Some secrets stay hidden because we're afraid to look. Others stay hidden because they're waiting.In this collection from The Red Herrings Society, you'll find stories that reach into the dark corners we usually walk past. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a killer. A old woman can no longer hold back the ghosts that haunt her home. A property manager disappears, and the only one qualified to search for her is a vampire who doesn't want to get involved.The...

A sharp, funny examination of fame in the digital era and what makes our hunger for it equally alluring and embarrassing—from the podcasters behind Who? Weekly“Nothing short of a modern soliloquy on what it means to seek the gaze of the masses. Come for the laughs and incredible cultural deep cuts, stay for the exegesis on how we wound up . . . here.”—Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of FamesickWh...

Betrayal does not remain in the past. It changes how the brain reads danger, how the body responds to closeness, and whether a survivor can trust their own judgment again.Going Rogue is Laura Weber Garrison's direct, clinically grounded guide to understanding those changes and doing the work of recovery. Drawing from more than two decades of trauma treatment, personal experience, neuroscience, psychology, somatic therapy, narrative work, yoga, and neuroplasticity, Garrison explains...

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all.On the night of President Trump's second presidential victory, economist Isabella Weber tweeted: "Can we now finally have a serious conversation about an anti-fascist economics?" In her view, Democrats had missed the seriousness of the affordability crisis in the wake of pa...

What would it mean to create an economics that guarantees dignity for all?For decades, we were told that free markets would safeguard democracy. Instead, we are now living in an age of emergencies as the cost of living rises, democratic institutions weaken and the far right gains ground across the world. But it doesn't have to be this way. Drawing on history, political economy and her own experience at the centre of recent inflation debates, economist Isab...

Since the second half of the 19th century, live entertainment in the United States has been governed by monopolies and powerful business cartels. Through power and greed they controlled who could produce, book, and present live performance and legitimate theatre, affecting audiences in New York City and across North America.Far from being a historical problem, it took the botched rollout of the 2023 Taylor Swift Eras tour via Live Nation/Ticketmaster for people and...

The Human Ship is RudderlessPeople expend enormous energy pursuing day-to-day activities. With gusto we work, play, and live, but our societies make only very slow progress. Major problems like warfare, inequality, and environmental degradation continue to fester decade after decade, century after century. Why, despite our enormous collective capability, do our societies advance so slowly? In large part, I think it's because we lack direction. The human ship is rud...

The 4-volume set CCIS 3163–3166 constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology, SEMIT 2026, held in Ankara, Turkey, during September 16–18, 2026.The 114 full papers and 2 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 205 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Foundation Models, Machine Learning, and AI Architectures; Intelligen...

After the Water Wars split America into hostile territories, Cam, an orphan of "unknown origins" goes on the run, guided by memories of a blue door.Cam has lived in a series of foster placements that have become more dangerous the older she gets. She escapes, somehow drawn by a vision of a blue door that brings her to the home of Jim. A former rocker and activist, Jim has nothing much left except for his cats, his memories of his dead wife, and — it turns out — thr...

The Paramedic's Mental First Aid Kit DBT TIPP Skills for On-Scene Stress, Post-Call Stabilization, and Safer Trauma RecoveryThe tones drop. You read the address, scan the dispatch notes, check your partner's face, and move.Somewhere between the station door and the patient's side, your body has already made a series of decisions. Heart rate up. Attention narrowed. Muscles ready. Old calls flickering at the edge of awareness.You feel sharp. ...

Sleep When Your Brain Won't Stop: Using DBT's TIPP Skill for Physiological Calming and Mindfulness to Quiet a Racing Mind at BedtimeUsing DBT's TIPP Skill for Physiological Calming and Mindfulness to Quiet a Racing Mind at BedtimeAt 11:38 p.m., Mireya Sloane was tired enough to yawn through the last ten minutes of a television show. At 11:52, she brushed her teeth. Five minutes later, she turned out the light.She remembered an unfinished budget file. Then she rememb...

Reprocessing the Failed RescueAfterward, two clocks are running.The official one recorded everything: dispatch, arrival, decisions, handoffs, termination, documentation, review. It closed. It moved on.The private one is still going.It replays a few seconds that refuse to pass. A face. A radio call. A door that would not open. A wave. A monitor. A choice you made with information you didn't have.This workbook is built for that second ...