The 21st Century Millian Manifesto is a comparative political treatise proposing a modernized, meritocratic electoral framework designed to break hyper-partisan deadlock in Western democracies. Synthesizing John Stuart Mill’s classical liberal philosophy with contemporary 21st-century geopolitical analysis, the manifesto critiques the structural deficiencies of both the Chinese party-state and the US duopoly, offering an actionable blueprint to revitalize modern civil society through insti...

Harry Farley believed love could hold a family together through anything. As a husband, father, and grandfather, he built his life on faith and commitment. But when addiction struck his family, it challenged everything he thought he knew about strength, hope, and control.First came the devastating loss of his son—a tragedy that left Harry with grief and questions no parent should face. Years later, the same darkness threatened his granddaughter, Brianna. What began as warning signs...

“Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat.”This is a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings–both historic and current–on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism, and the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marx theory to understand, find points of departure from, and “finally end capitalism before it ends us...

You think you know how escape stories work. Someone plans it. Something goes wrong. They either get out or they don't. But The Plan isn't interested in whether escape is possible—it's interested in whether escape ever mattered at all.Claire Hartwell stages her own kidnapping on a Tuesday in September. She turns herself in at Pike Place Market in a cream-colored dress, confesses to a crime she carefully constructed, and disappears into federal prison. It's meant to ...

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, clear, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike more theory-heavy texts, this book focuses on how strategy works in everyday practice, taking readers’ expectations and understanding beyond that of strategy as a matter of planning only. It enables the reader to learn and reflect upon their practical skills and knowledge and critically evaluate the strategy process and their own strategic decision-making.The book is ...

Pioneers in Canada opens with a sweeping account of exploration, conquest, and settlement in North America, told through the daring, flawed, and often tragic lives of the men and women who helped shape the British Empire. Moving from ancient human migrations out of Asia to the first Norse voyages across the North Atlantic, the book traces the peopling of the Americas, the settlement of Iceland and Greenland, and the brief, dramatic Norse reach into Vinland before their colonies collapsed. ...

Pioneers in Australasia is a sweeping history of exploration, discovery, and empire in the southern seas, from Borneo and New Guinea to Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Pacific. It traces the first European encounters with unfamiliar peoples, lands, and creatures, showing how fragile ships, uncertain maps, hunger, disease, storms, imprisonment, and death shaped the making of colonial power. Alongside the drama of adventure, the book insists on honesty about both courage and wrongdoing...

This is an adult erotic novel — a first-person memoir-style story narrated by a retiring Sydney dominatrix looking back on her 31-year career as she prepares to sell her dungeon/house and reflects on notable clients (with pseudonyms like "the Admiral," "Mr. Foster," "the Contractor") and a long, complicated relationship with a recurring client named Dean. It blends explicit erotic/BDSM content with a reflective, character-driven tone about shame, desire, and permission, and sets up a prese...

H. H. Johnston's account of the Kilima-njaro Expedition opens as both travel narrative and scientific inquiry, carrying the reader into eastern equatorial Africa with a scholar's eye and an explorer's urgency. Dedicated to Sir John Kirk and written with a phonetic system for African names, the work is designed to guide readers through a journey that moves from the coast inland to Taita, Mombasa, and at last Kilima-njaro, while also promising chapters on climate, geology, zoology, anthropol...

Have you ever had a dream so vivid it felt real? Maybe it was real. Maybe you are a dreamshifter.Jessica Kayne is an ordinary girl who works in an ordinary London cafe. But when she sleeps, extraordinary things happen. Because Jessica has an incredible power, not that she knows it…yet.When Jessica dreams up a perfect man, who turns out to be real – and recently murdered – her life takes a very unexpected turn. Her dreams become more vibrant and more deadly,...

“Meet Amy. Should she live, or should she die? Her fate is in your hands! Vote now…”Reclusive website designer Thaddeus Webb thinks he knows the internet, but a brief excursion into its shadier regions throws up more than he bargained for. He stumbles across a harrowing video of a captive girl, her destiny to be decided by paying voters.When it becomes clear the authorities aren’t taking the plight of the victim seriously, Thad knows he can’t stand...

Diana Jones was supposed to have escaped. Eight years of clean life, philanthropic work, the performance of redemption—and then a Polarograph arrives from Brooklyn showing Michael Dare, the son of a man she's never met, with a single question: Do you know what my father built?What Thomas Dare built was an organization designed to collapse institutions. What he planned was for his son to fall in love with the woman who'd killed Sergei Vetrov in Prague. What he activated was...