The Future of Digital Well-Being explores how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are reshaping human flourishing and the meaning of the good life, with insights from philosophy, ethics, psychology, and communication science.Interest in digital well-being has increased in recent years as researchers from many disciplines have acknowledged the power of emerging technologies to dramatically affect our lives. Studying digital well-being requires us to engage with...

Drawing from over 100 interviews with world-renowned creativity researchers, scholars, practitioners, and educators, this groundbreaking book provides a powerful roadmap for preparing your students for tomorrow’s challenges by nurturing creativity in today’s classrooms.Grounded in research and shaped by real-world application, this book bridges the science of creativity and the art of teaching. You will begin your journey with a crash course in creativity as a scientific field of s...

The wilder-than-fiction true story behind the sensational bank heist immortalized in the 1975 film Dog Day AfternoonOn the hottest day of 1972, John Wojtowicz and a teenage accomplice strode into a Brooklyn bank, guns drawn, and demanded the contents of the vault. The cops showed up before the two could escape. Over the next 14-hours, an unexpected drama played out in real time. Wojtowicz took the lead, making demands of the cops and unashamedly declaring ...

This expanded junior novelization retells the thrilling fifth and final season of Netflix’s iconic series Stranger Things—and includes 8 pages of full-color images from the show!It’s the fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But the villain has vanished—his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating the mission, the government has placed the town under military quaran...

The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink chronicles the rise of the press through the Civil War and how its coverage of Gettysburg not only misled the people of two warring factions but also misshaped the battle’s meaning for generations to come. As Matthew J. Larson reveals, newsmen on both sides transformed the battle into what they needed it to be rather than what it truly was. While the Northern press elevated Gettysburg into Amer...

Transgender Philosophy: The Basics is an introduction to the exciting and rapidly growing world of trans philosophy.The book covers a wide range of central themes in transgender philosophy, bringing the reader up to speed with both foundational texts and new ideas from this increasingly global tradition. It addresses key questions, including:• What is gender? How is it related to gender identity?• Why are we justified in believing someone when they identify ...

Seventeen-year-old Olivia Brown is abducted on her way home from a night out and wakes up to find herself imprisoned by a vampiric race in a dark city bathed in eternal night. Hernando, a handsome half-human slave, reveals what is intended for her-they want her blood for the upcoming festival. Together they escape, and find friends and allies in unexpected places.Joining a resistance cell, they help plot a revolution and fall in love. Their group plans to take control of the Portal...

Fire on the Sands Book 1: A night out turns to terror when Olivia Brown is abducted by an alien vampiric race. She finds herself held captive on BloodDark, a world light years from Earth, but all is not lost. Olivia finds allies and even love in the most unexpected places. Can she and her friends escape the Pure Bloods’ city and find safety?Olivia’s Escape Book 2: Olivia returns to Earth, then travels to BloodDark, prepared to sacrifice herself to make both worlds safe from those wh...

U.S. flag officers are intended to be exemplary defenders of duty, honor, and country—but what can we learn by exposing the bad leaders lurking within these venerable ranks?There is an ugly strain of criminal and unethical leadership in the upper ranks of the American military. Despite the exemplary service of most American military members, a persistent minority of U.S. flag officers (Navy admirals and Army, Air Force, and Marine generals) have embroiled the profe...

Alice was a naive young nurse who made an extraordinary choice to join the Army to aid in the war effort during World War II. After completing military training, she signed up for deployment to go overseas with the 45th Evacuation Hospital. For seven months, Alice and the 45th evac prepared and practiced in England for treating front line casualties. Tensions were high for medical personnel and civilians alike, waiting for the invasion to begin. Then on June 6, 1944, after Alice had gone t...

The curse never died. It waited.He wasn’t bitten by chance. He was chosen.1994, Geneva, New York. A bite in the dark changes everything.When college freshman Joseph Hill is attacked by a cursed mosquito carrying the wicked blood of Moskito—a demon born from the buried sins of the Finger Lakes—his life begins to unravel.Nightmares bleed into daylight. Visions strike during his Native Studies class, revealing a violent history...

This fascinating biography of the late Colin Powell brings to light his towering achievements and errors in judgment during a lifetime devoted to public service.Until he passed away in 2021, Colin Powell was revered as one of America’s most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell’s decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the high...