It's About TimeTime-traveling thieves and assassins. Mysterious visitors from the past and future. Historical encounters that were never meant to be. Predestination paradoxes and miraculous machines. Journeys through the ages that take unpredictable twists and turns, sending the travelers—and the reader—where they least expect.Welcome to The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, featuring twelve short stories by an international group of speculative fictio...

Most books on Business Negotiations are dealing with the subject matters of mindset, persuasion, and brainstorming as methods to approach a negotiation. In contrast, Negotiations – Prepare to Win – an Analytical Approach provides a negotiation template – one that has a proven track record. This book starts with building a foundation for success and ends with how to implement a self-sustaining cost reduction system. In between, the book outlines comprehensive techniques on how to identify a...

Most Americans don't live at the extremes. So why does it feel like the extremes run everything?Something is wrong in American politics, and most of us feel it — at the dinner table, in our feeds, in the voting booth where we end up voting against someone rather than for anyone. We've been told there are only two sides, and that we have to pick one.We don't.The American Center is a clear-eyed and genuinely hopeful argument that the reasonable majority — the people w...

Most startup books are for founders. This one's for everyone else.Some people come out of startups broke and bitter. Others build careers they love, command higher salaries, and never job hunt again. Same environment. Completely different outcomes.The difference isn't talent. It isn't connections. It isn't luck.It's knowing what nobody teaches you.15+ years in startups. 100+ research citations from neuroscience and behavioral science. One fr...

Gregory S. Taylor’s Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison’s entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Taylor addresses numerous features of the state’s vast prison system, including chain gangs, convict leasing, executions, and the nearby Women’s Prison, to describe better the vagaries of living behind bars in the state’s largest penitentiary. He incorporates vital elements of the state...

She lost her badge. She won't lose another child.Cassandra Woodward was once Oakwood's first female detective-until one mistake cost her everything: her career, her partner's trust, and her self-respect. Now working as a lowly zoo security guard, she's drowning in regret... until the day a frantic father screams that his daughter has vanished in broad daylight.What looks like a panicked mistake quickly unravels into something far darker. A severed finger. A...

England’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writ...

The longest major poem by renowned English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tells of a wedding guest who is intercepted on his way to the ceremony by an old mariner. The mariner engages the guest with an incredible tale of a fateful sea journey, the story of which he is compelled to relate.

Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film aims to address films as spiritual experiences. This collection of s...

A dirty cop, a drugged-up back-up dancer, and an angsty adolescent god; the absolute worst dudes in the galaxy are on a raunch-filled hunt for a missing pop star.It's a hilarious, aggressively weird, willfully vulgar graphic novel detective story from noted reprobates Aubrey Sitterson (No One Left to Fight, The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling) and Tony Gregori (Deuce of Hearts, Karma Police). Collecting issues #1-5 of ...

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work. The comprehensive collection covers Plato's social and political thought, his metaphysics and epistemology, his ethical theory, and his attitude towards women. The essays, chosen for their clarity and ability to stimulate student discussion, are related to one another in...

This is a 15-book combo. These are the themes that you will find:Theme 1: Many people have wondered what bipolar disorder is or what the symptoms are. While starting out with these simple facts, this guide goes much deeper into the subject. It covers a wide range of subtopics that will help you understand the nature of the disorder better.Theme 2: When it comes to Borderline Personality Disorder, many people are left in the dark. They still have questions about what it is, ...