What happens when therapy itself becomes the target?Dr. Laura Fontaine has spent decades helping others make sense of their lives-until a flood of vicious online reviews threatens to destroy her practice. Her longtime friend and fellow therapist, Theo Lincoln, faces his own backlash in academia for refusing to conform to the latest ideological trends.As the two navigate a profession increasingly shaped by social media outrage and political pressure, they're drawn into the u...

The Last Poet onWall Streetby Michael GoodwinJames Alexander is hell-bent on success. But success at what? His prodigious intellect points to a bright future in academia with his poetess girlfriend, Sarah. But growing up on a hardscrabble farm in Tennessee has him hankering for wealth and status. His frat buddy, Lark, convinces him that in 1985 Wall Street is the quickest way to get there."The two start a hedge fund and get rich quick. James seeks to take ad...

A foremost contemporary theory of social change explained that shows us how the future must be built day by day.Rehearsing the Future explores the work and legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs, two of the most influential American radical thinkers of the twentieth century. Grace Lee Boggs earned a PhD in philosophy in the 1940s, though facing obstacles to an academic career as a young Chinese American woman, she left and became a political organizer in Detr...

Why do some people and communities consistently innovate, adapt, and thrive while others stagnate?In The Creator's Code, Michael L. Wise uncovers the timeless principles behind humanity's most enduring creative achievements. Drawing from Jewish tradition and modern examples in science, business, and culture, Wise reveals eleven transformative habits that turn ordinary effort into extraordinary impact: questioning, collaboration, joy, resilience, and purpose.

Nanny and Hank are back—and their undead retirement is anything but restful! What began as an ordinary golden age for two loving grandparents has twisted into a nightmare of blood, betrayal, and impossible choices. When a deadly secret from Hank’s time in Vietnam resurfaces, the couple’s past collides with their cursed present. The Vampire Council, furious at their unsanctioned transformation, hunts them relentlessly, while unseen forces manipulate events from the shadows. As Ann struggles...

An explosive, inside account of the mysterious attacks on U.S. officials around the world via an unseen, highly specialized weapon that has left dozens of victims with life-altering injuries, and the U.S. government’s attempt to cover it up—with startling new evidence from an award-winning 60 Minutes teamFor nearly a decade, U.S. diplomats, spies, and soldiers around the world have reported sudden, devastating neurological injuries—symptoms eerily consiste...

The Temple KeepThe Most Terrifying Secret in Human History Has been Hiding in Plain Sight for More Than Three Centuries. Until Now.In the fall of 2000, Noah Greaves arrives at the College of William & Mary in Virginia on a scholarship, carrying little more than a gift for mathematics, and a determination to escape the limits of small-town life. The mysterious Christopher Wren Building, the oldest college building in America, with i...

Fully revised and updated in its second edition, Events and Sustainability provides a comprehensive introduction to a full range of issues and topics relevant to event sustainability.Topics covered across the book’s insightful and extensive chapters include impacts, operating and policy environments, stimulating urban regeneration and creating lasting legacies, as well as practical knowledge on how to plan and achieve a sustainable event. The volume takes an holistic appro...

This book provides a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical science of mountains, showcasing the evocative and highly informative terrains of Ladakh. Readers are taken across the mountains and valleys of Zanskar, the Indus Valley, and Nubra, relating a story that took millions of years to tell. This story includes the geology and tectonics of the Himalayas alongside the creation of landscapes, the people that live within them, and the scientific understanding required for minds t...

This is a book about the stories that films tell about dementia and the varied ways it's depicted in films from around the world. Dementia is a progressive disease linked to ageing which ranks among the leading causes of death worldwide, for which the cause remains unknown and there is no cure. Drawing on its incidence in his own family, Michael Chanan explores how films represent the condition: what they show, how they show it, and what they don't show and steer away from. Set within medi...

In the pine woods of East Texas, the cicadas come every thirteen years. They emerge from the ground where they have waited in the dark, and they climb the trees, and they split their skins, and they sing.Mark Branch is thirteen the first time he hears them. Thirteen when he meets Tim Foster, who becomes the closest thing to a brother he will ever have. Thirteen when Terry Sanders moves to Beulah with her dark hair and her quiet opinions about Hemingway and theology and the proper w...

A literary-historical study of one of the most recurrent motifs in French and Francophone literature – the arrival in Paris – focusing on how it has been employed to explore the idea of Paris as a site of liberation.For centuries, people have attached various dreams to Paris. It is the capital of light, love, intellectualism, fashion, gastronomy, and revolution. Paris is also associated with freedom – whether sexual, social, intellectual, individual, or political. ...