Carranza’s Victory recounts the processes by which state governments loyal to President Venustiano Carranza worked to defeat his rivals and consolidate the carrancista regime during the Mexican Revolution. Combining seventeen studies of state governments with larger considerations of national politics, Douglas W. Richmond establishes why Carranza’s forces triumphed over his more widely lauded villista and zapatista rivals. Drawn from decades of research ...

Douglas Burnet Smith’s poems transform echoes of history and myth into moments of insight, bringing the ancient and contemporary worlds of Greece into vivid, often surreal collisionIn Ghost Oracle,a Santorini “dream reader” slices open the poet’s palm with a thorn and analyzes the blood pattern; Athenian subways rattle under the Acropolis as protesters are teargassed in the streets; hooded specters rise out of a blaze of poppies at a café beside a 3,000 ye...

“I’m coming for you. You will never escape me...”Book #1 in series: She’s the most dangerous person in the prison hospital for the criminally insane...and she’s broken free. When Trey Campbell takes his family to Catalina Island, his patient – sociopathic killer Agnes Hatcher – breaks out, leaving a trail of bodies behind as she hunts for her one true love...from a previous life. A gripping psychological thriller full of page-turning suspense and mind-bendi...

Freshly updated to its third edition with over 100 color images, tables, and figures, this practical and portable handbook is an essential resource for anyone new to gastroenterology and hepatology. Written in a friendly, conversational style, it covers the latest advancements in the field while providing a comprehensive guide to gastrointestinal anatomy, physiology, diseases, and treatments. Dr. Douglas G. Adler takes readers through the entire GI tract, from the esophagus to the colon, w...

Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.And on and on and on.Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.Those c...

This compassionate guide helps parents examine and transform their approach to raising LGBTQ+ youth through thoughtful explorations of personal values, societal expectations, and the power of loving support.Using the authors’ LOVE framework (Looking at Our Values and Expectations), this engaging workbook helps parents understand their vital role in their LGBTQ+ child’s identity development and well-being. Drawing on extensive clinical work, research, and personal experience, it off...

Called Fallen Ones, winged jackals, and night devils, they are a tribe of vampires long-believed extinct. Until now..Book #1 in Series: In this medieval dark fantasy epic, Aleric the Falconer, torn by war from his beloved, falls prey to Pythia, the savage mistress whose embrace means death.“If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you’ll love The Vampyricon."* Get the trilogy: The Lady of Serpents (#2), and T...

The book was fiction. The pain was real. The consequences are deadly.Professor Karla Dobbs has everything: literary acclaim, a bestselling novel, and a film adaptation on the horizon. Until a former student accuses her of plagiarism.Natalie Silva claims that the novel in question is based on a real tragedy and insists that the film be stopped, or there will be consequences. Certain that she has done nothing wrong, Karla dismisses her. At first.But a...

A behind-the-scenes perspective on Philadelphia Eagles history from sports radio personality and former player Hugh Douglas As a former All-Pro defenseman, Hugh Douglas knows what it means to live and breathe Eagles football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Eagles, Douglas opens up about his life and career in Philadelphia and provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can. Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall a...

What are the neural circuits that underpin behavior, both in psychiatric illness and in health? Can we understand what is going on in the brain of a person suffering depression, or who has an anxiety disorder, or is addicted to drugs? And what of our fundamental functions and survival drives: what are the connections between neurons that enable us to form, store, and retrieve memories, to feel empathy, to act as parents to our children? In the early years of the twenty-first century, a new...

A young squirrel who has big dreams of helping his family find a new home finds a big acorn instead, in this humorous and clever picture book by Caldecott Honoree Jason Griffin. Perfect for fans of THE LEAF THIEF and MEL FELL.There’s a hole in the ground where the squirrel family tree used to be, and so they set out on a hunt to find a new home.Choko Choko, the smallest squirrel, is determined to help… but he’s told he’s too little to join. “Too LIT...

Kate Douglas captivated the world of erotic romance with her groundbreaking Wolf Tales series and today she continues to push boundaries with the Demon Lover series.“. . . Kate Douglas provides a Mercury-hot paranormal erotic romance that will burn the readers’ fingers (and a few other spots).”—Harriet Klausner about Wolf TalesAddie Logan simply stopped to do the right thing. While helping an injured woman in the park, she becomes the victim of a vicious attack and b...