Hundreds of thousands of people apply for patents, copyrights, and trademarks in the United States every year. For example, the United States Patent and Trademark office recently reported that 452,633 patent applications were filed in one year. You can easily become one of these people if you have created the greatest American invention, if you are the next Stephen King and have written a book to prove it, or if you have designed an eye-catching logo for your company.The Complete G...

The Psalms: you’ve heard them read in church, adapted into worship songs and maybe glanced through them once or twice. But have you ever asked yourself what the message is behind this moving yet enigmatic book? Have you ever let the Psalms truly speak to you, or, to put it more accurately, let God speak to you through them? In Out of the Depths, singer and song-writer Rick Lee James invites you to do precisely that. Using a unique blend of personal stories, scholarship and pastoral insight...

In The Laws of Inheritance, the second thriller from Matthew Cole Levine, social commentary and body horror create a fiery blend tailor-made for an election year.Darren Trevor is only five days away from his twenty-fifth birthday when he feels that something is wrong. Something in his body. Something unnatural. The weird thing is, his father, Bryan Trevor, also died from a mysterious illness on the day he turned twenty-five. Could it have anything to do wi...

A thorough exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military’s best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire."A searing and unvarnished history." —Jeremy Scahill, New York Times author of Dirty WarsThe Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was cel...

In the desolate woods of northern Wisconsin, there is a cabin. Inside the cabin is a figure of evil, a witch performing an unknown ritual. There is also a young boy, Ryan Amherst, who is part of this strange ceremony: a pattern of sacrifice and resurrection known only to the residents of the tiny town of Grange.Nearby in the village, a man named Nathan Amherst - Ryan's father - meets with a middleman named John Linden. Nathan asks when his side of the "contract" will be fulfilled. ...

In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and popularity. The contributors to this collection are political and social theorists from a range of disciplines who use science fiction as inspiration for new theories and examples of speculative politics. In dystopian governments, they find locations and forms of resistance. Representations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction explores...

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children's culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as pets or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of ...

This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive, social constructionist, and political economic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: foundations, representation, and responsibility, outlining the different disciplinary appro...

How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee and other essential techniques for surviving the 9–5.A smart, spoof survival guide – to the 9–5. Ray Mears’ and Bruce Parry’s advice is all very well if you’re stuck up the Amazon without a paddle, but what about finding your way to a seat on a crowded bus, predicting the weather with a coffee in Starbucks or getting rid of cold callers with a microwave? Urban Bushcraft shows how to dust off your native survival instincts and update t...

A groundbreaking exposé of the secret conspiracy between Jared Kushner, the UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ), and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to fund a hidden policy agenda, influence the Trump White House, and reshape the Middle East—from the author of the “remarkable” (James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winner) Code Over Country.Two crown princes, MBZ and his junior partner MBS, have long wielded great power and unfathomable amounts of money to forge ...

What happens when you're a foreigner in a city that never sleeps, surrounded by beautiful women, endless nightlife, and a language you barely understand?Alex thought moving to Shanghai would be a fresh start. Instead, he discovers that living abroad comes with its own rules: dating apps, confusing customs, and women who know exactly what they want. Wei Wei, Lulu, and Mimi lead him through a city of neon lights, spicy food, and sizzling encounters that push his limits—and his stamin...

Beckett Halloran has kept every secret the ice ever asked of him. The new trade arrival he's been assigned to show around is the one man alive who already knows all of them. And the chemistry between them on the ice is the most dangerous thing Beckett has ever felt.Beckett Halloran has stood behind every net in the Eastern Conference and let nothing through that he didn't want through. Eight years as a professional, a reputation built on stillness and precision, an...