Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society – treating all races equally under the law – many factors combine to build profound racial weighting into the legal ...

Every time you type a question into an artificial intelligence system, something specific happens: a field of boundless possibilities narrows, focuses, and collapses into a coherent answer. Your prompt did that. Without that formulated intention, the system would have remained pure potentiality.Quantum physics describes something strikingly similar at the heart of matter: before observation, particles exist as clouds of probability. It is the act of measuring—of interacting—that col...

THE 2026 AMERICAN LEGACY BOOK AWARDS FINALISTFIRST PLACE PUBLIC MEMOIR FOR THE BOOK FEST AWARDS 2025The Massillon Tigers, one of the most envied high school football teams in the nation from one of the most high school football rabid towns in the country, had gone fifty-three years without winning a state championship when they took the field against the Hoban Knights on the brisk night of November 30, 2023, a date no one in ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The New York Times bestseller and Guardian Book of the MonthKENSINGTON AVE, PHILADELPHIA:THE FIRST PLACE YOU GO FOR DRUGS OR SEX.THE LAST PLACE YOU WANT TO LOOK FOR YOUR SISTER.Mickey Fitzpatrick has been patrolling the 24th District for years. She knows most of the working women by name. She knows what desp...

All six books in The Brandon Hall series!Follow along with the adventures of Brandon Hall, as he escapes from being "the wrong man", into a private investigator. This series takes you on Hall's journey as he battles criminal masterminds, regular thugs, and stumbles into love. All six books are included in this collection.Including:The Wrong ManHard BargainDark DayLoose EndsThe Dead ClientThe Shakedown

Having trouble with starting his own business, and with some nudging from Charlotte, Hall gets roped into investigating the death of a college student. While Hall and Charlotte uncover the clues, there is still the question of a mysterious mastermind who’s behind it all.What seems like an open-and-shut case quickly turns into something more involving hitmen, an illegal prescription racket, and dead bodies piling up at an alarming rate.

Hall’s on his first official case after becoming a private investigator. It’s supposed to be a simple, and boring case. All he had to do was follow a cheating husband and take some pictures. But for him, things are never that simple. He quickly gets swept up in a murder case, which leads to the name of an out-of-town hitman.As Hall investigates and tries to find the elusive hitman, more bodies pile up, and the name of one man keeps entering the picture. A man named Ripper who’s beh...

Hall is lured into a trap, then rescued by an old acquaintance. That same acquaintance also helps Hall get his next job. It’s nothing but a simple blackmail case. Only in this case, there’s nothing simple about it.Is anybody actually who they appear to be? And have we seen the last of James Rankin? Or is he the mastermind behind the latest case, once again?

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Anesthesia Secrets, 7th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an ea...

Penetration testing is the attempt to professionally break in to an organisation's computer systems, with the goal of determining whether the systems are secure. This guide for business and IT managers, developed in collaboration with CREST, explains the process of penetration testing and the benefits it brings. The book provides essential insight and tips for setting up a penetration testing programme, maintaining it, and responding to the results of penetration tests.

You’ve done all the right things; good grades at school, a great university degree and graduate into an in-demand job.You are smart, accomplished and successful... At least by the definitions given to you by your teachers, professors, and parents.But you are starting to question if there might be a different definition to explore. Especially as motherhood, and dreams beyond work start to become a bigger part of your life.Success is starting to look different now. A ...

Hush now, dear reader—prepare to cry,This book was never meant to please.Here mothers fail, and babies die;Turn back if you're unready for unease.— Dakria, EditorEerie Lullaby is a dark horror anthology that dares to disturb and unsettle.Published by WATG Press, this collection gathers bold voices in contemporary horror fiction, psychological horror, and disturbing dark lit...