstacles to an academic career as a young Chinese American woman, she left and became a political organizer in Detr...

Nanny and Hank are back—and their undead retirement is anything but restful! What began as an ordinary golden age for two loving grandparents has twisted into a nightmare of blood, betrayal, and impossible choices. When a deadly secret from Hank’s time in Vietnam resurfaces, the couple’s past collides with their cursed present. The Vampire Council, furious at their unsanctioned transformation, hunts them relentlessly, while unseen forces manipulate events from the shadows. As Ann struggles...

An explosive, inside account of the mysterious attacks on U.S. officials around the world via an unseen, highly specialized weapon that has left dozens of victims with life-altering injuries, and the U.S. government’s attempt to cover it up—with startling new evidence from an award-winning 60 Minutes teamFor nearly a decade, U.S. diplomats, spies, and soldiers around the world have reported sudden, devastating neurological injuries—symptoms eerily consiste...

This is a book about the stories that films tell about dementia and the varied ways it's depicted in films from around the world. Dementia is a progressive disease linked to ageing which ranks among the leading causes of death worldwide, for which the cause remains unknown and there is no cure. Drawing on its incidence in his own family, Michael Chanan explores how films represent the condition: what they show, how they show it, and what they don't show and steer away from. Set within medi...

'The Havana Syndrome is terrific - and terrifying. The authors have cut through the fog of secrets, screwups, and cover-ups to bring you this illuminating book. It will rob you of your sleep and send shivers up your spine.' TIM WEINER, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Mission and Legacy of AshesTHE TRUE STORY OF JOURNALISTS WHO UNCOVERED A NEW SECRET WEAPON THAT CAN STRIKE THROUGH WALLS WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE......

In the pine woods of East Texas, the cicadas come every thirteen years. They emerge from the ground where they have waited in the dark, and they climb the trees, and they split their skins, and they sing.Mark Branch is thirteen the first time he hears them. Thirteen when he meets Tim Foster, who becomes the closest thing to a brother he will ever have. Thirteen when Terry Sanders moves to Beulah with her dark hair and her quiet opinions about Hemingway and theology and the proper w...

A literary-historical study of one of the most recurrent motifs in French and Francophone literature – the arrival in Paris – focusing on how it has been employed to explore the idea of Paris as a site of liberation.For centuries, people have attached various dreams to Paris. It is the capital of light, love, intellectualism, fashion, gastronomy, and revolution. Paris is also associated with freedom – whether sexual, social, intellectual, individual, or political. ...

This book provides a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical science of mountains, showcasing the evocative and highly informative terrains of Ladakh. Readers are taken across the mountains and valleys of Zanskar, the Indus Valley, and Nubra, relating a story that took millions of years to tell. This story includes the geology and tectonics of the Himalayas alongside the creation of landscapes, the people that live within them, and the scientific understanding required for minds t...

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in an exclusive eBook containing three compelling short storiesIn SUICIDE RUN, the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to be much more sinister than it seems. In CIELO AZUL, Bosch is haunted by a long-ago closed case - the murder of a teenage girl who was never identified. As her killer sits on death row, Bosch tries one last time to get the answers he has sought for years. In ONE DOLLAR...

A tale of solidarity in the Colorado coal fields.A Spirit of Revolt examines the lives and histories of mine workers who were at the center of an understudied statewide strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World in Colorado from 1927 to 1928. The book explores the biographies and genealogies of union activists from southern Colorado, roughly half of whom were Spanish speakers. These miners' stories are contextualized within broader histories of colo...

In the early weeks of 2020, a small group of scientists recognized the growing danger of an emerging microbial threat. They quickly organized their colleagues into a collaborative team that met weekly, dedicated to innovating new approaches to combat COVID-19 as the pandemic unfolded. The resulting CrisiScience Collaborative would swell to hundreds of high-profile members, including Nobel laureate scientists, engineers, and business leaders—all of whom volunteered to anticipate and solve p...